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Electronic Arts EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Mass: We Pray is really a Dante's Inferno viral 16 Earlier this week, we got an e-mail about Mass: We Pray, a Wii-like game where you Church at home. The Web site and video for the "game" was pretty outrageous, and pretty much bordered on heresy... Saboteur 'sent out to die,' Pandemic closure was 'right' 29 It was incredibly surprising to hear that Pandemic -- a studio hard at work on the The Saboteur -- had been eradicated by Electronic Arts during a wave of layoffs. Despite the surprising turn of ... New EA store sells EA Sports Active, and nothing else 19 Apparently EA Sports Active is so important that it deserves its own store. Throughout the run-up to Christmas, Electronic Arts will be operating two stores in San Fransisco and Boston, and EA Sp... Grab these Bad Company 2 beta codes while you can! 1030 The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta begins tomorrow for PlayStation 3 owners! The beta is made up of one map, one mode and supports 24 players. Read my preview to get more info on what you can e... Rumor: Dead Space 2 to have multiplayer 51 We here at Destructoid have been hearing all sorts of rumors relating to Dead Space 2 and a multiplayer mode. From what we know, it's definitely happening, but it's nothing we can declare as fact... The Dante's Inferno figure looks pretty hot (Update) 8 Last month, we brought you a very early look at the Dante's Inferno action figure. Now, NECA Online shows us exactly what the figure will look like. Dante has 30 points of articulation and a inte... Madden NFL Arcade hitting November 24th and 25th 7 EA plans to release Madden NFL Arcade during Thanksgiving week.The downloadable casual Madden experience hits the PS Store November 24th and then Xbox LIVE Arcade on the 25th. But the price of no... Sims 3 World Adventures out November 17 5 A couple of months back, we told you that EA was planning on releasing songs performed by real singers in Simlish, the language Sims speak in Sims games. The first song by Nelly Furtado, "Manos ... $1 million and counting: Dragon Age DLC selling well 40 Despite offering several boxed sets and a single pre-order edition of Dragon Age: Origins that all included most of the game’s day-one DLC, Bioware and EA still made a good bit of coin thro... Command & Conquer 4 hits March 16, beta program announced 20 March 16. Mark it down.  That's the day the Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight hits store shelves. EA says the game will bring "the 15 year-long fan-beloved Tiberium saga to an epic a... These Brutal Legend shirts are f**king metal 15 Double Fine and Mishka NYC teamed up to produce two of the most metal f**king shirts you have ever seen in your life. The Headbanger graphic was created by James Callahan and "brings a scene of p... Pre-order Dante's Inferno, get figure from fires of hell 7 When Visceral and Electronic Arts announced the Dante's Inferno demo for December, I breathed a sigh of relief. It was not, as many demos seem to be these days, tied in to a pre-order bonus. Inst... Medal of Honor: Modern Combat seems inevitable 38 World War II? That's so 1944! A few weeks ago we talked to you about Medal of Honor: Modern Combat, a name that had been trademarked by Electronic Arts and seemed to indicate that the series woul... EA frustrated over a 'weak' Wii 34 Silver-haired king of Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello, has confessed that his company is feeling frustration over the current performance of a "weak" Wii, with Nintendo's smash-hit superconsole... New screens for The Saboteur do not have any sex in them 6 If you thought that Pandemic's The Saboteur was all about brothels and boobs, then you're going to be faintly disappointed, because apparently there's more to it than that. While there's plenty o... The latest look at Dante's Inferno brings us to Heresy 13 Dante's quest will take him through all of the Circles of Hell and the latest developer diary for Dante's Inferno brings us to Heresy. As Dante gets lower in Hell, the more Hellish things become... EA has not forgotten about the Medal of Honor franchise 27 Hey, remember Medal of Honor? It was that other World War II game that people loved so much. The last we heard of the series was in 2007 with Medal of Honor: Airborne and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2... EA cuts jobs, scraps over a dozen game projects 23 On the heels of today's announcement that Electronic Arts acquired social games developer Playfish comes some bad news. EA has cut 1,500 positions spanning multiple studios such as Redwood Shores... Plan on seeing Criterion's Need for Speed game next year 12 The revitalization of Need for Speed as a franchise must be going well, because the Criterion-developed NFS game is very much alive and kicking. You can look, but you can't touch. Wait, no -- you... EA buys Playfish for HUGE MONEY 24 A little factoid that usually cruises under "hardcore" gamers' radar is that casual games make money. Make a lot of money. So much money that casual game company execs regularly regularly take mo... EA signs Strikeforce for upcoming MMA title 28 The headline of this story basically says it all, but since I admittedly know little about the world of mixed martial arts, I turned to another source -- friend and Destructoid reader, Kevvo.