On June 6^th 2011, DICE announced that the next installment in Battlefield series, Battlefield 3, will be available on October 25, 2011, after three years of development. Providing amazing art, delivering superior performance in character animation, visual rendering, audio/sound and physical destruction, Battlefield 3 leaps in front of the competition due to the unique power of the Frostbite 2 game engine. Battlefield 3, the first FPS to use Frostbite 2 game engine, allows players to experience the gameplay as never before with all the sights, sounds, movements and action being realistic and inspired from real-world incursions.  In September 2011 a multi-platform beta will be available. … More

The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc, announced on April 5, 2011 that The Sims 3 Generations, an expansion for the original game, is in development and is set for release this spring. In The Sims 3 Generations players will be able to control characters in different stages of their lives and enjoy humorous and memorable moments from childhood and teenage years to adulthood.

“The Sims 3 Generations includes new gameplay experiences and content that our community has been requesting for years including bunk beds, expansive weddings, midlife crises and more,” said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims Studio at EA. … More

Dragon Age 2 is one of those games released carrying the burden of high expectations and predefined conceptions, both based on the standards setting success of the previous installment, Dragon Age: Origins. With the RPG genre being probably the most reluctant in the face of evolution, the new Dragon Age was met by the gaming community with mixed feelings, many claiming that the game doesn’t meet the nowadays RPG quota, while others fell instantly in love with what the game has to offer. Everyone is entitled to a personal opinion, but these opinions can be influenced by factors ranging from previous gaming or game developing experience to one’s personal favorite color, so in the end they might not have much value in deciding if a game is good or bad. … More

California Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle allowed the Activision vs. EA lawsuit to continue, considering that the plaintiff provided enough evidence to support this decision. Activision can now go ahead with three of the four original legal claims against EA. The lawsuit is scheduled for May, 2011 and Electronic Arts is facing the possibility of losing $400m in the process.

EA, the second largest US video game publisher, is accused of helping Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella to breach their contract. According to Activision, the rival company also received confidential information from the two former employees: “Electronic Arts conspired with two former senior Activision executives [West and Zampella] … More

A new trailer video and a new website was unveiled today, March 10, 2011 for The Secret World, a massively multiplayer online game developed and published by the leading game developer Funcom. The trailer gives the player a unique peek into the gameplay, the myths and monsters and the modern-day story of the much anticipated game. Players will not be limited to classes or levels, giving them the opportunity to play their characters as they wish, in their own style, as they make their way through the real-world locations featured in the game.

“It is truly exciting for us to show gamers just how much freedom they will be able to enjoy in The Secret World,” says Director and Producer Ragnar Tørnquist. … More

Online rumors claiming that the sequel to Mirror`s Edge, the single-player first person shooter action-adventure game released in 2008, has been canceled recently pushed the publisher EA to offer official comments related to the issues. Several games sites interpreted the indirect quotes attributed by the Swedish site Press 2 Play TV to EA senior VP Patrick Soderlund as a sign that further developments on the game had been stopped. However, it seems that the DICE series was “an important franchise” as EA stated for 1UP before adding that it had “nothing further to announce” at the moment, thus giving no more additional details about the state of the game or the amount of truth present in rumors that spread over the internet. … More

On March 1, 2011 a multiplayer demo of Crysis 2 will be available for download on the game’s official site. Crysis 2 is the latest installment in the science-fiction 1st person-shooter Crysis series, developed by Crytek Frankfurt and published by Electronic Arts. The demo will feature two maps, two exciting modes and multiple hours of multiplayer gaming.

The war-torn Manhattan will become an arena where players will battle six vs. six on two maps: Skyline and Pier 17. The battles taking place on the first map, Skyline, will be held on top of the rooftops and interiors of the city buildings, especially on the skyscrapers, while Pier 17 will feature an open environment. … More

Dead Space 2, the survival horror developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts, was one of the most highly anticipated games of the last twelve months. After its release it sky-rocketed in top positions in software charts across the globe and in the UK alone it stood anchored in pole position for two consecutive weeks with competitors such as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Little Big Planet 2 at its heels. And all this not without merit as the game takes the horror genre one step further. A little step, a tiny one even, but nevertheless taken in the right direction.

The action in Dead Space 2 takes place three years after the first episode which focused on the Ishimura tragedy, … More

On July 20 2010 Electronic Arts announced a new project – Darkspore, a sci-fi action-RPG, designed by Thomas Vu and developed by Maxis that will feature a more advanced real-time character creation and editing than the one seen in Spore.

The game will have a full single-player campaign, but also the possibility to co-op with four other players, and PVP multiplayer Deathmatches that will allow one to test the heroes collected in normal gameplay against other player`s heroes. Defeating the evil Darkspores isn’t an easy job and protecting the galaxy from them falls on the genetic heroes the player will control. Darkspore will feature three classes of five types (Bio, Cyber, Necro, Plasma and Quantum), each hero possessing different features and abilities, … More

Have you ever dreamed of saving the galaxy… twice? Well now you can, as the highly anticipated sequel of the famous BioWare RPG is finally out. Two years have passed since Commander Shepard has defended the galaxy from the Reaper threat and saved all organic life from annihilation. Not much has happened since. The newly formed human controlled Council is wasting no effort in burying any Reaper related information and shifting the public’s attention towards the artificially created life form known as the Geth. All inhabitance from some human colonies based in the Terminus Systems are mysteriously disappearing and no one has a clue as to why or how. A new alien race, The Collectors, makes its dramatic stage entry. Oh yes, and there is also the small matter of your death which functions as the main catalyst of the whole sequence of events that hold Mass Effect 2 together. … More