2K Sports makers of most of the American regional games like MLB (Major League Baseball) and NHL (National Hockey League). 2K Sports are the only contenders to EA Sports giants of Sports Games. National Hockey League or better known as Ice Hockey is a popular sport in natural cold countries like Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and northern part of United States. NHL 2K series was started by 2K Sports in the year 2000 and till date have nine games released in the series. Tenth game NHL 2K 10 is under development of Visual Concepts and like the previous games of the NHL series it will be published by 2K Sports.  NHL 2K 10 will be released for the platforms of PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.  Specialty of the game will be different feature for each version on  different platforms. Genre for the game will be Sports and Hockey. NHL 2K 10 is scheduled to release on September 15, 2009 on all the four consoles. Cover athlete for the game will be All-Star left winger Alexander Ovechkin of Washington Capitals.

Improved Features

Better Graphics: The player looks and styles will be more accurate, realistic pre-game introductions and brighter arenas.

Smarter Hockey: Game will be more authentic in defensive and offensive zones because of improved A.I. multiplayer will be more exciting because of the NHL-caliber playmaking feature.

Online Multiplay: Online teams can be created and you can play in leagues. By joining tournaments you can test yourself against best NHL 2K 10 players in the world

Better Control: with improved controls it will deliver better handling and new defensive moves like stumble shots, and stick lifts you can always get puck on the net.

All these feature will be common for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 for Wii controls will be different as it will use Wireless input Wii Remote. Get ready for this action packed game with lots of adrenaline.

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FIFA series is the best game series based on the most popular game on our planet Earth. FIFA series is totally developed and published by the largest publishers and the gaming giants of the world Electronic Arts, under the label of EA Sports. FIFA 10 will be the latest installment in the FIFA series. FIFA 10 is under the development of EA Canada. The game will be available for almost every gaming platform in the world. Starting from giants it will release for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, and PlayStation 2. For the first time any FIFA game will be release on Nintendo Wii. Other versions of the game will also be release on Sony PSP, Nokia N-gage, Nintendo DS, Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and other Mobile phones. EA has announced that FIFA 10 will be the last game of the series to be released on PlayStation 2. It was believed that the demo of the game will release on 21 July, as it was announced on the official website with the countdown timer. However, it was later explained by the moderator of the EA forum that this is just a count-down to the game showing at some German gaming convention. Another game to follow FIFA 10 next year will be 2010 FIFA World Cup video game. It will feature all of the national teams associated with FIFA. Confirmed release date for the game is October 2, 2009. The UK cover for the game will feature Wayne Rooney, famous football player of England and Manchester United.

Many changes are made in the game, but the one mode to be changed the most is the Manger mode. According to EA Sports, it previously got several issues. Improvements count ore than 50, some the improvements are: The Transfer system will be more real. Money will no longer be a dominating factor in acquiring a player. Other factors will play important role like performance in European league outside your domestic league and amount of other players at the same position. Signing a player will be more real as the manger will have to deal with competition from other clubs to sign the same player. The matter of budget is also shifted from the sponsors to the hands of board of directors. There will be two budgets provided by the directors: Wage Budget and Club Budget. Later will deal with the amount of money provided to the players. Club Budget will help players to buy and sell players. Board Difficulty setting will help players to choose how generous the board is financially towards you.

Pre-season friendlies are introduced in the series. They will be arranged by the assistant manger. Pre-season friendlies are a good way to find out any flaws in the team or in the selection of the team. Fatigue of the players will be more realistic compared to previous games of the series. The problem of lower level teams suffering from very low levels of energy is removed from the game. A completely new and unique feature known as Total Football Experience is also included in the game. In this feature, football news around the Manger Mode world will be visible and it will include player’s transfers, results and game fixtures in foreign languages. Assistant Manager will be implemented as the new feature to help the manager. Once you activate the assistant manger mode, he will take care of everything including line up and rotation of the players according to the matches. Soundtrack for the game was announced by EA Sports on July 25, 2009. There will be 43 songs in the featuring in the track, eight less than the previous game FIFA 09. So Football is just got real enjoy not only playing but also managing the team.