&nbs... Skate 3 trailer has got the eyes of a panther 5 Hopefully, by now you've had a chance to check out my preview on Skate 3. Looks to be a fairly solid entry into the series, one fans are surely going to get a kick out of come next May. Anyway, ... Teaming up and throwing down with Skate 3 12 It's funny looking back on the old battle between skateboarding videogames. Ever since the original Tony Hawk, plenty of skateboarding games have come and gone, and other than the eternal old bir... The rush that is Bad Company 2's multiplayer 39 The signature multiplayer mode from the original Battlefield: Bad Company, Gold Rush, is back in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now simply called Rush, two teams battle it out on a slowly expanding ... Waste time with new Spore Islands Facebook game 8 As if you didn't already spend enough time on Facebook stalking your ex or laughing at pictures of people you knew in high school, Maxis has given you another reason to sit on the social networki... Ten Minute Taste: Need for Speed: NITRO 9 Electronic Arts' Wii-exclusive racer, Need for Speed: NITRO hits, hits stores today and here are the first ten minutes of gameplay.  Color me surprised when, not long after booting up the g... Tim Schafer walks us through the Brutal Legend DLC 12 The new Brutal Legend DLC, "Tears of the Hextadon", is out this week and is bringing two new maps to multiplayer. To prepare players for the new content, Double Fine's Tim Schafer hosted a multi... The Sims: The movie 11 I would take this over an Asteroids movie any day. And yes, in case you've been living under a rock, there really is an Asteroids movie in the works. The funniest part about this trailer is a tw... Fight Night Round 4 now $39.99, new DLC hits December 2 If you had been waiting to pick up Fight Night Round 4, Electronic Arts wants your business. The EA Sports-branded title now costs $39.99 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.  You can use th... American McGee's Alice returns in 2011 51 American McGee's Alice is coming back with a fresh coat of paint, and we have a brand new teaser trailer to prove it. Return of Alice will be a remake of the original game, courtesy of Electroni... No sh*t: Dead Space 2 penciled in for 2010 43 Really? Are people really surprised by this? The story goes that Reuters of all places has "let slip" the fact that Visceral's Dead Space 2 is going to be released next year. EA has never officia... First EA Sports MMA screen looks realistic, smelly 29 Pick up the latest issue of Sports Illustrated and inside you'll find some stuff about sports, yes. But what you'll also find is a single screenshot of EA Sports' upcoming mixed-martial arts titl... These Dante's Inferno PSP screens are needlessly huge 10 I don't really care how contrived Dante's Inferno may or may not be. As a die-hard action fanatic, I'll be playing it either way -- on a console, that is. As for the PlayStation Portable version,... What's in the Dante's Inferno box? 75 Electronic Arts is at it again, continuing its Dante's Inferno marketing/PR-related mailbox assault. Yesterday, a gigantic box cardboard box showed up. Inside that box was big and dirty wood... Rumor: Next Boom Blox to land on 360/PS3 33 Superannuation, some of the best internet Matlocks around, have discovered something very interesting. It's a job listing for the team at EA that makes Boom Blox. It's pretty straight forward for... Dragon Age: Origins arrived in a box of straw 53 Seriously, a box of straw. I'm not sure if this is the best or worst marketing idea I've seen so far, but considering my carpet now has dirt and grit all over it after opening this package unawar... Purple bullets and co-op kills: Army of Two: The 40th Day 10 You know, I've been looking at Army of Two: The 40th Day for about six months now. After an initial preview, followed by another hands-off opportunity at E3, as well as a solid play through of th... Army of Two: The 40th Day's Extraction mode revealed 13 In an effort to increase reservations of Army of Two: The 40th Day as well as steer potential buyers away from picking up a used copy of the game a day after launch, EA is offering one-month excl... Confirmed: The Saboteur can destroy planes, smack Nazis 10 Our brains are now jammed with thoughts of big October games like Uncharted 2 or Borderlands. And it doesn’t look like November will be easier on ye’ old big pile of pink mush with Le... Amazon jumps aboard the Dragon Age preorder train 34 It's simply not enough that GameStop and Steam are offering preorder bonuses for Dragon Age: Origins, or that there is a