Archive for the ‘Misc Sports Gaming’ Category
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All About The New EA Community Blog
Last Friday EA Sports launched their community based blog which kicked off with the first Madden 10 news as well as a great deal of coverage around various events leading up to the Super Bowl. Community Manager Will Kinsler was gracious enough to answer some questions related to what is driving this new initiative at EA. We go back a ways, but for those people out there who aren't familiar with you introduce yourself and your role at EA Sports. I'm the community manager for EA SPORTS ...
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EA Sports Launches Community Blog
In another initiative that is intended to connect fans of the games with the developers EA Sports has launched a community focused blog. You can check it out here. The majority of the updates on the first day were done live from the Madden Bowl in Tampa. In the future it will be used to provide a behind the scenes look at the studios and the people that work on the games along with event coverage and more to come. EA also used the occasion to announce that the first info for Madden 2010 w...
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EA Planning More Downloadable Games
In something that won't come as a surprise, EA Sports president Peter Moore confirmed in his latest blog posting that more downloadable games along the lines of 3 on 3 NHL Arcade will be coming down the line. Considering the positive reception to the idea of downloading off the XBL Marketplace and PSN along with the low price of $10 it fits what EA was hoping to do with some of their off-titles. Doing so would have probably benefited other arcade style titles released in the past year and ch...
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Industry Taking Advantage of Twitter
Over the last couple weeks there has been a surge in the use of Twitter within the gaming industry. Twitter is an insanely popular social networking site that uses short status like messages to keep connected with others. Just recently there was an article listing out many of the users associated with gaming in various PR, development, or community positions. That has now been spun into a website dedicated to keeping track of those users. Since then even more have popped up to take advantage...
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The Rise of Online Gaming
It wasn't too long ago that online play was an afterthought when it came to sports games. Whether it be bare bones offerings, laggy performance, or disconnection issues there was not much time or effort being spent to make on making for great experience. At the time the reasoning being given was that not enough people played online. Internal data showed that many who did go online would play only once or a couple times and then never again. That provided their justification for not spendi...
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More on EA Sports Complex
On Thursday the EA Sports Complex for Playstation Home was announced. Specifics of what initially would be available in the Complex though were not provided. Now though EA has released a video showing off the space and some of the mini-games that will be available which includes poker, racing, and a driving range. Kotaku and PSU have posted hands-on impressions from CES. While they are relatively positive about it, it does seem that there will be some waiting around to be able to play whi...
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EA Sports on Playstation Home
The general consensus regarding Playstation Home is that is has been pretty much useless so far, though it has the potential to offer some value in the future. One of the aspects that is expected to take off is with companies opening up their own spaces in Home. Today EA announced that they will be doing so this spring with the introduction of the EA Sports Complex. EA worked closely together with Sony Computer Entertainment to ensure that the EA SPORTS Complex space within PlayStation Home...
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Skate 2 Demo by January 8th
The original Skate released to high praise with gamers really catching on to the realistic representation as well as the video uploading feature. It surprised the industry by passing the long entrenched Tony Hawk series in both sales and quality forcing them to go into reinvent mode. Xbox.com is now featuring details of a sweepstakes that requires the download of the demo for Skate 2 between January 8-15. The 8th seems like the best bet for it to arrive given it is a Thursday and the demo...
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