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Electronic Arts is considered as one of the most innovative game developers. Their new game confirms this statement. EA Sports MMA or EA Sports Mixed Martial Arts is the new game from the genre of Mixed Martial Arts. This one of the rarest genre in gaming world. EA Sports MMA is under the development of EA Tiburon and will be published by Electronic Arts. Although the release dates are not confirmed, but the game may release in 2010 for the platforms of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game will exciting to play as games from this genre very rarely. First details for the game were released on June 1 2009. Electronic Arts announced that this new fighting game would be developed by EA Sports brand. Peter Moore president of EA Sports referred in a press conference as saying “Fans have been begging EA Sports to get into the cage, and EA Sports MMA will put them in control of the sport’s unique combat experience. He further explained the game is an interactive capture of the raw intensity of the mixed martial arts, is why it is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. As of 14 June, 2009 no updates were revealed on the official site of EA Sports MMA. There is only one link, which directs you to EA Sports MMA forum and other for the sign up of EA Sports newsletter.

Some of the most famous mixed martial arts fighters are linked with the game. Some of the fighters to be featuring in the game are Bobby Lashley, Gegard Mousasi, Tim Sylvia, Randy Couture and Benji Radach. Leaving the above fighters some other fighters are also rumored to be with the project like, Muhammed Lawal, Renato Sobral, Jake Shields and Jason Miller. Mauro Ranallo is enrolled for the commentary. There is a war going on between EA Sports and UFC, a US based mixed martial arts organization, which controls over 90% of the mixed martial arts industry. Dana White president of UFC declared that the war is over the development of the game and any UFC fighter who sign with EA will be blacklisted from UFC. Only exception is Randy Couture because of the pre-existing contractual arrangements between Couture and UFC. White blamed EA of acting in bad faith as previously EA refused to accept UFC branded MMA as a real sport and later they got motivated by the commercial success of UFC 2009 Undisputed, published by THQ. EA is quite on all these comments by UFC. However, leave all the wars behind and get ready to fight, coz EA Sports MMA will give something not given by any fighting game.

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Tiger Woods is one of the best known in the Sports world as well as in the gaming world. The game series Tiger Woods PGA Tour is a well-known game series. There are twelve games in the series. Twelfth game of the series Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 is the latest game in the series. Just like the previous games it will be a golfing simulation video game developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon (EA Tiburon). Publishers for the game are EA or Electronic Arts The game was released on June 8^th this year on the platforms of Xbox 360, iPhone OS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 3. However, nothing is known about the release dates of the game on iPhone. There will be three different modes in the game single, online multiplayer and multiplayer.

For the first time in the franchise’s history the U.S. Open, the USGA Championship and the USGA’s Rules are used in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010. One more thing changes in the game is the distance has been reduced by 40 yards from 09 and maximum possible distance of 325 yards. Now player can set “Powercapping” online and Weather Control, which will allow dynamic data for the game. An all-new “Tournament Challenge” mode will allow players to copy famous shots and the moments from the PGA history. Now if players want to enjoy the best shots of the PGA, they will use Tournament Challenge.

Online option of the game will change the way Daily Tournament are played. After playing every round players will be asked to post their score and if they don’t want to they just can play from the first hole. “Play the Pros” is yet another new feature in the game. Online players will have an option of posting their scores against the real life PGA Leaderboards. Additionally to make it more real players can play in Tour Pro mode. To support the game EA will deliver 4 rounds weekly tournaments. Users can choose either to play all rounds in the same day or play only one round. However, if they choose to play only one round they will have a single chance to go at it. There will be 60-second shot clock available for the unranked and ranked players. Many new courses are included in the game like Pinehurst, Torrey Pines, Hazeltine National Turnberry and finally Banff Springs. All the new courses will have new tournaments. Wii version of the game is the best of all the platform he is planning. It will also support Wii Notional, it will be including ability to draw and fade and or it will allow for more authentication sports motion to the golf.

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Wii covered up nearly everything on the soft games i.e. games with less or no violence. Now Nintendo want to promote Wii for the hardcore gamers, one who shares a major part of the gaming world. Games from every genre either are under development or are ready to be release. One such game Dead Space: Extraction a prequel to the 2008 game Dead Space. It will be developed jointly by Visceral Games and Eurocom. Visceral Games also developed Dead Space. Electronic Arts will publish the game. It will release under the genre of Survival horror and Shoot ‘em up. The game will feature two game modes, Single player and 2 player cooperative multiplayer. September 29, 2009 and October 3 are the two releasing dates for North America and Europe respectively. Dead Space was a huge hit and scored well one every chart, same is expected from Dead Space Dead Space: Extraction. It will be exciting to play a survival horror game on the console of soft games.

