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Need for Speed: Undercover Review: You're Not Good, and You're Not Bad [Review]

Need for Speed: Undercover Review: You're Not Good, and You're Not Bad [Review]

Scowly antiheroes and sexy, cleavage-packed molls return in live-action cutscenes for Need for Speed: Undercover, the sixth installment of the series since the franchise was reimagined in 2003 and taken underground. Following last year’s disappointing Need for Speed: ProStreet, Black Box and EA went... Read more

EA Kills Blueprint, Plans More Boom Blox [Electronic Arts]

EA Kills Blueprint, Plans More Boom Blox [Electronic Arts]

Electronic Arts' mysterious Blueprint division is no more, according to a report from Variety. Formerly lead by EA LA vet Neil Young, the shrouded-in-secrecy project was reportedly established to create lower cost content with smaller teams based on original intellectual property. One of those unnamed... Read more

Mirror's Edge "Wanted" Posters Pop Up At Universities [Viral Marketing]

Mirror's Edge "Wanted" Posters Pop Up At Universities [Viral Marketing]

Electronic Arts is giving Mirror's Edge viral marketing the old college try, with "wanted" posters for the game's protagonist Faith popping up at at least one college campus, the University of Southern California. Yes, we've definitely seen this tactic before — and arguably done a little better... Read more

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Nov 11 NFL Retirees Win $28M in Madden Lawsuit [Madden]

NFL Retirees Win $28M in Madden Lawsuit [Madden]

Retired National Football League players have won a $28 million verdict against the NFL's players union, in a federal lawsuit alleging they were cheated by a sweetheart deal the union struck with Electronic...

Nov 6 Electronic Arts Ditches Casual Label, Merges It With The Sims [News]

Electronic Arts Ditches Casual Label, Merges It With The Sims [News]

Electronic Arts is closing their Casual Label, merging it and their Hasbro partnership with The Sims Label, Electronic Arts confirmed to Kotaku this morning.
The publisher also confirmed the departure...

Nov 4 EA's Awesome Fix For Missing Red Alert 3 CD Key Characters [Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]

EA's Awesome Fix For Missing Red Alert 3 CD Key Characters [Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]

According to the Command & Conquer customer support team, a "small number of [Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3] manuals" suffered from an unfortunate misprint. Some owners of the Windows PC version are finding...

Oct 30 Electronic Arts Laysoff Six Hundred [Disturbance In The Workforce]

Electronic Arts Laysoff Six Hundred [Disturbance In The Workforce]

Word hit today through the grapevine that "massive" layoffs had hit at Electronic Arts. Initially we heard as much as 20 percent of the staff has been let go, but a quick check with Electronic Arts confirm...

Oct 30 Electronic Arts Lays Off Six Hundred [Disturbance In The Workforce]

Electronic Arts Lays Off Six Hundred [Disturbance In The Workforce]

Word hit today through the grapevine that "massive" layoffs had hit at Electronic Arts. Initially we heard as much as 20 percent of the staff has been let go, but a quick check with Electronic Arts confirm...

Nov 9 EA Hit with Two New Anti-DRM Class Action Suits [Lawsuit]

Nov 7 EA Cuts Leave Indie Dev Scrambling for Work [Cutbacks]

Nov 4 Quantum of Solace Shows Off Watermelon Killing [Clips]

Oct 3 Nerf N Strike Trailer [Nerf-N-strike]

Sep 22 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Calls Out Starcraft [Viral Marketing]

Sep 21 Armature Founders on the 'Unsustainable' Business Model [Armature Studio]

Sep 19 EA Respond To DRM Complaints [Electronic Arts]

Sep 19 Mass Effect Movie Optioned [Rumor]

Sep 15 EA Take-Two: The Wedding's Off [Electronic Arts]

Sep 13 New Skate It Trailer [Skate It]

Nov 25 2009 IGF Reminds Entrants Of Student Showcase, IGF Mobile Deadlines

2009 IGF Reminds Entrants Of Student Showcase, IGF Mobile Deadlines

[Just a final reminder for the IGF student and mobile competitions for 2009, which are finishing up this weekend and Monday respectively - good luck to all the entrants, both competitions have had some...

