Neil Patrick Harris Will Host the Spike Video Game Awards
This Saturday’s Spike TV Video Game Awards show is promising to have a number of videogame reveals in addition to the usual slate of awards. Whether or not you care about the awards themselves, the show might be worth watching just for its host — Neil Patrick Harris is set to lead the show
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Neil Patrick Harris Will Host the Spike Video Game Awards
EA’s Plan to Beat CoD: Make a Better Game, Twice
Despite the colossal success of the Call of Duty franchise the last few years, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello believes Activision’s premier franchise is beatable, and he has a plan to do it that’s as simple as it is ambitious: First, make a better game.
EA CEO Believes Music Games will Make a Comeback
Based on what Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said to Bloomberg yesterday , you would think he’s all but written off the music game genre. When asked about the prospect of EA buying Harmonix, he evidently compared it to trying to “catch a falling knife,” and said that “moves that look like I’m doubling down on yesterday would make it harder still to convince investors that tomorrow is the Promised Land.” But speaking to Kotaku , Riccitiello struck a more hopeful note — and claimed his earlier comments were taken a little bit out of context.
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Tiger Woods Needs to Start Winning for Partnership to "Make Sense" in the Long Run, EA Says
EA has stuck with Tiger Woods despite revelations of his extramarital affairs; but the publisher recently hinted that their patience isn’t infinite. Speaking with Reuters (via NBC Sports ), EA CEO John Ricitiello reiterated that there’s “no threat against Tiger.” But he also noted what he referred to as their business relationship.
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Tiger Woods Needs to Start Winning for Partnership to "Make Sense" in the Long Run, EA Says
‘Late Adopters’ May Help Turn Around Declining Wii Sales, Says Nintendo
It wasn’t so long ago that the Nintendo Wii was easily winning the monthly NPD numbers, second occasionally to the DS but still constantly showing Nintendo sales dominance. Recently those sales have slowed, but company president Reggie Fils-Aime still has faith that they’ll see sustained success thanks to late adopters. “The back half of any system cycle attracts a higher proportion of buyers who are concerned with price, ease of use and group play,” he wrote in a statement to the L.A.
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EA: Buying Harmonix "Like Trying to Catch a Falling Knife"
A few different names have been bandied as potential Harmonix suitors ever since Viacom revealed they were planning to sell the Rock Band developer, but one name we can probably now scratch off the list is Electronic Arts. Speaking to Bloomberg , EA CEO John Riccitiello all but flat-out stated they have no plans to acquire the rhythm game developer
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Japan Review Check: Ni no Kuni, DKC Returns
We aren’t entirely sure if anyone in Japan is going to be playing anything besides Monster Hunter Portable 3rd for the next week, but regardless, here are the most interesting games coming out in early December over there, courtesy of Famitsu magazine’s review pages: – Ni no Kuni (10/9/9/10, 38 points): It could be argued that Level-5′s RPG is the most ambitious Nintendo DS game ever produced — animation by Ghibli, music by Joe Hisaishi, a fancy book of magic included in the package. Famitsu dug it, certainly.
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Cave Story Now Available on DSiWare
This week’s lineup of Nintendo downloads brings indie platformer Cave Story to the DS.
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Cave Story Now Available on DSiWare
EA Exec Claims "Movie-Game Business is Falling Apart"
Electronic Arts is moving in a very different direction than it used to as it tries to focus more on original IP and less on licensed-based games. Not only does it see more potential in original IPs, but EA Games president Frank Gibeau believes that “the movie-game business is falling apart.” Speaking in an interview with Develop , Gibeau explained the motivation behind dropping the James Bond license: “We dumped that licence because we felt like we needed to own more intellectual property, and we don’t like where James Bond is going with all the creative limitations on it.
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Cyber Monday Videogame Deals Cheat Sheet 2010
Black Friday has come and gone, and if you’re not too exhausted from waking at the crack of dawn to snag the best deals, you can still find some bargains yet to come. The Monday after Thanksgiving has been nicknamed “Cyber Monday,” as online retailers see a boost from employees shopping from their offices.
