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Nintendo has named June 12th as the day that it will release its motion-enhancing Wii MotionPlus peripheral in Europe – a full six weeks before the arrival of Wii Sports Resort on July 24th. Wii MotionPlus comes in the form of a dongle that plugs into the bottom of a …
Read More »EA eying up Wii Motion Plus
EA has seemingly confirmed via a press invite that both Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 and EA Sports Tennis will both support Nintendo’s upcoming motion-enhancing Wii Motion Plus. MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz has the full story.
Read More »EA to enter sportswear market
North American games publisher EA has struck a deal with Toy Island that will see the EA Sports brand used on a number of upcoming interactive training products. The products will include tech such as infrared, motion-sensing and equilibrium sensors to give a very Wii-like sports experience. Our goal is …
Read More »PopCap: "Nintendo hasn’t stolen our thunder"
PopCap’s creative director and co-creator of the mammoth casual gaming success Bejeweled, Jason Kapalka, has insisted that firms such as Nintendo are not ‘stealing its thunder’ despite the fact that the huge sales numbers for many casual titles continue to go unrecognised. Kapalka was responding to a recent report on …
Read More »Football Manager Live iPhone a possibility
Sportâ??s Interactive would â??loveâ?? to port soccer MMO to mobile
Read More »EA confirms plans for PlayStation Home
The hard-hitting support for Sony’s PlayStation Home service just keeps coming with news that the EA Sports Complex space should be in place by spring this year, according to Electronic Arts. We’re proud to support the PlayStation Home Beta with a very robust offering from EA Sports,” said Peter Moore, …
Read More »Wii Sports is a problem for EA
Peter Moore, the outspoken boss of EA Sports, has admitted that the publisher has had trouble establishing its annual sports franchises on Nintendo’s Wii – a challenge it pins on the massively popular Wii Sports. EA’s most recent Madden title sold over two million units on Xbox 360, PS3 and …
Read More »Peter Moore: Casual is the future
Industry heavyweight and former Xbox boss Peter Moore has given casual gaming a huge thumbs up whilst casting doubt over the long-term validity of the established hardcore console market. The claims come in spite of the recent departure of Casual boss Kathy Vrabeck and the merging of EA’s Casual and …
Read More »EA next to enter Wii fitness market
Just one day after Koch-owned publisher Deep Silver announced it’s own competitor in a marketplace already catered to by the likes of Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Atari’s Family Trainer, EA has announced its debut entry into the market – EA Sports Active. Unlike Deep Silver’s title, EA Sports Active will …
Read More »Music overtakes sport in game genre battle
A new report from market research firm Odyssey claims that music-based games have now overtaken sports titles to become the second most popular genre behind action, Venture Beat reports. The US-based study claims that in 2006, 62 per cent of those surveyed claimed to play sports titles – this has …
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