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EA SVP of global e-commerce David DeMartini has raised the possibility that new service Origin, currently exclusively for EA games, could help support other publishers.

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EA isn’t trying to muscle out Steam, Origin head David DeMartini has said, and offered some explanation for the recent withdrawal of EA games from Valve’s service.

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If you’re expect a full-out bloody war between new EA storefront Origin and Steam, it’s probably not going to happen.

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Former EA Partners head David DeMartini has passed the torch on, as the label expands to enfold both Angry Birds publisher Chillingo and casual portal PlayFish.

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Two job listings posted for Respawn Entertainment has the firm hiring for a multiplatform game in development.

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Ziltch. Zero. 0. Get that?

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EA Partners boss David DeMartini has told Eurogamer the firm’s new title with Insomniac Games is being given an aim of 90 on MetaCritic.

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EA Partners GM David DeMartini has said game budgets have peaked. Say goodbye to that $100 million, chap.

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Cologne’s so last week, darlin’. It’s all Tokyo from here on out.

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EA Partners boss David DeMartini’s said his label is in talks with Valve about publishing Portal 2.

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EA Partners boss David DeMartini has said it’ll be a while before we can expect anything from Respawn.

In fact, the developer’s debut is further off than what Insomniac are working on for the publisher.

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EA Partners boss David DeMartini has expressed sympathy for the staff of Realtime Worlds, although he claims the publisher anticipated the mediocre review scores of APB.

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EA Partners General Manager David DeMartini has told CVG that the introduction of a similar scheme from THQ is “great” for the industry, but warns success won’t “happen overnight”.

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Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price has told VG247 that the studio was in talks with many other publishers over its upcoming third-party deal before settling with EA Partners.

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It’s not every day someone says, “Insomniac’s Ted Price is on the line”. But then it’s not every day a studio with Insomniac’s sheer weight – the outfit has sold over 35 million games for PlayStation hardware – decides to move away from a superglue relationship with Sony to develop a multi-format title with EA.

“Insomniac is making a 360 game” are words few people ever thought would be true. But true they are, and EA Partners GM David DeMartini is thrilled. Price’s 16 year-old studio is one of the most successful in the world, with benchmark properties such as Ratchet & Clank and Resistance a backbone of Sony’s first-party offering since time immemorial. The developer has only ever released PlayStation products.

Price and DeMartini outlined their shock deal to us on the phone last night, with Price saying he can’t wait to get “Xbox 360 fans excited about” his new, EA-published Insomniac “universe”, and explaining why a brand so massively “PlayStation” felt the need to bat for the other side.

[Interview by Patrick Garratt]

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EA Partners has signed Insomniac Games for the developer’s first multi-platform title ever. That’s right: Insomniac’s creating a 360 game.

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EA Partners boss David DeMartini has said that the development of the PS3 port of The Orange Box was a “challenge situation”.

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Let’s go. EA Partners boss David DeMartini has told VG247 that we can expect more pre-E3 “shots” that show the publisher is aiming heavy guns at the core category, and that Activision has “blown up” Infinity Ward’s creative talent.

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I saw the world premiere of Crysis 2 in the city of the sequel’s setting, New York, earlier this week. Here’s what happened. I think.

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Crysis on consoles was a big obvious, right? And it never happened, right? EA Partners group general manager David Demartini has told Gama console gamers had to wait for the second game thanks to Crytek’s “discipline”.

“Crytek has shown a tremendous amount of discipline, because the simple thing would’ve been to make… compromises and put it on PS3 and 360 before it was industry standard-setting,” said the exec.

“But as a company they have a reputation for not going to a platform just to exploit the platform, but they go to the platform when they have something that’s as good as anything in the industry, if not the best on that platform, so I think what consumers can look forward to is them setting a new bar against any game whatsoever on those platforms.”

Crysis 2 was announced as a cross-platform title at E3. Hit the link to see Cevat Yerli say PS3′s “difficult to program”.