Electronic Arts-owned developer DICE used GDC 2013 to offer a glimpse into what next generation gaming will mean for gamers this fall.
The Electronic Arts-owned game studio is utilizing Kinect for Xbox 360 to allow gamers to speak to characters within the game world as they journey through the new science fiction role-playing game.
"It feels like the birth of a new industry, " says John Musser, the 45-year-old veteran of Bell Labs and Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) who runs Programmableweb.com.
But it's recognizable among the 12-to-24-year-old bracket that buys videogames like Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people )' Fight Night Round 3, which features a boxer, Big E, clearly modeled after Ogbogu.
As development budgets for games have risen, says Aubrey Hesselgren, a games-industry programmer, big publishers such as Electronic Arts and Activision have become risk-averse.
Since Meretzky worked on "Videogame Tycoon, " the idea has only grown more relevant, with Vivendi seizing control of Activision (nasdaq: ATVI - news - people ) last year and Electronic Arts launching its hostile bid for Take-Two.
And publishers like Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive are leaving all of that potential money on the table.
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Activision Blizzard competes with game developers such as Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive Software and casual gaming mainstays such as Zynga.
Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Epic Games and GameStop were among the major players represented when the meeting took place earlier this afternoon.
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Collectively, movie-based games have not been as popular as Electronic Arts' (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) sports-based titles or role-playing titans like World of Warcraft, made by Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Vivendi (other-otc: VIVEF - news - people ).
Electronic Arts ( ERTS - news - people ) and really has a very keen understanding of user interface design and gamification.
But Keiser chose Electronic Arts as a long-term keeper just days before the shares lost 25% of their value on a surprising and disappointing earnings announcement by the company.
The man who once had endorsement deals with blue-chip sponsors like Coca-Cola, Electronic Arts, Kraft and Nike was a pariah in the eyes of corporate America.
Electronic Arts ( ERTS - news - people ), is the best-selling sports videogame of all time, with more than 65 million copies sold since it was first released in 1988.
Namco joins a number of other game-makers trying to make multi-platform games, now that social games are spreading from browser to mobile, including everyone from the more traditional Electronic Arts to casual game-maker Bigpoint.
We asked in December if Vick is once again the face of the NFL. Sponsors are starting to reengage with Vick, with a Nissan dealership and sports gear company Unequal Technologies inking the star to deals (pre dog-fighting Vick had deals with Coca-Cola, Electronic Arts, Kraft and Nike).
Recently, Rooster Teeth completed work on the first-ever machinima-created broadcast commercials for Electronic Arts.
Shares of video game company Electronic Arts rose slightly in after-hours trading Tuesday after posting a narrower than expected quarterly loss on slightly stronger than anticipated sales.
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Electronic Arts this afternoon reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31, but the video game company offered June quarter guidance that fell shy of Street expectations.
Electronic Arts said that its in-house game teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in addition to BioWare, the team behind EA's existing Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.
Electronic Arts would finance the illicitly-created start-up in exchange for an ownership interest or exclusive distribution rights to the content created by their new company, which would produce video games for Electronic Arts instead of Activision.
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The cloud gaming platform spent its early years setting up the servers around the globe that allows top-tier PC games from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and over 40 game makers to seamlessly stream to PCs, laptops, tablets and now Smart TVs.
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Especially market leader Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ).
Of Take-Two refusing to sell to Electronic Arts , again at more than 2x the current level.
In an industry with well-known gaming players such as Electronic Arts, you may wonder why Glu is in the spotlight.
To reposition itself for the future, in quick succession, Electronic Arts acquired Playfish, a social-games developer, Chillingo, a mobile-games publisher, and Firemint, a mobile-games studio.
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Upcoming shooters from Electronic Arts and Activision will support 3-D.
Others, like Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) founder Trip Hawkins' new venture, Digital Chocolate, are using MochiAds to monetize content in new ways.
Big companies Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) and Lycos acquired startups years ago that specialized in casual games such as Pogo and Gamesville.
Videogame makers like Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) and Activision (nasdaq: ATVI - news - people ) have held up relatively well throughout the summer swoon.
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