Channel 4 has launched a new online show, SuperMes, which was created by UK production company Somethin’ Else using The Sims 3. “It’s no surprise a game like The Sims 3 can be put to such creative use, but we are still incredibly excited by this truly novel use of our world-beating technology,” said Claire Ridley, UK [...]
UK TV broadcaster Channel 4 has launched SuperMe, a new online series filmed entirely via EA’s life simulator The Sims 3. The new show is completely unchoreographed, according to Channel 4, with producer Somethin’ Else simply putting a group of four Sims, the “Super Mes,” into specific situations and then recording the action that unfolds. [...]
Hey, remember the Dragon Age anime? Back in 2010, EA and Funimation announced plans for an original direct-to-video animated feature based on the franchise, to be released in 2011. Funimation has finally unveiled Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, cleverly playing the delay off as an intentional Year of the Dragon placement. You can see [...]
Zack Bastian, contributor the lovely Law of the Game Blog, talks about what to expect in the Call of Duty lawsuit between EA, Activision and former Infinity Ward front men Jason West and Vince Zampella. Besides offering a look back at the case as it has progressed so far and what caused it to happen [...]
As the origin of “Project Ten Dollar,” EA has been dabbling in different ways of implementing its online pass systems. For example, the publisher recently locked single-player content in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Online multiplayer is usually completely locked in most of EA’s sports and shooter titles. However, for the upcoming SSX, the company is [...]
[As originally posted on Japanator] It’s been a while since we last heard of Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, the anime spin-off of Bioware’s fantasy RPG. Dragonagemovie.com has been updated, and we now know that Bioware and EA’s collaboration with FUNimation is coming in Spring 2012. Fumihiko Sori (Vexille) is directing the project, and studio Oxybot is taking care [...]
Though the inclusion of an online pass in a game with Electronic Arts’ name attached to it does not come as a shock, word that SSX will follow the trend got the usual people riled up. I was prepared to perform the obligatory shrug and go about my day, but the specifics of what content [...]
When it comes to Super Bowl soothsaying, EA Sports’ Madden NFL games almost have it down to a science. The sports sim has correctly predicted the winner of six of the last eight Super Bowls; the first time it was wrong was back in 2008, when the New York Giants shocked the New England Patriots, [...]
The Super Bowl kickoff lies less than a week away, and EA Sports has fulfilled its annual tradition of predicting the winner through an in-game simulation with Madden NFL 12. The outcome resulted in the New York Giants defeating the New England Patriots 27-24 in Super Bowl XLVI. The simulation ended in suitably dramatic fashion, [...]
<!– Are you wondering who has the upper hand in this Sunday’s National Football League sporting contest, but you’re beyond trusting those silly old sports journalists? Let EA answer that for you, with its annual simulation of the Superbowl as conducted in Madden NFL 12 on Xbox 360. As evidenced in the video above, the [...]