News: NFL Head Coach 09 announced by EA

EA officially announced NFL Head Coach 09. Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy will grace the cover this year. EA is stating that "From draft day to game day, the gamers' decisions impact their team's success and make or break a team's road to the Super Bowl." Sound interesting for NFL fans. The full press release is here.

News: EA announces titles for fiscal 2009!

EA Games president Frank Gibeau revealed many releases that are to come for fiscal 2009. He announced that both Skate and Burnout would see new titles (but it was not said whether they would be side titles like Burnout Legends or big time all console releases. Skate was a big success for EA, outselling Activision's Tony Hawk Proving Grounds (which was like Madden but for skating games before skate came along) for both PS3 and Xbox 360 on its first try. They also announced that they will be making more games for the series Mass Effect (from the recently acquired BioWare). While they will be made by mostly the same people, a lot of people worry that this will be bad for the Mass Effect series because of the way EA likes to annualize titles and rush them out. I guess we'll see in the future what will come of it. Also announced is a new Need for Speed (big surprise), though Gibeau said that the series would be returning to more of the Most Wanted and Underground roots that got the series so popular rather than continuing with the Pro Street theme (thank God).

-CA

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A Recent Peek at EA's 'Dead Space'

Hello again everyone. Recently while browsing the wonderful interweb, I stumbled upon a little trailer for EA's latest attempt at a horror/survival game 'Dead Space'. There is something definitely different from other games of that genre: its set in space. Its set about 500 years in the future where an engineer by the name of Isaac Clarke is sent as part of a support team sent to investigate communications silence coming from the USG Ishimura, a massive space "planet cracker" used to strip entire planets of all available resources. Just reading that part gave me chills; its like 'Alien', 'Virus' and 'Event Horizon' all rolled into one massive interactive experience. The game looks great and, from what I saw in the teaser, comes with plenty of eerie environments and enemies. Look for 'Dead Space' Some time in 2008.

-JD

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News: Rock Band coming to Wii!

EA CEO John Riccitiello announced that sometime within the 2009 fiscal year (April 1, 2008-April 1, 2009) the hit rhythm game Rock Band will be released on the Nintendo Wii. The only question now is, how will they handle downloadable songs on the Wii?

-CA

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