Welcome to E3 2016! Kotaku is in Los Angeles for the week, bringing you all the news, interviews, media, and more…
Titanfall 2! Mass Effect Andromeda! Sports! It’s time for EA’s annual press conference, this time on Sunday instead…
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The next cover athlete for Madden will be Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, EA announced this evening. Given that…
Star Wars Battlefront will return in 2017 with “bigger and better worlds,” and will pull from the new films, EA announced on an investor call today. It’s unclear if this means a proper Battlefront 2 or a big expansion. An EA spokesperson said the company had “nothing more to share.”
EA has settled a class action lawsuit over the likenesses of college athletes being in the company’s games without permission for $60 million, reports ESPN. As the lawsuit moved forward, EA killed off its NCAA Football franchise in 2011. NCAA Basketball was discontinued in 2010.
It’s easy to sit here as a games writer or armchair pundit and rail against the practice of publishers asking for…
Electronic Arts is essentially skipping E3 this year, pulling out of the trade show in favor of their own events in…
EA Access, a subscription program that allows people to play and download a variety of Electronic Arts games, is…
Electronic Arts has announced that Mirror’s Edge Catalyst has been delayed from February 23 until May 24. No specific reason was given for the delay, other than needing more time for polish. We’ve waited years already, so why not a few more months? That’s what I’m trying to tell myself, anyway. Read more
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Ten years ago, I wrote one of the most wrongheaded articles of my career. In a review of 2005’s Blitz: The League…
EA has announced a huge delay for Need For Speed on PC, with the game moving from November 3 until Spring 2016. Why? Making sure players can unlock the frame rate and “increase the visuals that we can deliver on PC.” Seems the response to Arkham Knight has made some publishers skittish! Read more
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It is one of the oft-old tales in the three-decade (!) history of Madden NFL: When Trip Hawkins, the founder of…
If you’ve been jealous of folks playing Star Wars: Battlefront in the game’s private alpha, EA’s announced the game’s beta will begin sometime in early October. The beta will also mark the debut of a new, mysterious game mode called Drop Zone. Read more
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There’s a new Mass Effect. It’s Mass Effect: Andromeda, and it’s coming “holiday 2016.”
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Get ready for some red-hot EA Sports action, featuring all the games you’ve been craving: golf, soccer, football,…
Here’s EA’s upcoming (announced) lineup for the next year or so. The news? Mirror’s Edge is slated for Q4 (January-March 2016), as is a new Plants vs. Zombies game. (Screengrab via EA’s presentation for Q4 2015.)