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EA’s confirmed that BioWare’s Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic, won’t make the publisher’s next financial year.
Speaking in EA’s Q3 earnings call last night, CFO Eric Brown said the game won’t ship in the 12 months ending March 31, 2011.
“We are not assuming that we bring a major new MMO to market in fiscal ‘11. We will continue to increase significant development cost as we prepare this title for launch,” he said.
Both EA and Lucas has previously said the game is aiming for a “spring 2011″ release, putting the launch in either April or May 2011.
As CEO John Riccitiello added, the costs involved here are gigantic, so don’t be hugely shocked if this trundles off into the back half of next year.
“It’s a significant cost,” said the exec. “MMOs can cost as much as two to six, seven times as much as a front-line title, if they’re done right.
“It is a major investment for us.”
Brown eased through analyst questions in the call last night by assuring the mega-costs involved in developing the game will be repaid in full.
“I think the important point here is you ask that title goes live, and we’re not giving any specific date, we’ll move from a net OpEx investment mode to a highly profitable op-income contributor,” he said.
“So it’s a pretty important step change, when you compare a year with the MMO active versus the development stage that we’re currently in this fiscal year.”
Get the rest of the news from EA’s Q3 release here.
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Ubisoft’s announced Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
It’s being made at the company’s French studios in Paris.
It’ll be released during the Holiday season, with a public multiplayer beta due in summer for anybody who buys Splinter Cell: Conviction for Xbox 360.
This is the big announcement the publisher has been teasing since last week.
No other details have been released so far. We’re still waiting for Xbox Live to update with the formal announcement.
Ubi trademarked the title “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” back in December
Press release is below.
*UBISOFT^® EXPANDS TOM CLANCY PORTFOLIO WITH TOM CLANCY™’S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER™*
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/Exclusive Multiplayer Beta Available This Summer/
*LONDON – February 9, 2010 –* Today Ubisoft announced that /Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™/ is in development at Ubisoft’s Paris studio and is scheduled to be released worldwide Holiday 2010.
Created by the award-winning team behind /Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter^® / and /Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter^® 2/, the game will feature cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes. /Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier/ will go beyond the core Ghost Recon franchise and deliver a fresh gameplay experience, with an unparalleled level of quality that will excite long-time fans and newcomers alike.
Ubisoft is offering gamers a chance to be the first to play /Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’s/ Multiplayer Beta this summer 2010. This exclusive beta invitation will be available for a limited time to customers who purchase /Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction/™ for the Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, which releases on 16 April 2010.
For ongoing updates about Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, please visit: www.GhostRecon.com <http://www.GhostRecon.com>
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Ubisoft’s confirmed it’s “big” announcement teased on Friday will be taking place on Xbox Live today at 10am GMT.
That’s a little over 45 minutes from now.
Ubisoft community head Kimi Matsuzaki confirmed the news in the early hours of this morning.
“Check Xbox Live around 2 am PST/5 am EST/11 am CET for that announcement I mentioned…“
On Friday, the company teased the announce as “a thrilling new project”.
You can expect to hear more on whatever it is when Ubisoft issues Q3 financials today.
Thanks, tLG
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Don’t have the internet? Captain EA says you’re a fool, sucker. Every game the publisher brings to market in its next financial year will have connected functionality, the firm said last night.
“In fiscal 2011, every one of EA’s releases will have an online component, both downloadable content and online play,” said COO John Schappert, speaking in the company’s Q3 investor call.
CFO Eric Brown added: “This fiscal ‘11 we will continue to introduce new service and product features that benefit unique registered purchasers on PC and console games.
“Our most recent example is the Cerberus content network,” he said, referencing the Mass Effect 2 download system.
EA went all out in its earnings release last night, putting dates on many of its biggest titles for the next fiscal year. You can see everything right here.
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Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has predicted PS3 hardware sales will be up by a massive figure year-on-year in this Thursday’s January NPD results.
Speaking in his NPD preview, the analyst said sales of the console will be up 62 percent from January 2009, with estimates at 330k sold during the month, but will narrowly miss out on beating Xbox 360.
The Microsoft machine’s predicted to have sold 340,000, up 10 percent year-on-year.
Wii is still expected to be the main home console winner with sales of 555K, despite a 19 percent loss at the same period last year.
Pachter also predicted the big software winners will be Mass Effect 2, Darksiders, Modern Warfare 2, New Super Mario. Bros, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort.
The official figures are released on Thursday.
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Capcom’s confirmed it’s bringing Dead Rising 2 to X10 in San Francisco this Thursday.
The Blue Castle Games-developed zombie title will one of Capcom’s big headliners at the Microsoft event this week, alongside Lost Planet 2.
Here’s the tweet from the firm:
“We’ll have new hotness (or decomposing hotness) on display for Dead Rising 2 and Lost Planet 2 at X10 on Thursday.“
Capcom confirmed a couple of weeks back Lost Planet 2 will get a worldwide release on May 18, while Dead Rising 2 will get a release this year.
Good stuff. Stay tuned for Thursday when the sky starts to fall from the Terra Event Center.
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Square Enix has registered Deus Ex: Human Revolution as a trademark, according to a filing found by Joystiq.
The trademark was made in Europe, although what its actual meaning is currently unknown. Related to Deus Ex 3? Maybe.
The last we heard of that was back in November, when developer Eidos Montreal confirmed Square Enix was doing the cinematics for the action RPG.
If it’s a separate entry in the series, it could be the title Square president Yoichi Wada confirmed at the Montreal Games Summit last year, when he announced a collaboration with the firm and the Montreal studio, its first since buying Eidos last April.
Deus Ex 3 currently has no date yet at present. It’s due for a release on PC, 360 and PS3.
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EA dropped some big bombs in its third quarter release last night, including dates on a Dragon Age sequel, two Need for Speed games, Crysis 2 and tons more. We were there. We lived the dream. We listened to droning men so you don’t have to. Get everything after the link.
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EA’s confirmed its bringing EA Sports Active off Wii and onto other hardware this Christmas.
Speaking in the company’s Q3 FY10 financial call, the firm’s COO John Schappert confirmed the news while answering an investor’s question.
“We’re taking EA Sports Active, which was wildly successful in the Wii, and bringing that to multiple platforms,” he said.
While it has mentioned the plans before, this is the first time the firm has confirmed its bringing the work-out series to other platforms then Wii.
We assume those “muliple platforms” are PS3 and 360. Two titles are planned in the series for EA’s Q3 FY2011.
Get all the rest of the news from EA’s Q3 release here.
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