Nov 23 The 'Gamer Guilt' and Morality of Fable 2 [Game Design]

The 'Gamer Guilt' and Morality of Fable 2 [Game Design]

David Nieborg has a thoughtful essay up over at Valuable Games on the subject of Fable 2 and its moral system — and the relative success (or not) of that system. As Nieborg points out, it would...

Nov 23 ECA Boss Says Joe Lieberman is "Misunderstood" [Hal Halpin]

ECA Boss Says Joe Lieberman is "Misunderstood" [Hal Halpin]

In a wide-ranging interview with Crispy Gamer, Hal Halpin, the president of the Entertainment Consumers Association, calls Senator and gamers' preferred punching bag Joe Lieberman "largely misunderstood...

Nov 23 Cliff Huxtable Announces New Grand Theft Auto SKU? [Flith Flarn Flarn Filth Flarn]

Cliff Huxtable Announces New Grand Theft Auto SKU? [Flith Flarn Flarn Filth Flarn]

[sarcasm] Speaking in Greenwood, Miss., noted games industry insider Bill Cosby announced a new version of Grand Theft Auto IV. This one apparently costs $250 and has some extras, and not a key to Liberty...

Nov 23 'To Do: Finish Any Game' [Game Design]

'To Do: Finish Any Game' [Game Design]

Tom Endo has a nice essay up over the Escapist on the issue of finishing games (or not finishing games, as the case may be). "What other medium," he queries, "allows us to be so blithely indifferent to...

Nov 22 [Updated] Gold Lancer Removed; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

[Updated] Gold Lancer Removed; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

OK, gang. I think the fun is over. Many of you pointed out that the Golden Lancer for Gears of War 2 is now either 99999 points or won't download. I tried to cue it up again and got the can't-download...

Nov 22 [Updated] Gold Lancer Removed, Revoked; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

[Updated] Gold Lancer Removed, Revoked; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

OK, gang. I think the fun is over. Many of you pointed out that the Golden Lancer for Gears of War 2 is now either 99999 points or won't download. I tried to cue it up again and got the can't-download...

Nov 22 [Updated] Free Golden Lancer Joins Early Banjo, CoD:WaW Extras in XBL Lootathon [Banjo Kazooie]

[Updated] Free Golden Lancer Joins Early Banjo, CoD:WaW Extras in XBL Lootathon [Banjo Kazooie]

This is big enough to warrant an update I think. Reader Shawn B. found, in the great Xbox Live Loot Bonanza, that you can in fact get your gold plated Gears of War 2 Lancer, for free, off XBL via the web...

Nov 22 CFP/Scholarship Application: Foundations of Digital Games '09 [Call For Papers]

CFP/Scholarship Application: Foundations of Digital Games '09 [Call For Papers]

I spoke to Professor Jim Whitehead of UC Santa Cruz yesterday, and at the end of our conversation he brought up the 2009 Foundations of Digital Games conference. FDG will run from 26 - 30 April, 2009...

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Nov 23 The 2D/3D Quandary [Game Design]

Nov 23 Wanted: Weapons of Fate (PS3, Xbox 360)

Nov 23 [Sponsored]

Nov 23 Wanted: Weapons of Fate Debut Trailer [Movie Adaptations]

Nov 23 Batman: Arkham Asylum Debut Teaser [Guilty By Reason Of Insanity]

Nov 23 [Sponsored]

Nov 22 MIGS Keynote: A Broken Business Model [Industry]

Nov 22 Weekend Destructainment: The real Bike Hero

Nov 22 On the LOC Preserving Virtual Worlds Project [History Is Fun!]

Nov 22 Disjunctive Play and Otherness: Between [Game Design]

Nov 22 Editorial Calls for Aggressive Obama Intervention in Growing Games Industry [Updated] [Bad Idea Jeans]

Nov 22 Editorial Calls for Aggressive, Obama-Led Regulation of Used Game Sales []

Nov 22 Holiday Game Shopping

Nov 22 Giant Online Revenue Falls, Still Rockin' the Chinese Market [Only In China]

Nov 22 [Sponsored]