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Entries for July 20th, 2010

What else EA announced — Fight Night Champion, mystery football game, and more

EA’s annual summer showcase is a wrap down in Redwood Shores, CA (or at least at the phase where there’s no more news coming out of it). Here’s a roundup of the tidbits not quite big enough for their own news story.

Fight Night Champion — We almost broke this out as its own story, but [...]

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GamePro’s September cover is Alice: Madness Returns

EA may have just given the world its first glimpse of the returning Alice, but GamePro got an even deeper look at the long-awaited sequel. Read on to get a look at the cover of the September issue, featuring Alice: Madness Returns, as well as a preview of the other content you’ll find in [...]

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EA announces 10 mobile games for iPhone, iPad, Droid, DSiWare and even JAVA

As part of the company’s summer showcase, EA has unveiled almost a dozen new portable games, most of which are headed to Apple’s mobile platform, though a few are due for other devices like the Nintendo DSi, Droid, and even older mobile phones. Read on for the full list.
Here’s the list of EA’s mobile slate, [...]

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The Sims 3 gets Late Night expansion — no, not the TV show

With EA’s annual summer showcase underway down in Redwood Shores, CA, we’re getting bombarded with press releases. One of the first to cross our desk is an announcement for a new expansion pack in the Sims franchise: The Sims 3 Late Night.
The press release tells us that the new expansion introduces a downtown to the [...]

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EA parks Need for Speed World’s release next to StarCraft II

Activision Blizzard’s biggest new release since World of Warcraft won’t be without competition on July 27, as EA has announced that the microtranaction-based MMO racer Need for Speed World will pull out of the pit on that day. Read on for more launch details.

On the surface, the launch of an experimental racing game concept alongside [...]

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Red Dead Redemption, Assassin’s Creed, and other Xbox 360 games on sale today on Amazon

Online retail giant Amazon.com has selected the Xbox 360 as the theme for today’s Gold Box, in which a variety of undisclosed games are put on sale for one to three hour intervals, with only slight hints provided for upcoming deals. Red Dead Redemption is the current title on sale, and we’re trying our best [...]

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Kinect pricing revealed: $150 for unit & game, $300 for unit, game, & 4GB Xbox 360

Microsoft has revealed the launch pricing for its upcoming Kinect motion-control peripheral. Current Xbox owners will be able to score the Kinect and Kinect Adventures for $150, while the initiated will be able to purchase the aforementioned bundle with a newly-introduced 4GB model of the system for $300. More information about the pricing and the [...]

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Daily (Stale) Bread: The news we didn’t post on July 19, 2010

The news day was filled with standard announcements and hype for future events like Comic-Con, but a few other stories managed to make their way into our collective subconscious. Said stories have now manifested in today’s daily stale bread.
07/19 — Incepted
Hideo Kojima Working With 5pb. CEO On New Adventure GameAJ: Lots of stuff coming from [...]

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Gravity Crash and Total War developers score new odd and large projects

Over the past week, two separate occasions of notable developers announcing ambitious new projects have popped up. The team behind Gravity Crash is being tasked with bringing back the long-dormant Oddworld franchise, while the developers of Total War are working with Sega on the publisher’s largest-budget U.S. development ever.
Just Add Water has been working with [...]

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PAX Prime 3-Day badges sold out, Warren Spector gets the keynote

We’re still about two months out from PAX Prime 2010 in Seattle, but already the show is sold out of three-day passes. To keep things interesting, and maybe to offload the remaining one-day passes, the official PAX Twitter account has more news: Warren Spector is their keynote speaker.

Warren Spector at E3 with AJ Glasser (right) [...]

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