Today Scott Orr, the man who oversaw EA’s original John Madden Football and NHL Hockey launched a new publishing and development studio called D2C Games designed to bring casual, episodic games to multiple platforms, with particular interest in the PSP.
I spoke with Orr for my day job at Gamasutra which is fairly interesting reading, if I do say so myself. Essentially, D2C is making casual real-time strategy sports games and episodic sci fi and horror games for multiple platforms, from next-gen consoles to mobile phones and PCs.
“Our games will appeal to casual gamers as well as hard core gamers who simply don’t have the time to devote hours to a game,” Orr commented in the interview, “but who still want to be able to team up and play with friends. Social networking is a key driver that is going to set us apart, allowing users to create game content and personalize the game.”
They are also hitting the PSP hard with the launch of DA
And here’s the trailer for Codemaster’s Heatseaker for the Wii. The video shows off how the Wii controls will work, and I gotta say, it looks both fast and fun. Chalk this one up on my list of Wii games to try out.
Electronic Arts issued a puzzling press release today, proclaiming that “music from ALL EA games is now on iTunes.” This is a lie, much to my chagrin. In truth, EA has released some music from a handful of games over the popular digital download service, including Madden NFL, NASCAR, and event the upcoming Burnout Dominator.
The company also notes that today marks the world debut of the version of The Doors’ Riders on the Storm that Snoop Dogg remixed exclusively for Need for Speed Underground. The songs are live in North America today and will be available soon throughout Europe.
Visit the [url=http://www.ea.com/eatrax/]EA Trax website[/url] to see if there is something there that interests you. Me, I’m sticking my classic era MIDI collection.
Sure we might have wanted the game in early summer, but Irrational has now revealed the upcoming highly anticipated BioShock will head to retail outlets just as summer is winding to a close.
According to a post on the game’s official site:
[quote]The headline says it all: BioShock’s street date is August 21st. That’s a Tuesday, for all you who might be planning your “sick” days in advance.
