Tag Archives: EA

South Korean Company Nexon to Bid on EA for Takeover

Accord to Joystiq, Nexon, the South Korean MMO company that created Maple Story is a pretty big player in the East. It's so big, it's thinking about and looking at possibilities of buying out a competitor from the West, Electronic Arts. Yes, THAT Electronic Arts. MK Business News, a South Korean newspaper, has reported that Nexon's Japanese headquarters spoke with EA about acquiring the company. However, it is unclear what the negotiations have come to. EA isn't saying anything according to all of its representatives.
But the bigger question is if this [...]

Server Rental Makes it Possible to Rent Out a Battlefield 3 Server

Being in random matches can be stressful. However, if you play Battlefield 3, then likely you don't have to worry about that from now on.
The reason why is because EA is renting out servers for your own personal use on the PS3, PC, and the Xbox 360. So that means you aren't going to be thrown into the middle of a battle where one sniper dominates the map or one lone wolf with a tank manages to squish you like a junebug over and over again. Now you can [...]

EA Brings Out a Remake of Hard Hitting NFL Blitz

So if you haven't heard the news, EA sports decided to remake another popular sports series (and personally one of my favorites), NFL Blitz. Yes sir, the sports arcade title that was responsible for my love of football and hard-hitting tackles is back and remade into a high-definition arcade downloadable game.
While there are a few new modes to the game like online Blitz Battles and an Elite league where you can create dream teams via collecting cards, the main mode everyone is looking forward to is Blitz Gauntlet, where you battle [...]

EA Sports Madden NFL 2012 Claims its Latest Victim
by Ryan Keeler

With the creation of John Madden Football video games in the early 1990s, it has since become a staple in NFL football gaming. Each year bettering itself from the previous, with new features and improving game play to say the least. The fact that this is one of those titles that fans line up to grab the first copies each season is overly understood in the gaming community, but not the only fun fact that attaches itself to this game year in and year out. A phenomenon that has been [...]

Controversy Over Similar Looking Logos Is Now Taken to Court

Electronic Arts, the video games publisher, is taking the fitness supplies company Energy Armor to court. The reason why? It's due to how Energy Armor's logo looks very similar to Electronic Arts' logo and also because their company advertises its products by using athletes (like Electronic Art's does with Madden and FIFA).
While I do believe the secondary reason for the court action lawsuit is absolutely ridiculous and should be thrown out (because if that was held true, Electronic Arts could sue about every company on the planet), they do have [...]

Worlds BestBattlefield 3 Players to Fight for $1.6 Million In Cash

If you think you're really good and have the skills to pay the bills, you probably could get a chunk of $1.6 million dollars. "How do I do this?" is likely what you are saying after reading that. Well it's simple. As Virgin Gaming is hosting a Battlefield 3 tournament where the top players will be snagging what they can from the $1.6 million money pot.
EA, DICE and Virgin are working together for a Battlefield 3 Worldwide Conquest Tournament(details can be found here) sometime in2012. Details are still a [...]

Analyst Predicts Good September due to Gears of War 3 and Madden releases

Mentioned here on The Escapist online magazine, Arvind Bhata, an financial analyst with Sterne Agee, stated that while July was probably one the worst months in the video game industry and August not looking too bright as well, September will be a large improvement with the release of big titles like Gears of War and Madden 2012.
Bhatia based these predictions due to no big releases in July/August and also that Electronic Arts had changed its release date of Madden (probably due to the recent overly long clash between [...]

Battlefield 3 fanbase raising the rivalry between EA and Activision

It's only been a few weeks since E3 wrapped up and already the fanbases of both games of Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 are standing their ground on which game will win this year's FPS rivalry. You see it in various forums, comments sections of gaming news sites like Kotaku and Digg's gaming section, and you even hear it on other games voice/text chat like Team Fortress 2 and Halo: Reach.
Now I'm a person who's usually on the fence when it comes to video games. I usually make my position [...]

Studio claims that Battlefield 3 is what FPS Gamers have been asking for.

In a recent interview with Playstation 3 magazine(found here on Gadgets and Gizmos), the head of Digital Illusions CE (DICE) Patrick Bach stated that every first-person shooter fan craves for their upcoming title, Battlefield 3. Bach went on to say it has everything that a FPS shooter should have, including vehicles and destruction.

Something I hear a lot from people who havent actually played Battlefield is that theyd love a modern day, first-person shooter with everything you have in other games, but with vehicles and proper destruction...they say, that [...]

EA's game vs Activision's game. The rivalry begins.

Jordan versus Bird, Holmes versus Moriarty, Aristotle versus Mashy Spike Plate, and now EA vs. Activision. It seems the two companies have a growing rivalry right now. According to G4, it seems that EA's CEO John Riccitiello is fired up about Battlefield 3 and it's tension with Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. In an interview with CNBC, he talk about the atmosphere between the two companies of being like the "Clash of the Titans". He added that while Call of Duty has an advantage in name-recognition, he says that he is [...]