The Year in EA: More Dragon Age, Epic Shooter & More

[DoctorFinger]

While it hasn't been all puppies and rainbows lately for Electronic Arts - in just the last few moths they've announced major layoffs and plans to cut back on their slate of games - they still have a number of major games in the pipeline. As part of their quarterly investor report, EA detailed their release schedule for the next twelve months. You can see the full slate by clicking the 'more' button, but some of the highlights:

- APB and the next Medal of Honor game are both set to release the third quarter of 2010 (July to September).
- Crysis 2, a pair of EA Sports Active titles for the WiiFit and a console version of Sims 3 highlight this coming holiday season.
- The Q1 2011 will see Dead Space 2, the next Dragon Age game, a new Spore game and EA's new Epic-developed shooter.

All of this and the usual servings of EA Sports, Harry Potter and Need For Speed games. EA also has at least three stand alone downloadable games, one of which is a digital trading card (DTC) game.

[LIST][*]Q1 FY2011 - April 1 through June 30, 2010

• Skate 3 (Console)
• Need for Speed World (PC)
• 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (Console, Handheld)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 11 (Console, Handheld)

[*]Q2 FY2011 - July 1 through September 30, 2010

• APB/All Points Bulletin (PC)
• Medal of Honor Title TBA (Console, Handheld, PC)
• NCAA Football 11 (Console, Handheld, PC)
• EA SPORTS FIFA Online (PC)
• Madden NFL 11 (Console, Handheld)
• FIFA 11 (Console, Handheld, PC)
• NHL 11 (Console)
• Monopoly Title TBA (Console, Handheld)
• MySims Title TBA (Console, Handheld)

[*]Q3 FY 2011- October 1 through December 31, 2010

• Crysis 2 (Console, PC)
• Need For Speed Title TBA (Console, Handheld, PC)
• DTC Game For Console Online (Console - Downloadable)
• FIFA Manager 11 (PC)
• NBA Jam (Console)
• NBA Live 11 (Console, Handheld)
• EA SPORTS Active Title TBA (Console)
• EA SPORTS Active Title TBA (Console)
• EA SPORTS MMA (Console, Handheld)
• Hasbro Family Game Night Title TBA (Console)
• Hasbro Littlest Pet Shop Title TBA (Handheld)
• Harry Potter Title TBA (Console, Handheld, PC)
• The Sims 3 on Console Title TBA (Console, Handheld)
• EA Play Label TBA (Console, Handheld, PC)

[*]Q4 FY 2011- January 1 through March 31, 2011

• Dead Space 2 (Console, Handheld)
• Dragon Age Title TBA(Console, Handheld, PC)
• Shooter from Epic TBA (Console, PC)
• Need For Speed Title TBA (Console, PC)
• EA Games Action Title TBA (Console - Downloadable)
• EA SPORTS Fighting Title TBA (Console)
• EA Play Hasbro Title TBA (Console - Downloadable)
• New Sims Title TBA (PC)
• Spore Title TBA (Consoles, PC)

Source - Shacknews

[menage]

Lot's of sequels. Epic could be intersting, hope they deviate from the space marines or marines in general somewhat.

Hope the fuckers also don't fuck up DS2.

[jpublic]

Isn't Dead Space 2 supposed to also come out on PC?

[Expugnare]

Dragon Age Title TBA(Console, Handheld, PC)

The fuck?

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[Urizen]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

a pair of EA Sports Active titles for the WiiFit

Shirley, you mean the Wii...

[Jason]

More Dragon Age is a good thing. But, I hope EA doesn't start making Bioware rush out a sequel a year. That would be bad.

[DoctorFinger]

Originally Posted by Urizen

Shirley, you mean the Wii...

I think the original EA Sports Active was WiiFit only, so I'm assuming the sequels will be too.

[johnperkins21]

Originally Posted by menage

Hope the fuckers also don't fuck up DS2.

It sounds like they're going to try. From Joystiq:

With Dante's Inferno out of his hands, Earl confirmed that the majority of Visceral's staff is shifting to Dead Space 2 (while a small team continues to work on Dante's DLC). "We're more focused on the action than the horror this time," Earl said of the apparent ACTION-horror sequel. "We're more empowering to the player."

[ElektroDragon]

I hope they re-design the entire Codex system in Dragon Age. The unread highlighting system is crap on the 360. It should mark as read when I OPEN it, not when I invariably have to select it as I scroll down.

[Gerbs]

Sounds like they're going to murder Dead Space 2. Is APB still a PS3 exclusive?

[Mike Kelehan]

Originally Posted by Gerbs

Sounds like they're going to murder Dead Space 2. Is APB still a PS3 exclusive?

You may be confusing it with the now-dead Calling All Cars. APB is only announced for PC and, later, 360. They haven't announced a PS3 version at all.

[Farsight]

Fast turnaround on Dragon Age. They must be pretty happy with that engine. Between the expansion and this, DA is going to feel almost like a TV show, a seasonal bit of ye olde fantasy demon raping and wench molesting!

Or at least that's how I remember it...

[Gerbs]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelehan

You may be confusing it with the now-dead Calling All Cars. APB is only announced for PC and, later, 360. They haven't announced a PS3 version at all.

I'm thinking of APB, the pseudo MMO online shooter. That's the right game, yes? Could have sworn it wasn't coming to 360.

[DoctorFinger]

As of now APB is PC only, but Realtime Worlds wants to move it to consoles after launch.

[Blue]

Dead Space is one of my favorite games from this gen. I seriously hope the sequel doesn't suck.

[Nameless]

Originally Posted by ElektroDragon

I hope they re-design the entire Codex system in Dragon Age. The unread highlighting system is crap on the 360. It should mark as read when I OPEN it, not when I invariably have to select it as I scroll down.

Man, I am so glad I'm not the only person who hated this. This was incredibly annoying. Thank you for validating my concerns!

[Mike Kelehan]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

As of now APB is PC only, but Realtime Worlds wants to move it to consoles after launch.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/19833/...-and-Xbox-360/

Says here that while the announcement was specifically for the PC, they're making a 360 version.

[H.Bogard]

Looks like the departure of Glenn Schofield and that other guy has turned some screws loose up there at Visceral Games.

First there was the retarded marketing campaign for Dante's Inferno, and now NO DEAD SPACE 2 POUR PC?
Ham doctors!

[Narradisall]

Hmmm, I'm hoping the chaos of a necromoprph outbreak at it's hieght will allow for the "action" but also provide the "fear" that comes with the utter confusion of a large scale disaster unfolding.

Worrying that DA turnaround is quicker than DS. I was not overly impressed with the use of the engine in DA, it was good, but I think ME looked nicer (and was a year earlier).