Tag Archives: EA BlackBox

Thu, Nov 03, 2011 | 03:01 GMT

Multiplayer highlighted in NFS: The Run trailer

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Need for Speed: The Run’s multiplayer options include Autolog, the social network designed to ruin all your friendships.

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Fri, Oct 28, 2011 | 03:41 BST

Need for Speed: The Run trailer introduces The Lonely Boy

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At about the 53 second mark in this cinematic trailer for Need for Speed: The Run, you can count the protagonist’s pores.

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Tue, Sep 21, 2010 | 12:21 BST

Riccitiello: Need for Speed quality decline down to “death march” regime

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EA boss John Riccitiello has said the decline in quality in Need for Speed in recent years was down to developer BlackBox doing the series year in, year out, in a “death march regime”.

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Thu, Sep 09, 2010 | 14:48 BST

Need for Speed World reaches 1 million players

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EA’s announced Need for Speed World has reached 1 million users since its launch back in July.

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Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | 16:43 BST

Skate 3 demo now available from Xbox Live Marketplace

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EA’s put live the demo for Skate 3 on Xbox Live Marketplace.

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Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | 15:39 BST

EU PS Store update, April 15 – GTA IV, Sam and Max Season 3, Skate 3

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Want the good news first, PS3 kiddlewinks? If you have a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, you can get both episodes of DLC – The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony – on the PS Store from this week.

The bad news?

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Sun, Mar 28, 2010 | 16:27 BST

Skate 3 demo hitting PSN, Xbox Live on April 15

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EA’s casually announced the demo for Skate 3 will be released on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on April 15.

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Wed, Mar 17, 2010 | 15:46 GMT

Skate 3 hitting UK retail on May 14

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EA’s announced it’s releasing Skate 3 on the week beginning May 10 worldwide. It’ll release on May 11 in the US and May 14 in the UK.

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Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | 17:15 GMT

Skate 3 gets first dev diary

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EA’s released the first developers diary for Skate 3.

Get it below.

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Tue, Jan 26, 2010 | 14:05 GMT

CV shows EA BlackBox still working on third-person action game

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A CV from an EA staffer, by Superannuation, shows the company’s BlackBox studio is working on a third-person action game.

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Mon, Nov 09, 2009 | 21:07 GMT

Report – EA makes staff cuts in some studios

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According to a report by Kotaku, EA has cut loose a fair bit of it’s staff today from some of it’s studios.

It comes as the publisher today bought social games firm Playfish for $300 million.

The studios affected include Tiburon and BlackBox, as well as Mythic and EA’s Redwood studio from their QA department.

We’ll leave EA an email, and see what they say.