Events of Dead Space: Extraction will be the oldest in the Dead Space franchise. They will be older then Dead Space and the animated film Dead Space: Downfall, which was released just after Dead Space. Main motive behind developing the film was to explain the events that took place before the game. Dead Space: Extraction will be interesting as you can discover what caused the chaos in Dead Space: Extraction. The game is based in Aegis VII colony and revolves around a group of space of colonists. It shows their fight against the infection of Necromorphs. It will also try to explain the cause of the infection and how it was created when the Red Marker was removed. To make the game more appealing then the previous versions a new female protagonist is introduced to the series.

According to the developers there, game will introduce new character, enemies, weapons and environments to the series. Visceral Games are promising that the game will bring new experience to typical rail shooters. They commented on the game as “a guided first person experience”. Two main difference in the game play is inclusion of branching pathways and puzzles. These two will help the game to look more like an adventure game than an arcade style shooter. Dead Space: Extraction will give the players some control over camera. To point at enemy players has to use pointer function of the Wii Remote. In order to perform melee attack you will have to swing the Wii remote and twisting the Wii remote will result in activating the secondary firing mode. Although new features are included Dead Space: Extraction will still have features from the original game that will play an important role in the gameplay. Some of these features are dismemberment, stasis and zero gravity. Kinesis, which was also there in the previous game, also appear from the start of the game. One new feature included in the gameplay is drop in/drop out co-op play. Dead Space: Extraction was under development for a year before it was reveled on 18 February 2009. Lets see how Wii manages to present the game without violence. It is important as the survival horror games like are genrally features a lot of violence.

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Rage is an upcoming game, this game is unique in many things. First, one is the genre of the game. Genre for the game will be a blend of First person shooter with racing game. second thing is the team of two gaming giants associated with the game. Rage is being developed by id Software, one of the best technologies in the world of gaming is from id Software. World’s largest third party publisher, Electronic Arts is the name behind the publishing of the game. Other than publishing it Electronic Arts will also do the job of distributing the game. Rage will use The id Tech’s new and latest game engine id Tech 5. Tim Willits will be the designer for the game, he is famous for games like Quake I and Quake II. Rage was announced long back on August 2, 2007 at QuakeCon. Same day a trailer was also released for the game on gametrailers. Com. Rage will release somewhere in 2010 on the platforms of Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Mac OS X.

From all the information available, base of the game seems a post-apocalyptic world. It looks like movies like Mad Max 2, specially the screenshots indicates this. Designers Tim Willits revealed in an interview that the game is set in the near future following a comet collision with the earth. Gameplay of Rage is influenced with games like Burnout and MotorStorm. This was explained by Tim in an interview with Shacknews. Players will be able to upgrade their vehicles from the money they won in races. Single player and multiplayer will be the two modes game will be released.

There are reports that the game is developed for T-for-Teen rating by id. Another report for the Game is that PC, Xbox 360 and Mac version will be shipped on two discs and the PS3 version will be on one Blue-ray Disc. Size of the game is said to be the biggest ever in the gaming world. John Carmack revealed that the size of the game would be around one terabyte in size. id announced its decision on July 14, 2008 to collaborate Electronic Arts for publication of Rage. On the question of Rage on Linux port John Carmack said “ It isn’t a launch platform for us, but an executable may still show up.” Release date is always under suspense. CEO of the company Todd Hollenshead told Gametrailers TV “No, it won’t be out this year,’ when asked about a possible release date. So the game is there all you need to do is wait for the release and get ready with some huge systems for this large or say largest game ever made in human history.

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Need for Speed: Nitro is the new game for Need for Speed or better known as NFS series. Electronic Arts announced Need for Speed: Nitro with two other games Need for Speed: Shift and Need for Speed: World Online in January 2009. Need for Speed: Nitro will release only for the consoles of Nintendo Wii and DS. EA Montreal is developing Nitro. The game will be published by Electronic Arts. EA Montreal is developing the game because of their previous experience with Nintendo titles. However, it was reported that the Nintendo DS version is developed separately by Firebrand Game’s Florida studio. Need for Speed: Nitro will release in 2009, however a confirmed date is still awaited from the developers.

