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23 hrs ago | 411mania.com

Amazon Madden 25 Limited Edition Comes with Sunday Ticket

Madden NFL 25 will have a special edition available only from Amazon . The edition, which will cost $99.99, will come with a one-year subscription to the DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket, letting fans watch all out-of-market NFL games during the season.

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Related Topix: Madden NFL 25, Video Games, EA Sports

Yesterday | Canada Online Explorer

EA opens 'Star Wars' studio in L.A.

Swedish studio and Battlefield developer DICE is preparing to start work on the Star Wars franchise with a new branch recruiting in Los Angeles, its focus fixed upon the creation of tie-in titles.

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Related Topix: LucasArts, Star Wars, Video Games, BioWare, Mass Effect, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Activision, Call of Duty , Los Angeles County, CA

Yesterday | WorthPlaying

'The Sims 3 Island Paradise' - New Screens & Trailer

From owning and managing a resort, to living a life on a houseboat and even deep sea diving, The Sims 3 Island Paradise opens up a world of possibilities never seen in the franchise.

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Related Topix: The Sims 3: Island Paradise, Video Games, The Sims Studio

Yesterday | The Escapist

Activision Market Share Approaches 20 Percent in 2012, While EA Slides

Measuring market share is a bit of a dicey business, because services that measure such things look only at sales of boxed games through conventional retail channels.

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Related Topix: Activision, Call of Duty , Video Games, 2012, Gliese Games, Medal of Honor, The, Deep Silver, Need for Speed

Yesterday | BBC News

EA stops making games for Wii U

The news comes as a blow to Nintendo on the day that it is due to unveil a fresh marketing strategy to boost interest in the Wii U. EA revealed in an interview with tech news site Kotaku that it had halted work on Wii U games.

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Related Topix: Nintendo, Wii U, Video Games, The, Deep Silver, BioWare, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3, Criterion Games, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Madden, EA Tiburon, EA Sports

Yesterday | Joystiq

SimCity 'Amusement Park Pack' rides in May 28

SimCity 's "Amusement Park Pack," which leaked like oil out of a tea cup ride a tad early, has been confirmed to arrive in two weeks by developer Maxis.

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Related Topix: Maxis, SimCity, Video Games

Thu May 16, 2013

QJ.net

Study: Companies are Overestimating Game Piracy

Video game piracy is a problem, but just how big is it? According to a newly released study, it's not quite as bad as some companies make it out to be.

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Related Topix: Need for Speed, Video Games, EA Games, Create

Forbes.com

Surrendering the (Online) Pass: What Next For EA On First Sale?

My colleague Paul Tassi, reporting on EA's abandoning of the Online Pass system, first confirmed to VentureBeat , sees it as a progressive step intended to begin the healing in the aftermath of two "Worst Company of the Year" awards, and speculates on what might happen next: Completely DRM free games? Elimination of Origin and conversion to Steam? ... (more)

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Related Topix: BioWare, Video Games, Mass Effect, Dead Space, Battlefield!, LucasArts, Star Wars

Cinema Blend News

Blackberry And EA Join Forces For SimCity Deluxe, Plants Vs Zombies

If you didn't already know, EA's mobile division has been a strong focus for the company as of late.

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Related Topix: Maxis, SimCity, Video Games

AutoWeek

Next installment gets bigger, faster, more sociala

It's getting harder to tell real life from simulation, as this in-game screenshot of Gran Turismo 6 demonstrates.

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Related Topix: Polyphony Digital, Gran Turismo, SCEA, Video Games, Gran Turismo 6, They, Need for Speed, The, _No Company, Deep Silver

The Code Project

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer

Battlelog servers were down for almost 4 days due to DDOS attack, The funny thing is there are millions of players and Battlelog tracks every single bullet fired, means the service itself is handling the kind of DDOS attack, and someone still managed to take it down.

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Related Topix: Battlefield!, Video Games, Battlefield 3, EA DICE

KLZZ-FM Saint Cloud

New Video Game Releases - June 2013

The new video game releases for June 2013 are shaping up quite nicely. Not only are we getting the Legendary Edition of Skyrim, but we're also seeing the release of two insanely anticipated games.

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Related Topix: Game., Video Games, Capcom, Remember Me, DONTNOD Entertainment, Deus Ex, Eidos Montreal, Square Enix, Ride to Hell, The Sims, Deep Silver, The Sims Studio, SCEA, Naughty Dog, Uncharted

Examiner.com

EA abandoning its online pass program

"Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass," said John Reseburg, EA's senior director of corporate communication.

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Related Topix: BioWare, Video Games, Mass Effect, Madden, EA Tiburon, EA Sports, Madden NFL, Battlefield!, Battlefield 3, EA DICE, Ubisoft, Driver

Wed May 15, 2013

TheStreet.com

10 ASCO '13 Abstracts You Can Read Right Now

That's what a lot of healthcare investors are doing right now on the web site of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine, NHL, Video Games, EA Sports, Lymphoma, Pharmacology

Blue's News

Op Ed

Warren Spector - Why Metacritic Should Be Irrelevant . The fact is, few of us will ever approach that Platonic ideal of art, commerce and critical acclaim achieved in equal measures.

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Related Topix: BioWare, Video Games, Mass Effect, Opinion

BroadwayWorld.com

CeeLo Green Among Presenters for 2013 Billboard Music Awards

In addition to the fully Loaded roster of talent slated to perform at "The 2013 Billboard Music Awards," Cee-Lo Green, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Kelly Rowland, Hayden Panettiere, Kid Rock, Chloe Grace Moretz, Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Carly Rae Jepsen, Alyssa Milano, Jenny McCarthy, Emmy Rossum, Stana Katic, Gabriel Mann, Jennifer Nettles, PSY, Sky Blu, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Georgia, NHL, Video Games, EA Sports, Dance, Pop/Rock, Madonna

Joystiq

PS Plus Europe explores Amalur, Demon's Souls, Ico/SotC in June

European PlayStation Plus subscribers have plenty to keep themselves busy with when the rain inevitably lashes down on Wimbledon next month.

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Related Topix: Tecmo, Dead or Alive, Team Ninja, Kingdoms of Amalur, Grasshopper Manufacture, Sine Mora, UBlart Montpellier, Ubisoft, Kalypso, Rayman Origins, FuturLab, Coconut Dodge

Austin American Statesman

Digital Savant: New PS3 game 'Dust 514' connects to 'EVE Online'

"Dust 514." - An extension of the long-running "EVE Online" massively multiplayer game, this first-person shooter arrives as a free-to-play title exclusively for the PlayStation 3. Mercenaries in the game battle for supremacy in 32-player matches.

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Related Topix: Pandemic Studios, Metro, EVE Online, THQ, Atari, CCP, Mercenaries, 4A Games, Video Games, The, Deep Silver, Her Interactive, Nancy Drew

WorthPlaying

'Star Wars: The Old Republic' v2.1 Update Adds New Species, Customization

Star Wars: The Old Republic will let you explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader when war between the Old Republic and the Sith Empire divides the galaxy.

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Related Topix: LucasArts, Star Wars, Video Games, BioWare, Star Wars: The Old Republic

Tue May 14, 2013

Engadget

Battlefield 4's Frostbite 3 game engine goes mobile in 'Frostbite Go'

It appears that while EA's making claims that its Frostbite 3 game engine can't run on Nintendo's Wii U , the game publisher is also working on bringing "true Frostbite experiences to all major mobile platforms." The Frostbite website details the initiative as "Frostbite Go," and calls it "one of our most exciting current projects." Without ... (more)

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Related Topix: Battlefield 4, Video Games, EA DICE