EA’s Casual Entertainment Label announced earlier this morning that the Boogie franchise is returning this October in Boogie Superstar. The game, which is Wii exclusive this time around, will allow players to sing, customize their own characters, and pull off dance moves with the Wii Remote to the game’s track list of over 40 songs. [...]

Those of us who are moderate TV watchers have probably come across one of John McCain’s ads for his upcoming presidential run. Die-hard gamers likely picked up on the music, which happens to pulled from EA’s Medal of Honor: European Assault. The McCain campaign has done nothing wrong legally, but composer Christopher Lennertz posted a [...]

Neil Young has left his post as Vice President/General Manager at EA Los Angeles to form his own company, according to the Level Up Blog.
Most recently, Young was responsible for the excellent Boom Blox, The Sims 2, and Medal of Honor:Airborne. There is no news at this point on what his new company will be [...]

Electronic Arts announced this morning they have again extended their proposal offer for Take-Two to July 18 at 11:59 p.m. The previous deadline, last night before midnight, expired last night with no response from either company.
“Our offer price remains unchanged at $25.74 per share, which is a substantial premium to where Take-Two’s stock was trading [...]

Electronic Arts is currently waiting on the FTC to complete its investigation into their acquisition proposal for Take-Two, but it hasn’t stopped people from talking about the possible alternatives in the meantime. While Ubisoft’s name has popped up recently as a possible suitor, what about Activision?
UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter says it’s unlikely:
Schachter notes that despite [...]

Songs from the three finalists of 2007’s Dew Circuit Breakout will be next week’s Rock Band DLC, or at least part of it.
As confirmed by the Santa Barbara Independent tonight, “Bullets and Guns” by third-place band Them Terribles will be included, in addition to songs by runner-up The Material and winner The Myriad. The [...]

Well, that didn’t take long. A day after launching the game’s teaser site, Electronic Arts and Crytek confirmed that Crysis Warhead will make its way exclusively to the PC this fall.
For Warhead, players will take control of ‘Psycho’ (Sergeant Sykes) and play a parallel story that takes place during the events of the original game. [...]

Electronic Arts has agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to hold off on buying Take-Two, according to a report today on Reuters.
The agreement, which will last until either regulators complete their probe or 45 days pass, was put in place for the FTC to more thoroughly review the nearly $2 billion proposal made by EA [...]

Closing in on nine months since the original release of Crysis on the PC back in November, it appears that Crytek is getting ready to release some information on a new title in the series.
Over at the official website for the game, a new teaser image (also shown above) is prominently displayed under the title [...]

Visual Concepts will now be in control of the MLB 2K and NHL 2K brand of games for 2K Sports, according to a news story posted on 1UP.com. They take over development duties from the now defunct Kush Games.
Ben Brinkman, former developer of the MLB 2K series, has switched jobs and moved to Activision.
The company [...]

It appears that being a virtual rock star is beginning to pay off for some folks. This morning, The Ant Commandos, makers of guitar controllers that are compatible with both Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, revealed that they’ve signed 16-year old Chris Chike as their new spokesperson in an exclusive, long-term deal to promote [...]

The first in a collaboration between EA and Steven Spielberg, Boom Blox is an inventive feature packed puzzle game loaded with ingenious fun. While not all of its mechanics click, the central concept of physics based block breaking is strong enough to widen the appeal and make this an addictive romp through all of its [...]

One of the games I’ve definitely got my eyes on this summer is Battlefield Heroes, the free downloadable game from DICE for the PC. Aside from the aforementioned cost, the thought of just hopping straight into a game on almost any computer thanks to it being light on requirements makes it all the more appealing [...]

The game that’s got mainstream media everywhere talking is getting ready to make its North American debut, as Nintendo launches Wii Fit later this week. Picking up steam ever since it was initially announced at last year’s E3, Wii Fit has already sold out of pre-orders at a few key retailers with more expected to [...]

Electronic Arts’ deadline for their acquisition offer to Take-Two quietly passed on May 16 with no response, so EA announced this morning that they have extended that deadline to June 16.
“Extending our offer will allow the FTC review process to continue,” said Owen Mahoney, Senior Vice President of EA Corporate Development. “EA’s offer price remains [...]

Electronic Arts announced their financial results for both the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 yesterday afternoon, with a mixture of positive and negative news. Thanks to titles like Army of Two, Burnout Paradise, and Rock Band, the company’s revenue was up 84% to $1.127 billion in the fourth quarter, with sales of $3.665 billion [...]

Whether or not you enjoyed The Simpsons Game last year, nobody can argue that EA didn’t produce some creative (and humorous) trailers for it. Earlier today, one of them was honored as “Medal of Homer” picked up a Golden Trailer Award presented by Hammer Creative.
Missed out on the trailer when it was released last year? [...]

One of last year’s breakout new sports titles, Skate, is now making its way to the Wii and DS in the form of Skate It. Announced by EA this morning, these new versions of the game are being developed from the ground up with the systems’ strengths in mind as well, with the Wii version [...]

The upcoming PC versions of Mass Effect and Spore will no longer require a 10-day SecuROM check online to re-validate, according to a statement made yesterday by Electronic Arts. While the games will still both utilize the DRM service, the only time it will now be required is when you initally install the game or [...]