In the never ending story of Sims 2, which has seen various addons, spin-offs, and content packs, there is a new chapter: IKEA, the Swedish retail chain for low to mid budget home furniture (which you have to assemble by yourself -- the no-questions-answered manuals are feared by customers throughout the world), will move into your Sims-House. more...

Bioware and EA have done a strategic withdrawal from the harsh privacy preventing measures they announced a few days ago, with which the authenticity of the game would have been checked every ten days over the internet, meaning that if you don't have access to the internet regularly and you wanted to play it without internet access af more...

The first new title from the recently acquired Pandemic Studios developed for EA is called Lord of the Rings: Conquest. The project is done "in collaboration with New Line Cinema" -- the studio behind the three Lords of the Rings movies (not counting the animated movie from the 80ies, which strangely ended with the Alliance's victory at Helm's Deep). more...

Many gamers out there were not really pleased last year by the fact that they were only allowed to activate their copy of "Bioshock" on the PC three times before having to contact the support to reactivate it, all thanks to the implemented SecuROM online activation system which was designed to prevent privacy. more...

The development team at EA Mythic provided a brief update this evening on the status of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. While the game certainly continues to look exciting, it has been delayed several times, with some of those launch dates long gone by. more...

Electronic Arts is finally terminating The Sims Online, more recently known as EA-Land.

According to posts on the game's official blog, "On August 1, 2008, the game EA-Land/TSO will no longer be in service and EA will focus these resources on future games." more...

Electronic Arts' German Phenomic studio is currently developing BattleForge.

BattleForge should be released for the PC late this year and is a real-time strategy game in which player construct their own armies using a collectible trading card system. more...

Electronic Arts announced that when Madden NFL '09 reaches stores on August 12, the cover athlete will be former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre.

The game will ship for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox, PlayStation 2, DS and PSP. As previously announced, there will not be a PC version of this latest Madden football game. more...

Will Wright's new game "Spore" is definitely one of the most highly anticipated, innovative and promising games of this year. And it is set to ship in September. But you won't have to wait that long if you're desperate to use one of the main features of the game, which is: creating mind-bending creatures. more...

Today, Electronic Arts is releasing additional premium downloadable content for its game Army of Two.

Both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners can purchase the new Security and Strategy Corporation Challenge mode along with two new maps. In North America, the content costs $7.50, while in Europe it can be purchased for €4.75 or £3.80. more...