A Harry Potter badge has shown up on foursquare, letting fans of the wizard find his latest film. That’s right, just check in at a cinema when you go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and you’ll see this special Harry Potter badge.
It’s the work of EA Games, promoting its game based on the movie. But it’s not just a pointless promo – check in at the cinema when you see the movie, and you’ll get 25% off the price of the game. Magic.
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Looking to get your game on this holiday weekend, but not looking to break the bank? Electronic Arts has come through in the clutch with an Easter holiday sale — titles start as low as 99 cents. As the second annual sale of its kind, EA is making holidays a gaming tradition, your full list of games and prices awaits.
Medal of Honor is being released into the wild today, and we gave our full verdict on it this week. Medal of Honor has been all over the headlines, with concerns voiced about the level of authenticity EA is striving for by including situations close to reality, namely, that you can play as the Taliban. What we want to know though, is whether the controversy surrounding the game has put you off. Will you be buying and playing Medal of Honor, or are you taking a stand here and buying something else instead?
The Microsoft Xbox 360 is being used to the limits of its powers, according to a senior executive at Electronic Arts in Europe. But while the Xbox 360 is “maxed out”, the Sony PS3 still has “more power” to give, according to Patrick Soderland, Senior VP, EA Games Europe.
The Sims 3′s launch has got off to a controversial start. Electronic Arts, the world’s largest videogames publisher and owner of The Sims series, has commissioned a 1,000 person survey to rewrite The Bible’s Ten Commandments.
The Sims 3, due out on 5 June, has already been leaked onto the Internet. And analysis of its download popularity from peer-to-peer file sharing sites shows that it is suffering worse piracy even than recent EA title Spore.
Mass Effect 2, BioWare’s hotly anticipated follow-up to the November 2007 sci-fi smash, is to use the save game files of the original game, BioWare has confirmed. With the rumours circulating that Mass Effect 2 will no longer be exclusive to the Xbox 360, that at least gives Microsoft a big advantage over gamers on the rival Sony PS3.
