Entries Tagged as 'Electronic Arts'

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

What’s in the water at EA Tiburon nowadays?

First, high praise for Head Coach. Now, an announcement for patches and downloadable content to address problems brought up on forums, a week before the game goes out? On OS, Phil Frazier posted noting that patches and DLC may address (among other things) kick returns, ghost juking, CPU accuracy, field degradation, CPU sliders, […]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

EA Extends NFL Exclusive until 2013

More bad news on the licensing front. As reported by Kotaku:

Electronic Arts today announced that they’ve extended their exclusive agreement with the NFL and the Players Association for another three years, meaning the publisher has the only agreement in place with the league for creating licensed football games through the 2012/2013 season.
“We’ve just completed […]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

FIFA Street 3 Demo Impressions

Some impressions from the FIFA Street Demo.
Unfortunately, the core gameplay of FIFA Street is boring, even at the game’s highest levels. To be successful at the game, you simply need to do the following:
1) Hold the ball in your own half and execute tricks to build your gamebreaker. Using tricks involves no skill…it’s […]

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

College Hoops 2K9 - Reading between the lines

EA responded to Kotaku regarding the possible cancellation of College Hoops 2K9. David Tinson, director of EA Sports public relations, said:
2k and CLC are in the best position to comment on College Hoops.
EA is in the middle of a long-term license with the CLC and we expect to stay in the college basketball category.
Some […]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

No College Hoops 2K9?

As reported on Kotaku and Gamespot, it currently looks like College Hoops 2K9 has been cancelled. In the original Kotaku article, they reported that “Electronic Arts may be in the process of trying to secure another exclusive sports franchise by landing the same sort of licensing deal that managed to grab with the NFL.” […]