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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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

"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.

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.

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)