Tag: ELECTRONICARTS

Crowded in the hot but majestic Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, we awaited the first major software announcements of the Electronics Entertainment Expo, known to diehards and casual gamers alike as E3. With our pens and cameras in hand, we got a front-row (well, almost) glimpse at the anticipated upcoming Electronic Arts titles. EA is a pretty serious publisher, responsible for sports greats ...

Each year the biggest and brightest in the video game industry gather in Los Angeles to show off their wares destined for release in the coming months and years. It's called the Electronics Entertainment Expo, or E3. We're at the show, and here's the best of what happened on day one. Microsoft Announces Project Natal That Microsoft was working on a motion-based controller wasn't a surprise to ...

It's no longer enough to plop your nine-year-old in front of a TV or a video game; nowadays, everyone is pushing to gets kids more physically active. Whether it's Leapfrog, or Nintendo, or now Electronic Arts (EA), companies and parents are pushing to mix entertainment and exercise. EA, makers of some of the most popular sports video games available, has teamed up with Toy Island to create a ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have won another Super Bowl! Well, virtually, anyway. The folks at Electronic Arts (EA) simulated Sunday's big game with the help of video game 'Madden 09,' and the Steel Curtain came out on top of the Arizona Cardinals, according to Joystiq. We didn't care at first either, but once we took a closer look at EA's proficiency at prophecy, we weren't nearly as ...

Shawn Fanning (pictured, above) is, in many ways, the man who started the decline of the music industry. Back in the late '90s while still a college student, he created Napster, the peer-to-peer file sharing service that allowed millions of users to swap illegal copies of music quickly and easily. More importantly, his invention got people thinking about the value of recorded music and ...

'The Sims,' from gaming mega-publisher Electronic Arts is the most popular PC game of all time. Its dozens of successful releases and expansion packs over the years have cemented that position, but one of its iterations, 2002's 'The Sims Online,' never quite caught on. EA kept it running for years, and just last February rolled it into the new 'EA Land' free online game. Now, just a few months ...

Today, while disappointing investors with less than stellar fourth-quarter financial results, gaming juggernaut Electronic Arts revealed that it has four new games for the iPod in the works. EA has previously released 'Sudoku,' 'Tetris,' 'Mini Golf,' 'Mahjong' and 'Royal Solitaire' on iTunes, each available for $4.99. All we know at this time is that one of the games will be 'Sims Bowling.' No ...