Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ships for every platform under the sun this week.
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Three new Harry Potter videos apparate onto the web originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It reads like so many rhythm/music game releases in the past — the ubiquitous track list leak. The Beatles: Rock Band is still a few months off from its September 9 release date but Ripten has gotten its hands on a leaked list of the possible tracks from the game (found after the break).
The list does include the three tracks we checked out in our hands-on with the game at E3, though it also looks an awful lot like a list of Beatles singles across their career. Ripten notes that the ten tracks found in the glorious opening to the game are all included in its leaked list — and it is approximately the same amount of tracks we know the game will be shipping with — though we’ve yet to receive any official confirmation or denial from MTV Games, Harmonix, or EA.
Update: A Harmonix spokesperson has confirmed to us that this leaked list of songs is definitely not the track list for The Beatles: Rock Band, saying, “The rumored ‘leaked’ list is not the disc track listing for The Beatles: Rock Band. We’ll be announcing more tracks throughout the summer. Stay tuned to thebeatlesrockband.com for the most up to date information about disc songs and downloadable content!”
Continue reading Rumor: The Beatles: Rock Band track list leaked [update]
Rumor: The Beatles: Rock Band track list leaked [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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According to EA’s Joe Booth, plans for the Nintendo Wii are “long-term” at EA, as the company tries to strike a good balance of titles for the popular platform in 2009. In an interview with the Official Nintendo Magazine, the senior producer for Electronic Arts’ Nintendo group said the company wants to “take some risks” with Nintendo’s home console.
“The industry has woken up to the Wii,” Booth told the mag. In his own estimation, Booth — who is overseeing Need for Speed Nitro for Wii — feels the Wii has a lot of “new energy,” which drives his group’s passion. Perhaps Nintendo’s energy stems from sailing high above the competition in hardware sales.
Electronic Arts has a slew of Wii exclusive software planned for 2009, including EA Sports Active and Dead Space: Extraction, along with special Wii versions of its annual sports franchises.
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EA wants to ‘take some risks’ on Wii originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 21 May 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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When it comes to the realm of board games, Hasbro is quite the … player. Over the past couple of decades, it has absorbed Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Avalon Hill, Wizards of the Coast, Cranium, and others. Chances are that any board game, not to mention toys, you used to play with as a kid are now owned by Hasbro.
In 2007, Electronic Arts signed an exclusive agreement with Hasbro to produce games based on some of the items in its vaults, and so far we’ve seen Scrabble, Hasbro Family Game Night, Trivial Pursuit, and more. EA also just announced Hasbro Family Game Night 2 for the Wii and DS, due out later this fall, which will add Pictureka, Bop-It, Operation, Jenga and others to the mix.
But where are the titles like Risk, Axis & Allies, and Dark Tower? We spoke to Steve Flege, Senior Marketing Director for Hasbro Digital and Kyle Murray, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Electronic Arts about the deal, the first games we’ve seen, the pricing structure, and what’s coming up next. The good news: we might be getting Risk on next-gen consoles. It’s been on the PC, the PS1, the PS2, and the original Xbox, so it’s about time. Roll those sixes!
Continue reading Joystiq interview: the EA/Hasbro game agreement
Joystiq interview: the EA/Hasbro game agreement originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 May 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Asked how he felt given the large portion of Nintendo’s userbase seemingly disinterested in mature games, Schofield remarked, “I’m confident — it is an experiment, but there’s going to be 50 million Wiis out there by the time the game comes out, so if you only hit 2 per cent of the installed base and you’ve got a huge number.”
Dead Space Extraction is EA ‘experiment’ in mature content for Wii originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 May 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ammunition is not the only scarcity in Dead Space Extraction. In fact, flashlights seem even more difficult to come by, as miners on Aegis 7 are left to keep their wits about them basked in the comforting greenish hue of a “glow worm.” The game’s equivalent of glow sticks, glow worms offer an unlimited source of light that must be recharged by shaking the Wii remote.
As mentioned following our recent time with the game, the mechanic, which is described in greater detail on EA’s Dead Space blog, certainly ups the scare factor. Still, we can’t help but wonder if — after 10 or so hours of vigorous shaking — these glow worms will leave us clutching our arms, reeling from a wholly different kind of strategic dismemberment.
Dead Space Extraction ‘glow worms’ offer unlimited light, arm cramps originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 05 May 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In a recent interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, Electronic Arts’ Steve Papoutsis explained that he’s hoping Dead Space: Extraction will “push the boundaries of what a mature game on the Wii means.”
Yeah, good luck with that.
EA wants to push mature content boundaries with Dead Space: Extraction originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Electronic Arts is totally serious about including ill-tempered tennis legend John McEnroe in EA Sports’ upcoming Wii release, Grand Slam Tennis. According to EA, McEnroe will be just one of several “all-time greats” in the upcoming title, which is expected to take to the court on June 16.
Hopefully EA will package more than just McEnroe’s likeness with the game. We can’t think of a better use of the promised MotionPlus support than mirroring his juvenile antics on screen as we toss our Wii remote aside in disgust when calls don’t go our way.
John McEnroe headlines EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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These videos for Skate It — today’s and others — beg one major question: how long is it going to be before people start busting their Balance Boards? A week after the game’s fall release? A day? The one thing we’re sure of is that it’s going to happen. Boards will be busted. People will cry. But in the meantime, we’re going to lean into lots of fun, and all without having to brave the prospect of introducing various body parts to the rough, hard asphalt.
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