As we, all know that Wii is about soft gaming not traditional hardcore gaming so Need for Speed: Nitro will be a soft game. EA is changing their franchise model for this latest game. However, the game’s basics will not be affected by the change in the model, Need for Speed: Nitro will feature customizable licensed vehicles just like the previous titles. Cop-mode is also included in the game. Gameplay of the game can be distinguished by unrealistic and fast arcade racing with vibrant visuals just like one more upcoming game Blur. Marketing manager for EA Keith Munro states that Need for Speed: Nitro will be completely different from any of the previous game of the franchise and anything else seen so far. There will be icons in the race that have different effects. Some of the icons will include increasing opponent’s heat level or car repair. Reason for the change in the mode can be explained as an attempt to target wider range of audience, that’s why EA is going casual instead of usual hardcore.

Gameplay of the Need for Speed: Nitro will be arcade style. It will also feature cops, that will obstruct the player’s progression in race. Maximum players that a race can hold is 12 different modes like circuits, knockouts and sprints. If you are leading the race then most of the buildings will be painted in your color theme of your choice. So far there is no major gameplay effects. Cars featuring in the game will be Nissan Skyline, Audi R8, Lamborghini Reventon and 1969 Dodge Charger R/T. A promotional trailer displayed the buildings in different vibrant colors and other uneven police vehicles. One thing that was weird and interesting about the trailer was that the police vehicles were bearing the word Policia, Spanish word for police.

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Who can forget Mass Effect, this action-role playing game proved a critical as well as commercially. A sequel to Mass Effect named as Mass Effect 2 is under development of BioWare Games and they are assisted by EA Montreal. Mass Effect 2 will be published by Electronic Arts. Microsoft Game Studio is not associating Electronic Arts. The game will be released somewhere between January and March 2010 on Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. The game will make use of Unreal Engine 3. Genre for the game will be Action Role Playing Game, and it will release only in single player mode. The game is written by Drew Karpyshyn, famous for Baldur’s Gate series and the previous title Mass Effect. According to the developers characters are more detailed then the previous title. They are detailed graphically as well as technically. For Example in the previous game Mass Effect there were 20 animation Shepard, whereas in Mass Effect 2 its 200. The game is more open ended. Uncharted worlds which can only be used for “Cheap thrills” will now be more detailed. Camera positioning is changed, previously it was seen while talking with some AI camera is fixed in a static mode, this time it will be moving. Camera view will provide the game a cinematic touch.

The game will be darker then the previous one. BioWare announced that “Saren’s evil army of Geth soldiers has just been defeated, and humans, who are still struggling to make their mark on the galactic stage, are now faced with an even greater peril.” The plot of the game is further elaborated by Online retailer listings. According to them second chapter of the trilogy will take you to the darkest reaches of the space, and you will have to uncover the mystery behind disappearance of humans. Some aspects of the game were put on display by BioWare Executive Producer Casey Hudson. On Shepard’s death he explained that he may die in multiple endings of the game. Endings of the game will not be surprising and they will not be random. The game can end with Shepard’s death and whole of the team survives, everyone is killed along with Shepard.

Team that worked on Mass Effect will continue working on Mass Effect 2. CEO of EA John Riccitello confirmed that Mass Effect will release on multiple platforms and will be released in the fourth quarter of 2009, i.e. between January and March 2010. BioWare and Electronic Arts announced on March 2, 2009 that they have set up a new team set to work in Montreal using existing EA Montreal facility. Main task of the team is to develop Mass Effect. First full time trailer was released on May 29, 2009. Nothing new was shown in the trailer but, the design for Normandy was changed slightly and new serrated blades to the nose of the ship were seen. Most probable reason for placing the blades is to fix the mistake they done in the first game where they forgot to place weapons. One more thing is confirmed was that Shepard, previously thought to be dead is still alive, at least in the starting of the game.

