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Is There a New Populous Game in Development? And is Insomniac Working on a Game Called Outernauts?

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:30:00 EST

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Some patent and resume digging by French site HardGamers has uncovered the very real possibility that Electronic Arts is bringing back from the dead one of its most treasured old properties: Populous. More »

Jamil Moledina Bets on a Platform-Free Gaming Future with Funzio

Mike Fahey — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:30:00 EST

Some believe the future of video games lies in the web-based streaming of triple A titles. Others feel that game consoles and PCs will one day be replaced with mobile devices. Game industry luminary Jamil Moledina sees a future dominated by social action games that people can play regardless of platform. More »

Go To Hell With Shadows of the Damned This Summer

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:20:00 EST

Shinji Mikami and Goichi "Suda 51," the creators behind demon-slaying action adventure Shadows of the Damned, will bring their next adventure to consoles on June 7, EA revealed today. More »

Funcom Teams With EA For The Secret World

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:50:27 EST

Independent developer Funcom has joined up with EA's EA Partners division in order to co-publish the upcoming present-day paranormal PC MMO The Secret World. More »

American McGee's Alice Officially Kicks Off TGS Cosplay

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:40:00 EDT

American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns wasn't playable at EA's pre-TGS event, but the publisher tried to make up for it with a blood-stained cosplaying Alice who might cut you if you tried to grab the controller. More »

EA Predicted Poor Reviews For APB

Owen Good — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Electronic Arts provided distribution support for APB, whose bankrupt studio is being sold off; today a senior EA executive said the game's poor reviews were somewhat predicted internally and suggested to Realtime Worlds. More »

Three New Peeks Into The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:40:00 EDT

Baseball star turned game developer Curt Schilling and his team at 38 Studios are hard at work on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, perhaps the strongest looking role-playing we've ever seen from a professional athlete. More »

Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane (With Friend) At Comic-Con

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning creative contributor and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane poses with a Troll before the 38 Studios game panel at Comic-Con 2010. Todd says "You can bludgeon your younger brother with it." Neat! More »

Ratchet & Clank Maker's Next Game Coming to the Xbox 360, PS3

Brian Crecente — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:00:00 EDT

The next big gaming franchise from the creators of a decade and a half's worth of some of the Playstation's most beloved titles is coming to the Xbox 360. More »

First Bulletstorm Screens Show Off Outrageously Large Guns, Plants

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:40:00 EDT

Painkiller developer People Can Fly are loading Bulletstorm for a 2011 release, promising "outrageously large guns" and "hordes of mutants and flesh eating gangs in an abandoned paradise," all of which one can clearly see in brand new screen shots. More »

Video Game Art That Can Kill

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Large, light package arrived at our New York office via Electronic Arts today. It contained a limited-edition (destined for charity) Crysis 2 art printed on aluminum. You could slice someone with this thing. More »

EA Cuts Deal To Publish Shank, Deathspank

Brian Crecente — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST

Electronic Arts today announced a deal with the developers of Shank and Deathspank to bring the downloadable games to multiple platforms. More »

Silent Hill's Akira Yamaoka Finds New Home At Grasshopper Manufacture

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:40:59 EST

Akira Yamaoka, famous for his musical and directorial contributions to Silent Hill, recently ended his longtime employment at Konami. That publisher's loss is quirky developer Grasshopper Manufacture's gain, as Yamaoka has signed on with Goichi Suda's studio, according to Famitsu. More »

Return of Alice: The Creepy Trailer

Brian Crecente — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

It's hard not to get excited about the return of American McGee's Alice. More »

American McGee Has a Blank Canvas for Alice Sequel

Brian Crecente — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:00:00 EST

Deadly jumping jacks, a vivisected dormouse, and a suicidal Alice were the products of famed designer American McGee's first trip through the looking glass. There's no telling where his second will take us. More »

The Return of American McGee's Alice Set For PC, Consoles

Brian Crecente — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:00:10 EST

Electronic Arts is teaming up with Spicy Horse and American McGee to create a sequel to Electronic Art's PC classic from 2000. More »

EA Partners To Distribute Wheel Of Time Games

Mike Fahey — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:40:00 EST

Red Eagle Games have signed a worldwide distribution deal with EA Partners to distribute games based on Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels. More »

Former GDC Director Lands At EA Partners

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:20:18 EDT

Oh God... they got Jamil, too! Jamil Moledina, the former director of the Game Developers Conference and executive producer of the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards, has been absorbed the EA collective. Moledina left his previous position in August to pursue "other interests." More »

EA Is Coming For Your Developers, Japan

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:00:19 EDT

Lock up your developers, Japanese publishers. Your daughters are fine, but EA is about to come knockin', snatching away your best local talent for its EA Partners program. The mega-publisher announced last month that it had signed Grasshopper Manufacture by way of Q Entertainment for an upcoming horror game, adding the developer to a stable that includes Valve, id Software, Epic Games and People Can Fly. More »

EA Partners: DeMartini on the 'Renaissance'

Maggie Greene — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:40:00 EDT

Gamasutra has a nice five page interview up with David DeMartini of EA Partners, the Electronic Arts division that has released games like Rock Band, Crysis, The Orange Box, and, uh, Hellgate: London in the past year. It's a pretty wide ranging chat, from discussions of the challenges the come with working with Japanese studios, to acquiring new titles, to the relative disaster of Hellgate: More »