The chances of this not happening were very slim - EA have announced a FIFA World Cup Football game to coincide with the largest sporting event happening this summer in South Africa.
EA are promising more than just an official World Cup tournament mode by fine tuning many aspects of the gameplay from the already excellent FIFA 10. Stay tuned for more news and videos of this soon, in the mean time you can check the press release after the jump.
Another hole in one for Tiger Woods (recently of course he has had many!). EA have confirmed that ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online‘ is still coming as well as ‘Tiger Woods 11‘ for all home consoles shipping in June.
Ready for some more new footage from Gamescom? Good, as next up is ‘Need For Speed: nitro’ from the clutches of juggernaught EA.
We can’t help but think Burnout when we watch it, which is no bad thing of course! Tuck in.
Are you looking forward to EA’s ‘Dead Space: Extraction‘? Want to know more about it? Then get your eyes glued to the video where developers will explain more about the story, just for you!
It looks like after a very slow start with the Wii, EA are starting to get to grips with the console and make some quality games. ‘EA Sports Active’, ‘Tiger Woods 10′, ‘Dead Space: Extraction’, ‘Bloom Blox’ are just a few examples and now the publishing giants aim to continue their good run with ‘Need For Speed: Nitro’ for Wii and DS - out November 17th worldwide.
Hit the link for press release or check out a trailer here.
NPD data for June 2009 show sales of the Wii MotionPlus add-on in North America have come mainly from the ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10‘ game bundle of which 205,000 from the 374,000 total sold were part of. That means 164,000 of the $20 peripheral were sold on their own.
This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise seeing as Tiger is the best Wii MotionPlus enabled game out there and a solid EA franchise, however with the launch of Wii Sports Resort we imagine sales of the add-on will be boosted at a much higher rate than Tiger can achieve.
The excellent golf game sold a total 272,400 copies and only 67,400 of those were for the game on its own.
Peter Moore has worked his magic at EA since arriving from Microsoft over a year ago. Many of EA Sports annual updates were becoming stagnant and not really moving forward, they were losing their way a little.
Moore has managed to rectify that and bought a fresh approach to FIFA, Tiger Woods, Madden and Grand Slam Tennis with new art direction, All-Star play and Wii MotionPlus support to name a few changes.
In a recent interview, the likeable executive had a few things to say about the Wii and their success so far on the console.
Those of you into shooters should be keeping a close eye on EA’s upcoming ‘Dead Space: Extraction’. The game has been built from the ground up for Wii and credit must go to the developers for some neat new features, like twisting the wiimote to use the secondary fire on each weapon and in co-op mode where one player is solving a puzzle while the other player holds off the alien attacks.
The game’s looking good in the graphics department too and we reckon Dead Space will give Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles a good run for its money when released later this year.
Michael Pachter from Wedbush Morgan Securities and his humongous report on gaming have thrown up the top gaming brands in 2008 from all publishers.
Topping the list not surprisingly is ‘Guitar Hero‘ at a whopping $992 million revenue, helped on no doubt by the high price of the guitar that comes with the game. In second is ‘Mario Bros.’ quite a way behind at $761 million and in third is ‘Rock Band‘ at $662 million. With ‘Guitar Hero 5‘ and ‘The Beatles: Rock Band‘ both out this year, music games could well take the two top spots for 2009.
I don’t think too much will surprise you on the list but we thought ‘Warcraft‘ would have charted higher than 17 (even though it is old) and we’re more sad than surprised about Petz making number 30!
Hit the link for the full list.
We’ve got new images of everyone’s favourite wizard called Harry. ‘Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’ follows the storyline of the book and upcoming film of the same name.
Ron, Harry and Hermione will be casting spells, playing Quidditch and duelling nce again in the latest Wii outing which has received very good feedback from E3.
EA have managed a much more seamless experience this time round with no loading times and a much more detailed game world tied together with cut-scenes and in-game cinematics.
Head inside for more screenshots.
We bet you’ve been waiting anxiously for trailers of some mini-game’s in EA’s new Tiger Woods 10 haven’t you? Well if not how about a video of the character creation options? Oh, yeah no we’re talking!
Well you are in luck daddy-o as we have not one, not two, not three but four videos of these exciting bits of the game in action.
Head inside to check them.
Today marks the day that the first Wii MotionPlus enabled game hits the shelves. In the U.S. anyway.
EA’s ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10′ and ‘Grand Slam Tennis’ are now available with enhanced one-to-one motion control that will set the bar for sports games of the future and accuarcy previously unseen in a videogame so far.
Grand Slam Tennis is out in Europe June 12th and Tiger Woods follows July 12th, both bundled with the Wii MotionPlus peripheral.
Full press releases from EA are inside.
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