standard edition, Collector's Edition and Digital Deluxe edition to choose... Mass Effect 2 gets January 26 release date 59 Start working on your best Commander Shepard impressions -- BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 2 will be hitting North American shelves on January 26. Europe needs to hold tight for a few day... Blur join LEGO Rock Band (Woo Hoo) 31 Damon Albarn and the boys from Blur are bringing their nineties Britpop nonsense to LEGO Rock Band, becoming the latest stars to be LEGOfied in EA's latest attempt to wrestle the music game crown... EA announces Madden NFL Arcade for PSN, XBLA 20 Electronic Arts has announced that it will be bringing Madden NFL Arcade to PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade "just in time for the holidays in December."Developed by EA Tiburon,... Command & Conquer 4 screens love them some neon colors 8 Similar to the shift from Dawn of War to its successor, so too will Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight have less of an emphasis on all-out base building. Not that there isn't a time and a... Review: Brutal Legend 345 Despite having only developed one game prior, there were a lot of expectations for Double Fine Productions' follow-up, Brütal Legend. With founder Tim Schafer behind the wheel, this heavy me... Dragon Age: Origins DLC planned for the next two years 31 So yes, BioWare loves downloadable content. Not only will Dragon Age: Origins DLC be available on the game's launch date, the developer is also planning to further drain our bank accounts with co... Mass Effect 2 PS3 listings are incorrect, says EA 39 Just like that time when the official EA Web site had Left 4 Dead 2 listed as a PS3-bound title, the publisher says the recent smattering of Mass Effect 2 PS3 listings are bogus. In a conversatio... Dante enters anger, hits things with his scythe 23 Another month and another layer of hell in the videogame version of Dante's Inferno. This month brings us to Anger, in which things get really angry... or something. According to the devs anger m... '300'-dude to make music for Army of Two: the 40th Day 6 Butt-slapping, blinged-out guns, and music can mix. At least, that’s what EA Montreal is thinking. The studio announced earlier this afternoon that film and television composer Tyler Bates ... EA brings books to Nintendo DS with FLIPS 14 When it comes to reading books, I'm totally old fashioned: I don't like the Kindle, I don't want to read them on my iPhone, I don't want an audio book. I want the delicious experience of opening ... Why yes, Rock Band is coming to iPhone/iPod Touch 4 So of course Rock Band is coming to the iPhone (and iPod Touch), right? This October, you can tap away on Apple's little touch-screen to 20 songs, with music from Blondie, the Smashing Pumpk... NO! Video of canceled Mutant League game surfaces 18 Oh man. Today is just full of sad news. First we found out that a The Flash game was in the works. Then we saw what would have been a new Road Rash game. To top it all off, there was also a next... Want to see some Road Rash HD? Check it out! 77 EA Warrington's new Road Rash game is in the works, and some previsualization test footage has been uncovered. This is just rough conceptual stuff at the moment, but even the bare-bones video yo... Dragon Age gets 'Warden Keep' DLC at launch 57 Everybody loves launch-day DLC, right? It reminds them that content has been included and withheld from the disc, which means is a good thing because of reasons. Anyway, what I really need to tel... NFS: Shift plus five more from EA arrive on Steam 9 It seems somewhat odd how EA doesn't automatically put its wares up on Steam as soon as they become available by other means.For instance, six of the studio's videogames became available on the d... Rumor: First details on Visceral Games' The Ripper 81 As you heard this morning, EA’s Visceral Studios is working on a game based on the famous 19th century serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Our sources dropped hints about the title to us back i... Dante's Inferno dev making Jack the Ripper game 32 Not content to murder literature with Dante's Inferno, EA's Visceral Studios will soon be raping history with a game based on London's notorious Jack the Ripper. At least, that's what the LA Time... Dragon Age, Army of Two getting comic book treatment 6 Videogames and comic books. Is there no greater marriage? Not according to the many publishers that want their upcoming game committed to ink for all eternity, in any case. The latest company to ... Dog-faced football fan suing EA for Madden likeness theft 17 Best headline ever. Cleveland Browns fan John Thompson is known for representing his beloved football team by wearing a terrifying bulb-eyed dog mask. You'd think the man would be happy to appear... Rumor: Medal of Honor going 'modern combat'? 23 It's like Electronic Arts is in the Stone Age with their Medal of Honor games and its World War II setting. 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