EA Targets Hollywood, Becomes Buddies with UTV

If you’re tired of EA’s never ending franchises, wait till you hear that they’ll soon be coming to life as movies. That’s right, EA has partnered with UTV (United Talent Agency) to milk the games even further by releasing movies based on them. Yay!

UTA is an ideal partner for us to bring the richness and story telling nuance of our popular games into other forms of media that give consumers more ways to experience these creative concepts,” said Patrick O’Brien, Vice President of EA Entertainment. “Some of our teams have already made steps to expand our games into other forms of media like online, social networks and print publication. This partnership will help us take these efforts to the next level and match each of our titles with the right artists, producers and financiers.

MySims Coming to PC, Screenshots

 

Another annoying Sims game is coming to PCs. This time, it’s a Wii/DS port. Lovely.

Press Release: 

The Sims, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) Label, today announced the first details for MySims, made for the PC, coming to stores in October, 2008. MySims first launched on the Wii™ and Nintendo DS in Autumn, 2007 and has been a worldwide hit embraced by players everywhere. Now the game makes its way to the PC with new online features and new characters.

In MySims you can create original characters, build a town, grow a community and discover a world of your own. Start by personalising the appearance of your MySims from head to toe and go on to unlock cool new items as you befriend and build relationships with your neighbours. Make your creations unique when you design your own homes, shops, restaurants and more in this fun, open-ended game. All that you need is a little creativity and some help from the locals! Read more

Red Orchestra Update Released

Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Red Orchestra

• Steamworks is now used for all backend matchmaking
• RO will now show up in the Steam server browser, making it much easier for people to find RO matches
• Steam friends matchmaking now works allowing people to use Steam friends to join the server their buddies are playing on both in game and out of game
• Outdated servers will no longer show up in the servers list. This will prevent the issue of getting mismatches when attempting to connect to servers that aren’t running the latest version of the game
• The buddies tab has been removed from the in-game server browser as all buddy functionality is now operational using Steam friends
• Added spectator, start, and end cameras to Krivoi Rog
• Fixed an exploit in Smolensk Stalemate where you could get under the terrain
• Enhanced security features