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EA holds on to FIFA license (2006 FIFA World Cup)

Apr 27, 2006

Electronic Arts has extended its exclusive licensing deal with soccer's governing body FIFA up to the year 2014, which means we have at least another eight versions of its FIFA soccer sim to look forward to. The licensing deal allows EA to include players' names and likenesses, official team logos and kits for all console, PC, mobile and web-based games. This is a major success for EA, as its FIFA-branded soccer sim series has been a huge seller ever since the first one was released back in ...

EA holds on to FIFA licence (2006 FIFA World Cup)

Apr 27, 2006

Thursday 27 April 2006 Electronic Arts has extended its exclusive licensing deal with football's governing body, FIFA, up to the year 2014, which means we have at least another eight versions of its FIFA football sim to look forward to. The licensing deal allows EA to include players' names and likenesses, official team logos and kits for all console, PC, mobile and web-based games. This is a major success for EA, as its FIFA branded football sim series has been a huge seller ever since the ...

Online FIFA World Cup 'free' in May (2006 FIFA World Cup)

Apr 26, 2006

Wednesday 26 April 2006 Microsoft and EA are allowing gamers to play 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany on Xbox Live for free for a short time in May. To build footie fever among gamers before the FIFA World Cup starts, 360 owners with the free Live Silver membership will be upgraded to subscription-only Gold membership for one week from 8-15 May, allowing them to play just the EA football game. This upgrade will happen automatically once users go online. EA is calling this event its Free-for-All ...

Foot Soldiers (2006 FIFA World Cup)

Apr 18, 2006

With its US release just a week away, 2006 FIFA World Cup seems to have a lot to make up for. Soccer fans were less than pleased with last year's FIFA 06, and EA's really trying to convince us that this title is more related to the better-received 2002 World ...

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is official (Beyond Good and Evil)

May 28, 2008

Ubisoft has just officially confirmed that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is on the way at it's UbiDays event in Paris.

It was a brief unveiling, giving away no gameplay specifics or even which platforms it's headed to, Ubi only showing a short trailer of series heroine Jade in an open desert doing... nothing much. ...

Nothing yet from Ubi on Beyond Good & Evil sequel (Beyond Good and Evil)

May 15, 2008

The sequel to Beyond Good & Evil, almost unequivocally one of the most missed games of the last generation, has been in production for over a year according to the main lead. Ubisoft has yet to say anything about it though.

Speaking to Jeux Video magazine, creative lead Michel Ancel confirmed its development, but revealed that it's currently only being developed by a small team as Ubisoft has yet to give it the green ...

New Lego Bionicle game (Bionicle Heroes)

May 4, 2006

Eidos announced today that it has a new Lego Bionicle game slated for fall 2006, and they've tapped the team behind the incredibly successful Lego Star Wars to get it done. Set in the Bionicle universe, Bionicle Heroes charges you to play as a hero that has crossed over from the real world to save plastic block warriors in a third-person style ...

Cars (Cars)

May 18, 2006

Lately, we've seen a lot of movie-based games that try to expand on - instead of directly adapt - the story of the film they're based on. The Godfather did it, Over the Hedge did it and this summer, Cars will do it. Picking up where the movie left off, Cars casts players as red stock-car Lightning McQueen and sets them loose to explore the colorful desert town of Radiator Springs. ...

Smile! It's time for Chibi-Robo screens (Chibi Robo)

Feb 27, 2006

Here's a helping of screens from Chibi-Robo, Nintendo's charming robot adventure for Gamecube. It's been available in Japan for several months already, but now it's on its way to the US and we've got the shots for you to coo over. Unlike the stars of most Japanese games centred on robots, Chibi is tiny. At three inches tall, he makes up for his lack of ability to swat airplanes and stomp buildings by helping out a depressed family; cleaning their home, listening to their problems and making ...

Donkey Kong returns to the arcades (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)

Feb 20, 2007

Donkey Kong Banana Kingdom looks like a spiritual sequel to Jungle Beat, a brilliant 2D-style platformer on GameCube made unique by its use of the Bongo controllers. Donkey Kong will hit Japanese arcades housed in a huge three-player arcade cabinet. With nothing but two buttons on the control panel of the cabinet, a similar control style to Jungle Beat, which saw players hit the button repeatedly to run left and right. The three player functionality will presumably allow players to compete in ...

