The actual concept of an EA playground is one of the most wonderfully absurd things weve heard of in a while: a kind of compendium of EA games collected together in the style of a theme park. How excited you get by this prospect depends entirely on your age, because this one is aimed squarely at sticky-fingered youths. But theres no doubting it has a certain pizzazz. The minigame that were most looking forward to is Tetherball - the game that everyone loves until the ball swings right into ...
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Jun 18, 2007

EA Playground development confirmed

Wii News from N4G | EA Playground

Wii - EA Playground - EA Playground development confirmed

An all-new IP for DS and Wii that captures the nostalgia of your neighbourhood playground.

EA Playground was first revealed early last month, but today EA has official confirmed the game's development for Wii and Nintendo DS.

In development at EA Canada, Playground features game that are easy to pick-up-and-play by fully capitalising on the unique control mechanics of both the Wii and DS. Players will find themselves swinging the Wii-mote to excel in tetherball, or blowing into the DS microphone to fire spitballs or battle friends and family in dodgeball.
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Sep 6, 2006

Old games, new screens

PSP News | EA Replay

Wednesday 6 September 2006 You'll be able to play Road Rash, Desert Strike, Wing Commander and more while parking your behind on a bus soon, thanks to EA Replay, the PSP retro collection. We've uncovered some images of these old greats in their new widescreen-o-matic incarnations; just hit the image tab to see the ...
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Sep 1, 2006

EA Replay unveiled

PSP News | EA Replay

Megapublisher Electronic Arts announced today that it'll be dusting off 14 of its old 16-bit games - some classic, others less so - and jamming them together into a compilation called EA Replay, due to hit PSPs on Nov. 7. As has become standard for such collections, players will be able to challenge each other in certain games via an ad-hoc connection. Additionally, you'll be able to save your game at any point in any of the games (thank God) and unlock original game art as you play. Better ...
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Aug 15, 2006

EA announce MegaDrive retro-compilation

PSP News from N4G | EA Replay

PSP - EA Replay - EA announce MegaDrive retro-compilation

EA have announced details regarding a retro-collection of MegaDrive titles for the PSP entitled EA Replay Vol 1.
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Oct 7, 2009

EA Sports Active Announcement?

Wii News from N4G | EA Sports Active

Wii - EA Sports Active - EA Sports Active Announcement?

Feed Your Console Says:

Just this afternoon the community manager for the EA Sports Active brand "Active Girl" posted a Twitter announcement at 2:22EST that there would be a big announcement coming today sometime.

"Big EA SPORTS Active announcement coming up later today! Can't wait to tell you what's coming up!!"
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Aug 11, 2009

EA Sports Active player base split evenly between men and women

Wii News from N4G | EA Sports Active

Wii - EA Sports Active - EA Sports Active player base split evenly between men and women

As you likely noticed if you've turned on a TV in the past few months, EA Sports Active is being marketed pretty heavily towards the female demographic. So you can imagine the company's surprise when, as they told Joystiq earlier today, customer satisfaction surveys from its research group indicated that the Active audience was split evenly between men and women.

"Although we focused our marketing campaign on women, EA Sports Active was designed to accommodate everyone and our consumer base reflects that," Monique Gomel, marketing director for the game, told Joystiq.
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Aug 5, 2009

EA Expanding EA Sports Active, Confirms Madden Arcade

Wii News from N4G | EA Sports Active

Wii - EA Sports Active - EA Expanding EA Sports Active, Confirms Madden Arcade

EA Sports said Tuesday that EA Sports Active sold 1.8 million units during its June quarter, making the game the publisher's "best-selling Wii title ever."

The company intends to maintain the high sales momentum through unconventional marketing and distribution that saw the game advertised on QVC and sold at Dick's Sporting Goods, for example. The success has also prompted EA to release an expansion for the game later this year.

"Given the success of EA Sports Active, we've decided to launch an expansion pack this holiday. We are using development using from our tennis team on our EA Sports Active franchise," said Peter Moore, president of the publisher's EA Sports label.
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