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EA Announces The Sims 3 for Wii, DS, 360 and PS3

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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EA Announces The Sims 3 for Wii, DS, 360 and PS3

In a press release today, EA announced console versions of the hugely popular The Sims 3 to be released later this year. Each version will largely have the same concepts and goals but they will each have their own exclusive features that set them apart. Executive Producer at EA, Sam Player explained: “We’re bringing players [...]

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Tiger Woods Online Jumps on the Virtual Currency Bandwagon

Saturday, April 24, 2010

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Tiger Woods Online Jumps on the Virtual Currency Bandwagon

Virtual currency has been a effective tool to promote socialization and marketing in online games. For example, you may recall the recent Playfish cash offer in Hotel City. Well according to Mashable, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, Electronic Art’s new web-based golf game, is getting some of the action. For each Facebook friend that signs [...]

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Auditorium is Now Free on iPhone

Monday, April 19, 2010

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Auditorium is Now Free on iPhone

Auditorium was released by EA on the iPhone for $2.99. The game contains 25 base levels, and contained access to purchase additional level packs for 99 cents each. Now though, as reported by Touch Arcade, EA has dropped the price for the core game from $2.99 to nothing at all. For those unfamiliar with the [...]

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EA Mobile Launches The Human Tetris Project

Saturday, April 17, 2010

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EA Mobile Launches The Human Tetris Project

It has been 25 years since Russian designer Alexey Pajitnov’s game, Tetris, took the world by storm in 1985. To celebrate the momentous anniversary, EA Mobile and The Tetris Company have launched a Facebook application called The Human Tetris Project. Strangely enough, you do not actually get to play Tetris in the application. Rather, it [...]

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EA Tops iTunes Game Charts

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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EA Tops iTunes Game Charts

EA has taken several of the top spots on the iTunes Games section this past week and The Sims 3 World Adventures took #1. With a majority of these titles being on sale as well, it should be no surprise. Kotaku has the full list on the sales charts. Also topping near the top of [...]

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EA Brings Pogo Portal to Facebook

Monday, April 5, 2010

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EA Brings Pogo Portal to Facebook

As reported by Inside Social Games, Electronic Arts has brought its casual game portal Pogo to Facebook. The Pogo app is in a beta form, and it offers 10 of the 184 games found on Pogo.com proper. Luckily, the games that are included are some of the most popular ones on the site, including Poppit!, [...]

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Former EA Marketing Exec Joins Social Gold

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Former EA Marketing Exec Joins Social Gold

This morning, Triplepoint client Social Gold announced that they have acquired a new Chief Marketing Officer in Mike Quigley, former marketing executive for Electronic Arts (EA). Quigley brings to the company over 10 years of experience with EA, where he worked on some of the industry’s biggest franchises, including (but not limited to) Need for [...]

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EA believes that Buying their Way into Casual Gaming is the Only Way

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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EA believes that Buying their Way into Casual Gaming is the Only Way

Famed analyst Michael Pachter always has a few good ideas about how different gaming companies’ strategies are going to work or not. Pachter now believes that traditional gaming companies such as EA are going to have to buy their way into casual gaming because the speed at which casual gaming grows is too small and [...]

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EA Releases Screens for Sim City Deluxe and the Sims 3 World Adventures

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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EA Releases Screens for Sim City Deluxe and the Sims 3 World Adventures

EA has released new screenshots for two of its upcoming iPhone games: Sim City Deluxe and The Sims 3: World Adventures. As reported by Touch Arcade, the gameplay interface in Sim City Deluxe has been tweaked (when compared to the 2008 original iPhone title, Sim City), and now allows for pinch-and-zoom support. The game also [...]

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EA Takes a Page From Zynga’s Handbook for Next Madden Game

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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EA Takes a Page From Zynga’s Handbook for Next Madden Game

Social game companies like Zynga and Playfish have been using player data and feedback to determine which direction their games progress for some time now, and it looks like EA has caught onto how well that works. As reported by GamesBeat, the mega developer/publisher has been collecting data from their sports games since 2004, and [...]

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EA Announces New Sims and Skate-It Games for iPhone

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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EA Announces New Sims and Skate-It Games for iPhone

EA seems to have really taken to the iPhone lately, with many entries in popular franchises appearing on the platform quite frequently. Yesterday, it was revealed that EA is planning two more games; one in the hugely popular Sims franchise and another catered more towards the virtual skating fanatic. The Sims 3: World Adventures is [...]

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UK Palm Pre Owners, Get Your Free EA Games While You Can

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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UK Palm Pre Owners, Get Your Free EA Games While You Can

CasualGaming is reporting that EA UK has signed a deal to allow three of their games to be downloaded for free from the UK app store until the end of March. The move was made in order to promote the paid apps store which launches at the end of the month. This news makes it [...]

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