Beats, bongos and beatings in Kong's new platformer (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)

Dec 2, 2004

Lightguns, trackballs, Airpads, maracas, light-pens, Kempston Pro joysticks. Yes, every novelty peripheral has its 15 seconds in your sweaty palms before it's condemned forever to the same dank Dreamcast/PC Engine-laden corner. But that's not so with the bongos left over from Donkey Konga because Nintendo have found another use for the drums. And it doesn't involve propping doors open. DK Jungle Beat once again uses the drums to control Donkey Kong but, instead of matching beats and claps, ...

Eternal Darkness sequel soon? (Eternal Darkness II)

Jul 11, 2006

GameCube classic Eternal Darkness almost certainly has a sequel on the way, according to Denis Dyack, director of developer Silicon Knights. Dyack has revealed in his blog that the three-game approach the team took to the forthcoming Xbox 360 game Too Human was always a possibility for Eternal Darkness. Every time the team designs a game, he says, it is intended to tell a story within a larger universe and that other stories are still there to be told. This means that Too Human's - and now ...

Got skills? (FIFA Street 2)

Mar 2, 2006

If you think you've got more flik-flaks than Ronaldinho, or can out-spin Zidane, Electronic Arts wants to see you in action. Head over to www.fifastreet2.com and hit Show Your Skillz and you could find yourself starring in a future FIFA Street game. There's already a bundle of uploaded clips, and some of them are so tricksy they made our eye-spheres spin in their sockets. Get practising, chuck your video on the site and get in the ...

FIFA Street 2: First details, shots and movie (FIFA Street 2)

Feb 27, 2006

With FIFA 06 currently sitting pretty atop this week's all-format chart, EA has announced that a follow-up to the series' urban spin-off, FIFA Street, is in the works and will be in shops next spring. FIFA Street 2 promises to be bigger and better, flashier and fancier than the original, boasting new tricks, skills and ball-blazing gamebreakers. International locations - ranging from London's grimy Westway through to bright beachside pitches in Brazil - will feature and there will be a roster ...

F-Zero Wii to be unveiled at E3? (F-Zero GX)

Apr 10, 2008

A new F-Zero game for Wii will be unveiled by Nintendo at E3, currently named as F-Zero Z.

According to German website Nintendo-Planet.de, the new title will feature all the tracks of F-Zero GX and include an online mode.

More cryptically, the site also states that "a weapon system has also been confirmed". We imagine that has more to do with the Babel Fish translation missing something subtle in the language, ...

Holy crap! Golden Joysticks breezes past 600,000 votes (Gamecube)

Oct 2, 2008

You read that right number fans - this year's Golden Joystick Awards has now amassed 600,000 votes. Immense! ...

Reminder: Vote in the Golden Joystick Awards NOW! (Gamecube)

Sep 26, 2008

The 26th Annual Golden Joysticks are almost upon us. And, if you’ve still not voted for your favourite games, publisher and developer yet, now is the time. Like, right now ...

GamerBlips highlights best of video game blogs (Gamecube)

Sep 25, 2008

Take your eye off the Web for a split second and you may not recognize it. Gaming information blasts out in a 24/7 cycle from Websites, blogs, and a barrage of social networking apps that dominate how people converse, socialize, and gather information. ...

GamesRadar is getting even more better (Gamecube)

Aug 21, 2008

GamesRadar is pleased to announce that in the next few weeks users will be able to get properly involved with their favourite gaming site and become an important part of the dysfunctional-but-happy GR family thanks to the introduction of a host of dazzling new community features ...

Nintendo Power turns 20! (Gamecube)

Jul 3, 2008

We've seen a lot of gaming magazines rise and fall the past few years, considerably more if you go all the way back to the industry's heyday in the '80s. The way the magazine market is today, it's a major accomplishment when one makes it to 100 issues. Consider then, the milestone that is the 20th anniversary issue of ...