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Need for Speed: World Online is not just the forthcoming title of the greatest and longest running racing video game franchise Need for Speed, but it will be the best game ever released under the genre of MMORG or massively multiplayer online racing game. After the release of Motor City Online back in 2001, this will be first title of Need for Speed of this genre. Need for Speed: World Online will be published and developed by Electronic Arts, with assistance of EA Singapore and EA Black Box. The game will be released on Microsoft Windows as a free to play MMORG. Release dates are not confirmed but it may release in the Summers of 2009 in Japan and for North America in Winters of 2009. The game will be huge and vast. According to the Keith Munro, EA Marketing Manager “this Play for Free action racing game will give Need for Speed fans the most licensed cars, parts and game modes ever in Need for Speed’s history. An official trailer released, confirming Lamborghini, Lexus, Porsche, Pagani Zonda and return of the police. Promo image for NFS World Online is a Nissan 350Z racing in the Chinatown of Palmont (the city of Need for Speed: Carbon) in mid-day.

Need for Speed: World Online producer Scott Henshaw mentioned in an interview that the North American and European versions will be different from the Asian version. Also confirmed by the developers is the fact that the game will feature cities of Rockport and Palmont, which were featured in Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Need for Speed: Carbon respectively. Cop mode will be exciting to play, together with co-op and team based cop play. Whether the game will have cities is not confirmed. One more thing not confirmed by the developers is dynamic day/night cycle. However, the screenshots shows both day and night settings. Need for Speed: World Online will be exciting to play since it will be the largest NFS game ever released. Most exciting will be the co-op cop play mode. So get ready to compete players from all over the world.

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Need for Speed is the most famous racing game series for every gaming platform. First game of the Need for Speed series better known as NFS was released in the year 1994. Since then the series has produced 15 games so far. NFS is known for introducing car customization option in the racing genre. NFS series is published by gaming giants EA (Electronic Arts). All the games of the series are developed by various studios of the EA games like EA Black Box, EA Los Angeles, EA Redwood Visceral Games, and EA Digital Illusions CE. All of the games of the series proved hit so far, but few of the last entries were criticized for lack of innovation. To solve the problem EA is coming back with new installment Need for Speed: Shift. In January 2009, EA announced three more games Need for Speed: Nitro, Need for Speed: Shift and Need for Speed: World Online. Shift is developed by Blimey! Games, previously known as Slightly Mad Studios. They are famous for their titles like GTR 2 and GTR Legends. A new model for the series is adopted by EA, making games more focused towards hardcore gamers. Shift will be more focused on simulation racing and drifting rather than the arcade racing like previous titles. Gameplay is more about simulating the driver experience, not street racing.

Shift is under development for two years, it was confirmed by producer Jesse Abney. He also explained about the new “Driver experience” you will feel in the game. An important role is played by the g-force in the game; it will affect both player and the AI. In car view is returning back, it’s the first time the in car view is back since Porsche Unleashed. The in-car view will be highly detailed and you can see some movements of the driver never seen in any in-car view, like moving head to get a better view of the Mirror and changing gear. Crashes will cause and blur in the screen affecting the player visually. Sound effects are detailed minutely and car crash sound will be a detailed. A sharp grasp of breath from the driver before the accident can also be listened.

Car customization is enhanced more deeply both performance and visual fields. Some of the customizations include tires, brakes, differential, and Gears. Most famous part of the customization Nitrous will be realistic then it was in the previous titles of NFS. You can customize both interior and exterior of the car. Tracks of the game will be a combination of fictitious an real tracks like Brands Hatch. Electronic Arts is not revealing anything on raced modes, Drifting is the only mode confirmed by the developers so far. There will be 80 cars in the game. They will range from classic cars to Modern sports cars. Some of the cars included in the game are Mazda RX-7, McLaren F1 and Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R. Cover of the game will feature 2009 BMW M3GT2, announcements were made on May 29 by Electronic Art. Soundtrack of Shift will be similar to previous game of series Need for Speed: ProStreet. It will feature a scored soundtrack instead of general track list like in the previous titles such as Need for Speed: Carbon and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Shift Will be released on three different dates for three different places. For Europe its September 17, for United Kingdom it is September 18 and for North America it will be September 22. The game will be released on five different consoles, they will be Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PSP (PlayStation Portable), PlayStation 3, iPhone OS and Mobile phones.

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