It was recently announced that EA has decided to team up with Chinese-based game studio NetDragon Websoft in order to produce an MMO based on EA’s Dungeon Keeper series.
Not much information regarding the game has been released other than that it will be a 3D MMORPG based on the above-mentioned series.
NetDragon also announced in the [...]

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Defying expectations of a March 2009 release, EA today sent word that Skate 2, the sequel to the popular skateboarding game, will hit stores in North America on January 21, 2009 and the world two days later.
To make the deal sweeter, EA also revealed that those who pre-order the game now will receive an exclusive [...]

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Missed out on the initial Dead Space craze? Always wanted to feel scared and lonely aboard a scary spaceship? Didn’t want to spend money for it?
To satiate your hunger, a free downloadable demo of the game will hit Xbox Live and PlayStation Store tomorrow, as announced by publisher Electronic Arts.
“Before you carve your turkey this [...]

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Still holding out on Red Alert 3? Not too sure about the gameplay, but aching to check out the over-the-top B-grade acting and crazy parallel universe shenanigans? Ease up as EA has announced that a demo for the game will be released tomorrow.
It will feature tutorial training missions and two full levels from the game’s [...]

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Bearing bad news for PC gamers, EA announced that the computer version of the game will be released in January 2009. This is a more specific release date than before, as they had promised only a winter date till now.
However, to bring some form of consolation to gamers, the company also announced the first [...]

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The DRM saga continues, as Electronic Arts has been slapped with two more lawsuits related to its use of SecuROM DRM technology, this time in relation to The Sims 2 Bon Voyage and Spore Creature Creator.
One Richard Eldridge of Pennsylvania is suing the publisher over undisclosed installation of the DRM software after installing a [...]

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In even more Rock Band news, Harmonix today announced that Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 will be available for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii on November 17. This marks the second such release in the studio’s ongoing efforts to bring online content to people who don’t subscribe to PSN or Xbox Live.
The [...]

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The coming week will see Foo Fighters’ breakout album “The Color and the Shape” released on Rock Band. The tracklist is as follows:

Doll
Monkey Wrench
Hey, Johnny Park!
My Poor Brain
Wind Up
Up in Arms
My Hero
See You
Enough Space
February Stars
Walking After You
New Way Home

All the songs are [...]

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Those of you who waited all day yesterday for the promised free songs for Rock Band 2 – worry not, cause Harmonix hasn’t forgotten you.
The company has apparently hit an “unexpected delay with getting the content online from Microsoft” and “have suspended sending out the token codes until the content becomes available,” according to [...]

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Fans of the popular Command and Conquer series will be happy to hear that EA is looking hopeful in their upcoming release of the PS3 version of Command and Conquer 3.
Announcing that they are “looking to do some really cool things” with the game, taking advantage of the fact that Blu-ray can hold so much [...]

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Now if you like violence, the above trailer is without a doubt, for you, showcasing th hand-to-hand combat that will be featured in The Godfather II.
If this wasn’t enough for you, just keep in mind that this video barely shows the use of weapons so expect the game to be loads more violent, and even [...]

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Seeing as how today is election day in the US, Maxis and EA jointly announced that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin will make appearances in Spore.
The presidential candidates (and their ever-lovable sidekicks) will appear in Spore as spaceships. Players can get the politician-shaped spaceships in their game by subscribing to the Election 08 Sporecast.
"Who [...]

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Remember the bidding war between movie studios for the rights to develop a movie adaptation of EA’s take on Dante’s Inferno, a classic piece of literature? Well, the winner has been announced, and Universal takes the cake.
Universal Pictures will develop and distribute the film, with game creator Jonathan Knight and EA VP Patrick O’Brien [...]

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EA sends word that the open beta for BattleForge, its upcoming massively multiplayer real-time strategy game, will begin on November 7. Interested players can register on the title’s official website to get in on the fun.
Being developed by Phenomic, the game combines RTS gameplay with the collectability of trading cards in an online environment [...]

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Keeping up the Burnout craze, EA announced that it will release Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in February 2009. The title will feature the full version of the crash-tastic game along with all of its downloadable content and a new offline multiplayer mode, among other things.
The offline multiplayer [...]

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Following word that Obama and Palin are coming to Mercenaries 2 as playable characters, EA publishing COO John Peasants expressed hope in the franchise, revealed that “there will be a Mercenaries 3, and if I can have anything to do with it, there will be a Mercenaries 10.”
The sequel, which was not so well-received by [...]

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Skateboarding fans everywhere will be pleased to hear that EA’s skate 2 will be hitting shelves stateside January of next year.
This comes to us from IGN who, after thumbing through their pre-release Mirror’s Edge copies, noticed a skate 2 advertisement that states the game will be “In Stores January 2009″. Following their discovery, they phoned [...]

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Already available for PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360, EA’s Rock Band 2 will arrive on the Wii in “late December,” according to the publisher.
The Wii version has always been planned for release in December, though which part of December was a mystery till now.
This confirmation came to Destructoid in response to retailer murmurs that [...]

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Blizzard’s MMO juggernaut World of Warcraft is yet to be toppled, not even by heavyweight newcomers Age of Conan and Warhammer Online. That may change, though, with the coming of Star Wars: The Old Republic, which is in development at BioWare.
EA Games president Frank Gibeau spoke on the matter, stating that they are ready [...]

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EA may be known for its roster of great single-player games, but isn’t exactly well-known for its online titles. However, that is going to change as company president Frank Gibeau expressed concern that the publisher’s titles must go online “as fast as possible”, noting that there are “more projects we can do that have [...]

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