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NCAA sues EA over likeness settlement
The NCAA has sued Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licensing Company over its proposed settlement with student athletes from late September, Bloomberg reported. The $40 million settlement was in regards to the use of student athlete likeness, an ongoin...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Nov 21 2013 14:30 GMT
The Empire Strikes A Deal: 10 Years Of EA Star Wars Games
Unless JJ Abrams does something so spectacular and most of all so charming with his Star Wars sequels that my 15 years of ennui towards the house that Lucas built then liberally daubed with some sort of turd-based paint, I can’t say I have any particul...
rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Nov 21 2013 08:00 GMT
EA Looking To Resume Command & Conquer At New Studio
The plot, it thickens – like an ultra-syrupy plot milkshake or a rail-thin wisp of a plot that’s been secretly lifting plot weights for plot months. A few weeks ago, EA announced that it had canceled EA Victory’s free-to-play Command & Conquer ...
bluesnews.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Nov 19 2013 12:00 GMT
Major Lasers – SWTOR: Galactic Starfighter Videofied
Did you know that there are ships in Star Wars? It’s true! I was under the impression that everyone just skywalked everywhere (I mean, why else would anybody name someone that?), but nope, space ships. They fire lasers, too – colorful bouquets of mol...
swtor.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Nov 18 2013 08:00 GMT
Let’s Fight: SimCity’s Cities Of Tomorrow Expansion Is Out
This might be the wrong crowd for this, but I thought the recent SimCity was a good game. I’m looking forward to playing the Cities of Tomorrow expansion. I’m glad it’s out today, and I like this intro trailer. Come on Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Want to...
en.wikipedia.org posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Nov 15 2013 17:00 GMT
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow breaks down future life
Here's the opening cinematic to upcoming expansion SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow, where every home is always online. Although the cities of tomorrow appear to be the same lot size as the SimCities of today, at least you can build it up vertically.
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Nov 05 2013 22:00 GMT
Madden Lawsuit Settlement Mails Out the Checks in Time for Next-Gen
Just in time for the next-gen release of Madden NFL 25, lo and behold, here's my check from the settlement of the ridiculous Madden 'monopoly' lawsuit—for $64.14, which is four cents less than what the game would cost, with tax, at any of the GameStops ...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2013 17:09 GMT
Titanfall PC Release Same As Xbox, No Windows 8
Today you may have felt a slight aftershock from a downright seismic shift over in console land. You know that Titanfall man/robo-shoot/parkour everyone (including yourself) can’t stop making enthusiastic word-gurgles about? Well, it’s no longer a ti...
titanfall.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 30 2013 13:00 GMT
Electronic Arts has budgeted $40 million to settle lawsuits brought by college football players agai
Electronic Arts has budgeted $40 million to settle lawsuits brought by college football players against its NCAA Football series, which EA Sports canceled last month. The publisher reported the figure to investors today. Though the settlement has yet to b...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Oct 29 2013 21:14 GMT
FIFA's digital revenue tops $145 million in first half of fiscal 2014
EA's FIFA series has generated over $145 million in digital net revenue in the first half of fiscal 2014, a period that stretched from April 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013. The news came from EA's Q2 2014 earnings report, and was derived on a non-GA...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Oct 29 2013 22:00 GMT
Defeat: EA Cancels Command & Conquer, Closes Victory
Well now, here’s a surprise. I knew some players weren’t altogether on board with EA’s latest Command & Conquer pseudo-reboot, but I had heard decent-ish things by and large. Apparently, however, the nay-screamers outnumbered the yea-sayers, be...
commandandconquer.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 29 2013 20:15 GMT
Date Worthy: The Sims 4 Due For Release Next Autumn
The Sims 4‘s big new feature is that your sims’ emotions unlock context-sensitve actions and change their abilities. That means, as an example, that depressed sims make better novelists. I am here today to confirm that being sleepy and hungry does no...
thesims.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 24 2013 16:00 GMT
Madden 25 title update to fix Ultimate Team issues and injury woes
The next patch for Madden NFL 25 is on the way, EA revealed in a blog post. The title update promises "improved stability" across all game modes and addresses a number of gameplay concerns had by players, such as the frequency of injuries and the ability...
easports.com posted by Joystiq Oct 24 2013 01:15 GMT
Titans Will Fall In Five Months’ Time
The more astute mathematicians among you will have calculated that this means Titanfall, aka What The Modern Warfare Creators Did Next, is due to arrive in March. March 11 for Americaland, March 13 for mainland Europe and March 14 for this e’er punishe...
rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 22 2013 16:16 GMT
Battlefield 4's Beta Ends, Glitchy GIFs Emerge
The Battlefield 4 beta is officially over, and DICE says the game is ready to launch on October 29. This limited period of time was more than enough for those who participated to capture hilarious moments and glitches and share them with us. Let's take a ...
