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- Video Game Research Library
- With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well – PC Gamer (2026)
- Vib-Ribbon: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game – The New York Times (2026)
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- Diablo IV PC Cooled With Real Human Blood Is Still Going Strong Two Years Later, Says Guy Who Won It – Aftermath (2026)
Most Recent: PS4
EA @ E3 14: Battlefield Hardline beta begins today on PC, PS4
It looks like EA still has one Battlefield Hardline surprise up their sleeves. After showing a very cool trailer for Visceral’s upcoming cops-and-robbers game, Sony’s Adam Boyes revealed that a multiplayer beta for the game is available RIGHT NOW for the PC and PS4. Interested players can sign up at Battlefield.com/hardline. I gotta say, this news almost makes the earlier leaks look like a very calculated marketing move on EA’s part.
Battlefield Hardline will be available for the PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, and Xbox 360 on October 21.
EA @ E3 14: PGA Tour 15 goes extreme
It looks like EA Sports isn’t just leaving Tiger Woods behind for their next golf game, they’re leaving behind realistic golf games as we know them. Even though it’s titled PGA Tour, the next golf game from EA Sports will include “extreme fantasy course” such as the middle of a naval battle.
Developed using the Frostbite 3 engine, PGA Tour will be available in Spring 2015. Fore! (That’s how many copies I plan to buy if this is half as much fun as it sounds).
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged E3 2014, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour
EA @ E3 14: Star Wars: Battlefront will be available in Spring 2015
EA is getting the Star Wars: Battlefront reveal out of the way early with the announcement that the game will be available in Spring 2015. That’s around six months ahead of Star Wars: Episode VII‘s theatrical debut, so 2015 should definitely scratch your Star Wars itch with a bunch of new books, movies, and games.
The publisher used their 2014 E3 Press Conference to show off a quick behind-the-scenes video (DICE went poking around in the Lucasfilm archives to get the look of their game just right) and we’ll have that for you soon.
MS @ E3 14: Assassin’s Creed: Unity will have four-player co-op
The headline says it all. During Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference, developers from Ubisoft have confirmed that Assassin’s Creed: Unity will include four-player cooperative play when it launches this Fall.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity will also be available for the PC and PS4. I have no idea why that went unmentioned at Microsoft’s Press Conference.
Rumor: TitanFall 2 is definitely coming to PS4
About a month ago, CEO Andrew Wilson told investors that EA had reached a deal with Respawn Entertainment to bring a “new Titanfall experiences to players worldwide.” At the time, we had no idea if Wilson was talking about additional DLC expansions or a sequel, but a new rumor is pointing towards a sequel… with a twist.
According to The Wall Street Journal, pre-production on TitanFall 2 has already begun and, surprise surprise, it’s in the works for the Xbox One and PS4. The Journal cited “a person close to the development effort” as their source, though EA refused to comment. Perhaps that’s because the publisher is planning a TitanFall 2 announcement for their E3 Press Conference, which is scheduled to begin in a few hours.
This scenario is probably unlikely, but Respawn has said all along that TitanFall became an Xbox-exclusive solely because it would have been too difficult to put it on both new-generation consoles at the same time. And in the three months since it’s release, the game has gone on to sell more than a million copies, so a PS4 sequel is almost a guarantee at this point.
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged TitanFall 2
Battlefield Hardline will be available October 21… see the E3 teaser trailer now
EA just can’t keep Battlefield Hardline a secret. Their original plan was to reveal Visceral Games’ cops-and-robbers crime drama during their E3 Press Conference, which is scheduled to be held today. Instead, the existence of the game leaked a bit early. And now, the E3 trailer is out in the wild ahead of their press conference too. But rather than run from the rumors, EA officially released the trailer themselves, confirming Hardline’s October 21 release date in the process.
We’ll hear more about Battlefield Hardline, which is believed to be in development for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, later today.
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix will be released on December 2
Square Enix has released the E3 2014 trailer and announced a release date for Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix. Players will be able to get their hands on the compilation beginning December 2. The compilation, which will be available exclusively for the PS3, will include high definition remakes of Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. Non-playable cinematic scenes from Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded will also be included to complete the story.
And don’t think Square Enix forgot about Kingdom Hearts III. While the PS4 and Xbox One title won’t be on display during next week’s E3 Expo, a small preview of the game is included at the end of the Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 trailer above.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged E3 2014, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix, Kingdom Hearts III
Your Madden NFL 15 cover athlete is… Richard Sherman
Maybe it was just me, but it feels like EA Sports and ESPN didn’t care about the Madden NFL 15 Cover Vote at all. After exhausting themselves counting 40 million votes last year in a massive 64-man tournament, this year’s tournament featured a simple 16-man competition. The public agreed with EA’s assessment and only cast nine million votes, less than 25% of last year’s total, over the course of this year’s contest. But now that all the votes have been tallied, EA Sports is ready to announce that the Madden NFL 15 cover athlete is… Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks.
Sherman becomes only the third defensive player to grace the cover of a Madden NFL game and only the second to do so solo after Madden NFL 2005‘s endorsement of Ray Lewis. For the curious, Troy Polamalu is the third player as he shared the cover of Madden NFL 10 with Larry Fitzgerald. And you can’t talk about the Madden cover without also talking about the Madden Curse. And Sherman, as is his way, is talking. The cornerback told ESPN: “I don’t believe in curses. I believe in God.”
However, EA Sports would prefer that we didn’t think about the Curse and instead focused on the first gameplay trailer of Madden NFL 15, which can be found after the break. (more…)