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• Need for Speed: The Run trailer introduces The Lonely Boy

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

• Riccitiello: Need for Speed quality decline down to "death march" regime

  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”.

• Need for Speed World reaches 1 million players

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

• Skate 3 demo now available from Xbox Live Marketplace

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

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

  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?

• Skate 3 demo hitting PSN, Xbox Live on April 15

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

• Skate 3 hitting UK retail on May 14

  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.

• Skate 3 gets first dev diary

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

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

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

• Report - EA makes staff cuts in some studios

  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. […]