battlefield.com posted by Kotaku Oct 18 2013 22:30 GMT
SimCity: Cities Of Tomorrow Pollutes For Fun And Profit
In case you hadn’t heard/forgot/suffered from such a severe case of apathy that you did the human brain equivalent of a driver rollback, SimCity is going to the future. Yeah, it’s still gonna be tethered to the Internet’s infinite, un-flinching tan...
rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 16 2013 19:00 GMT
SimCity walks through world of tomorrow
SimCity expansion "Cities of Tomorrow" will hold the foundations for future urban planners starting November 12. Here's Lead Designer Stone Librande giving a tour of the scientific discoveries your Sims will have access to for $30. That's the price of...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Oct 16 2013 07:30 GMT
FIFA 14 Patches And Deflates Its Foot-To-Balls
FIFA 14 came out last month, bringing with it the set of updates we’ve come to expect from the yearly foot-to-ball series: slower running, better balls, new types of kicking, some new names of millionaires, four new lines of commentary which don’t ma...
easports.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 14 2013 16:00 GMT
EA games 60% off on GOG this weekend
Over 33 games (some in bundles) from the Electronic Arts back catalog are on sale this weekend through GOG.com for $2.39 apiece, a 60 percent savings off the regular price. The sale includes classic franchises like Wing Commander, Ultima, Syndicate and P...
gog.com posted by Joystiq Oct 11 2013 19:30 GMT
Bjorn Is Back: Peggle 2 Footage
I missed the awkward moment when Peggle 2 was announced, and then there was the Xbone timed exclusivity thing. I should have been excited that there’s going to be more Peggle in the world, but I was mostly miffed. MIFFED! Mucho miffage is kind of my re...
popcap.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 10 2013 14:00 GMT
THQ May Be Dead, But It's Still Filing Lawsuits
THQ, which went out of business and was liquidated by the spring, still exists in enough of a form to sue the UFC and Electronic Arts, to whom THQ sold the UFC video game license in 2012.Read more...
bit.ly posted by Kotaku Oct 09 2013 23:30 GMT
Red Wing: SWTOR Gets Space Combat Expansion
Galactic Starfighter is SO the name of a videogame. Except it’s actually the name of expansion to a videogame, which I suppose is the same thing, albeit a subcategory thereof. Anyway, SWTOR steps into the spacebiff with “12v12 free flight combat”, w...
swtor.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 09 2013 09:00 GMT
The Chaos Of Battlefield 4 Looks Peaceful in Timelapse Video
Recorded and sped up on a PC, in spectator mode, YouTuber derbestefan's video shows a completely different Battlefield.Read more...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Oct 08 2013 13:20 GMT
SimCity developers exploring potential offline mode
EA Maxis revealed today that it is exploring the possibility of adding a long-requested offline mode to its city-building strategy game SimCity. "Right now we have a team specifically focused on exploring the possibility of an offline mode," Maxis Emeryv...
simcity.com posted by Joystiq Oct 04 2013 18:30 GMT
Need For Speed Rivals Sure Has Some Cars In It
The latest incarnation of Not Burnout Paradise 2 is Need For Speed Rivals, as Criterion continue to not quite make Burnout Paradise 2 in this other franchise. Announced in May, we’ve not checked in since, so here’s the latest footage to watch, feel h...
needforspeed.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 02 2013 14:00 GMT
If You Build It: Maxis Testing Waters On SimCity Modding
Believe it or not – despite EA and Maxis’ insistence on constant connection – SimCity has mods. Due to a lack of official tools, they’re not particularly elaborate, but people have managed to tinker around under the simplified simulation’s hunk...
simcity.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Oct 02 2013 08:00 GMT
PSA: Battlefield 4 beta starts today
The Battlefield 4 beta gets boots on the ground today on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC for the few, with the full rollout starting on Friday. Today's beta includes those who are Battlefield 3 Premium members, Battlefield 4 Digital Deluxe Edition pre-order partici...
battlelog.battlefield.com posted by Joystiq Oct 01 2013 22:00 GMT
NY Library Discovers Timothy Leary's Stash of Experimental Video Games
You may not remember that Timothy Leary, the psychologist renowned for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs and a key figure of the 1960s counterculture movement, dabbled in video games development in the 1980s. Now a trove of games discovered inside hundred...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Sep 28 2013 19:00 GMT
Report: EA to pay $40 million in student athlete settlement
Electronic Arts' settlement in the ongoing student athlete lawsuits dating back to 2009, filed yesterday, amounts to a $40 million, The New York Times reports. The settlement was announced after EA Sports GM of American Football Cam Weber revealed that t...
nytimes.com posted by Joystiq Sep 27 2013 20:00 GMT
No College Football Video Game Next Year, Says EA Sports
EA Sports will not publish any college football video game next year, the label said moments ago, citing ongoing litigation brought by current and former college players that threatens to change how all of big-time college sports does business.Read more.....
ea.com posted by Kotaku Sep 26 2013 20:15 GMT

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