Tag Archives: Patrick Soderlund
Sat, Jun 15, 2013 | 14:35 BST
Visceral “working on something very exciting,” Dead Space franchise “isn’t cancelled”
EA games label EVP Patrick Söderlund has said the Dead Space franchise hasn’t be cancelled, as a March report stated, but then again Visceral Games isn’t working on Dead Space 4 at the moment either.
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Posted in: Development, E3 2013, EA
Tags: Dead Space franchise, Patrick Soderlund, visceral games
Thu, Jun 13, 2013 | 22:51 BST
Star Wars: Battlefront is not Battlefront 3
The DICE-developed Star Wars game isn’t a sequel to previous games in the series – it’s something new.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS4, Shooter, Xbox One
Tags: dice, Patrick Soderlund, Star Wars Battlefront
Thu, Jun 13, 2013 | 22:46 BST
Medal of Honor dev Danger Close “doesn’t exist any more”
Medal of Honor developer Danger Close has been disbanded, EA has confirmed, with DICE LA taking its place and serving a support role for the main Swedish studio.
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Posted in: EA, Trade
Tags: Danger Close Games, DICE LA, Patrick Soderlund
Wed, Jun 12, 2013 | 23:46 BST
Titanfall PlayStation release possible, says dev, but execs demur
Respawn Entertainment wants “to make everybody happy”, and hasn’t ruled out the possibility of bringing Titanfall to PlayStation platforms. EA, on the other hand, is diplomatically cagey on the subject.
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Posted in: PC, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tags: frank gibeau, Joel Emslie, Patrick Soderlund, Respawn Entertainment, Titanfall
Wed, Jun 12, 2013 | 02:06 BST
Battlefield 3 “looked a little bit too much” to Call of Duty
Battlefield 3 was good, but it might have been better if DICE hadn’t been so conscious of Call of Duty, studio boss Patrick Soderlund has admitted
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: battlefield 3, battlefield 4, dice, Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Nov 20, 2012 | 15:29 GMT
EA doesn’t want DICE to become “a Battlefield factory,” says Soderlund
EA Games vice-president Patrick Soderlund has said DICE is working on more than just Battlefield games at the Stockholm studio.
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Posted in: EA
Tags: battlefield, battlefield 3, dice, Patrick Soderlund
Wed, Oct 03, 2012 | 15:21 BST
EA’s Soderlund: “The day we stop doing new IP is the day we put ourselves on life support”
EA Europe’s label boss Patrick Soderlund has said the firm is “innovative” despite criticisms to the contrary, and cited Battlefield 3 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted as two such examples of the firm’s commitment to innovation.
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Posted in: Development, EA
Tags: Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 | 22:16 BST
Physical retail could disappear in 10 years, maybe sooner, says EA’s Soderlund
Patrick Soderlund, executive vice president of EA Games, believes boxed games will commercially go the way of the dinosaur within 10 years as digital becomes the norm.
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Posted in: EA, Retail
Tags: Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 | 12:46 BST
EA to publishers: ‘Don’t be afraid of change’
EA’s Patrick Soderlund has revealed to CVG that publishers need to deliver consistent quality over existing and new formats or they risk becoming irrelevant, as well embracing new ideas in the industry.
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Posted in: EA
Tags: Patrick Soderlund
Fri, Jun 29, 2012 | 18:10 BST
EA – over 800,000 have signed up for Battlefield Premium
EA Games chief Patrick Soderlund has told USA Today that over 800,000 people signed up for its Battlefield Premium Service during its first two weeks of availability. “We are very pleased with the performance so far,” said Soderlund. “We’re actually only two weeks into it, so it’s a little early to tell how this is going to pay off. It certainly it looks very promising right now.” Soderlund also said EA’s looking for ways ti implement the service into other products, echoing recent remarks made by labels boss Frank Gibeau.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Battlefield Premium, Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Jun 19, 2012 | 05:28 BST
EA’s Soderlund: Frostbite 2 “built for the next generation”
Former DICE CEO turned EA Games boss Patrick Soderlund has said the engine powering Battlefield 3 and Medal of Honor: Warfighter aspires to tech well beyond what consumers have on hand right now.
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Posted in: Development, EA, Shooter
Tags: frostbite, Frostbite 2, frostbite 2.0, Frostbite Engine, Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Mar 13, 2012 | 15:12 GMT
EA looking into sub models which “maximize” investments, get more people playing
EA Games label head Patrick Soderlund has told VentureBeat it’s “fair to say” the firm is looking at a subscription models similar to Call of Duty Elite, and how the firm can “maximize” its investments while getting more peopl playing its products.
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Posted in: Development, EA, GDC 2012, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Patrick Soderlund
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 | 14:28 GMT
EA confident BF3 DLC will retain players despite impending MW3 release
EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund is confident the firm’s content plans will keep gamers interested in Battlefield 3, even with the deluge of titles releasing over the holidays.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: battlefield 3, Battlefield 3 multiplayer, bf3, dice, modern warfare 3, Patrick Soderlund
Wed, Jul 06, 2011 | 15:04 BST
Soderlund hints at new Mirror’s Edge-related project
EA Games Europe VP Patrick Soderlund has reiterated that the company has not given up on Mirror’s Edge, but also hinted its also back at work on something related to the IP.
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Posted in: Action
Tags: dice, mirror's edge, mirror's edge 2, Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 | 13:46 BST
“As of now,” DICE doesn’t have plans to release mod tools for Battlefield 3
EA Europe VP Patrick Söderlund has said DICE doesn’t currently have plans to add modding tools to Battlefield 3, as it thinks the Frostbite 2 engine will make modding “too big a of a challenge” for people.
Tue, Feb 15, 2011 | 06:19 GMT
Report – Mirror’s Edge 2 on hold, EA won’t comment
According to a machine-translated report, EA has placed Mirror’s Edge 2 on hold.
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Posted in: Action, EA, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: dice, mirror's edge, mirror's edge 2, Patrick Soderlund
Tue, Nov 23, 2010 | 16:51 GMT
Gran Turismo’s a “sterile, almost car collecting type of product,” says EA’s Soderlund
EA’s senior VP Patrick Soderlund is of the belief the Shift franchise can “absolutely beat” Sony’s Gran Turismo series due to the former’s “authentic driving experience”.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, Racing, Xbox 360
Tags: need for speed, Need for Speed: Shift, Patrick Soderlund, Shift 2, Slightly Mad Studios
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:26 GMT
Soderlund: Crysis and BFBC2 look just as good through OnLive as “the highest end PC”
EA senior VP Patrick Soderlund has seen how games like Crysis and Bad Company 2 look using OnLive, and he feels the games look “exactly like they would” on the “highest end PC”.
Tue, Nov 02, 2010 | 18:26 GMT
Information on Battlefield 1943 for PC coming “in the not so distant future”
EA has said information on the PC version of Battlefield 1943 will be coming in “the not too distant future”.
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Posted in: Development, EA, PC, Shooter
Tags: battlefield 1943, digital illusions, Patrick Soderlund, vaporware
Tue, Nov 02, 2010 | 18:51 GMT
EA’s Soderlund: Medal of Honor “didn’t meet our quality expectations”
EA Games VP Patrick Soderlund has told EG the recently-released Medal of Honor did not live up to the publisher’s “quality expectations”.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Danger Close, dice, medal of honor, Patrick Soderlund
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