The organizers of Classic Gaming Expo announced today that the 2012 Classic Gaming Expo will be held August 11 and 12 at the recently renovated Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show’s historic ties with Las Vegas, and specifically the Plaza Hotel, made it the obvious choice to play host to this year’s convention.
Tim Tebow did it all on the college football field for the University of Florida. Now in control of the Denver Broncos offense, the two-time Heisman Trophy winner has fans excited about football again. Tebow, who was the cover athlete for NCAA Football 11, talks about Madden and his gaming habits off the NFL field in this exclusive video interview below.
Penny Arcade Expo 2011 (PAX for short) is rapidly approaching, and Sega is set to take center stage with its massive game line-up, including a playable version of Gearbox's upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines. Before we get crazy and waste every alien in sight, we thought we'd share how intense the experience gets with the game's debut trailer, featuring some crazy game footage. Game over, man!
When it comes to upgrading to a 3D home entertainment center for your gaming room, the new Vizio 65-inch Theater 3D Razor LED LCD HDTV is the way to go. In fact, a leading Sony game developer who’s tested all the 3D TVs on the market with their bestselling 3D game franchise said this Vizio is the one to buy. The 3D TV employs passive 3D technology, which means you can use the same glasses you wear at the movie theater. The co-founder of the company talks about this new 3D TV in this exclusive video interview from CE Week in New York below.
The National League gets home field advantage in the World Series this year thanks to the pitching of Atlanta Braves MLB All-Star Jair Jurrjens. Along with Braves’ teammates Craig Kimbrel and Jonny Venters, the trio combined to throw 2 2/3 shutout innings at Chase Field. Jurrjens was at the MLB All-Star Fan Fest to checkout Sony’s new PlayStation 3 game, MLB 11: The Show. He talks about 3D baseball video games and what he likes to play when he’s not on the mound in this exclusive video interview below.
New York – Former Mizzou standout Blaine Gabbert was one of four quarterbacks to get drafted in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Before he took the stage at Radio City Music Hall to become the newest member of the Jacksonville, Jaguars; Gabbert checked out NCAA Football 12 at the EA Sports party. He talks about his background in video games and explains why quarterbacks have an advantage in football video games in this exclusive video interview.
History was made, on and off the ice, in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. One of the most exciting and compelling Conference Quarterfinal rounds in Stanley Cup Playoff history, highlighted by nine straight days of overtime games, four Game 7s (the most in the first round in 16 years), and 49 total games (tied for the most ever), led to ratings increases and milestones at both the national and local levels, along with record Internet traffic on NHL.com. The first round also scored in-arena with every arena at 100 percent capacity, achieving an all-time record for average attendance for the first round. All of this is good news for game publishers EA Sports and 2K Sports, who cater to this hockey fan base every year with multiple hockey video games.
NEW YORK – NCAA Football 12 cover athlete Mark Ingram was the guest of honor at the EA Sports NFL Draft party for the top rookies. The New York shindig was attended by ESPN's Erin Andrews and some of the top college football players, including Nick Fairley, Jake Locker, Von Miller, Patrick Peterson, and Muhammad Wilkerson. Electronic Arts vice president Tom Goedde talks about this year’s event and how the NFL lockout actually helped EA Sports in the college football arena in this exclusive video interview.
The FIFA Interactive World Cup is set to climax with the most exciting Grand Final in the event’s seven-year history. FIFA and the event’s partners Sony PlayStation and EA Sports will be fly the 24 finalists of the world’s largest virtual soccer (or football, for everyone outside of the U.S.) tournament to Los Angeles, where the winner will be crowned amidst a three-day entertainment extravaganza. The Grand Final will be held from June 7-9 2011, to coincide with the world’s largest gaming conference E3, which will be held in Los Angeles on the same dates.
In a season that saw outstanding on-ice performances capped by a spectacular playoff chase that went down to the last minute of the last game of the regular season, the NHL experienced unprecedented success off the ice, achieving myriad business records and milestones. That’s good news for game publishers like 2K Sports and EA Sports, which make NHL video games for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Alexander Ovechkin, who has been on the cover of both EA Sports’ and 2K Sports’ video games over the years, talks about the NHL All-Star Game in Raleigh in the video below.
With Spring Training in full swing and the start of the 2011 Major League Baseball season upon us, Sony has returned to its Minnesota Twins All-Star Joe Mauer to serve as cover athlete for its MLB 11 The Show. The baseball game continues to be the highest ranked officially licensed baseball title of this console generation (according to Metacritic.com), delivering true-to-life gameplay, authentic franchise and season modes, and incredible detail not found in any other sports game. Mauer talks about gaming and what 3D adds to the support in this exclusive interview.
Just in time for spring training and opening day, Sony Computer Entertainment America is taking gamers out to the ballpark with the release of the #1 selling and rated baseball video game this generation, MLB 11 The Show. Gracing the cover of this year's installment of the market leading Major League Baseball franchise is a familiar face -- 3-time Gold Glove winner, 2-time Silver Slugger, 3-time American League (AL) batting champion, 2009 American League Most Valuable Player (MVP), and MLB 10 The Show cover athlete, Joe Mauer, All-Star catcher for the Minnesota Twins. Sony walks us through the new 3D PlayStation 3 game in this exclusive video from GDC 2011.
LOS ANGELES, California – With the world watching Hollywood and the NBA converge for the 60th NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles, the biggest names in basketball took to the practice court at NBA Jam Session. Before Blake Griffin’s stunning slam dunk contest win, Oklahoma Thunder Kevin Durant was on hand to talk about his love of video games. He begs EA Sports to release NBA Elite 11, the game he’s on the cover of, in this exclusive video interview.
A new report from Research and Markets finds that television manufacturers are viewing 3D developments as the next big thing for the 3D TV industry, and expect it to boost sales and interest as much as color TVs did to black and white entertainment decades ago. The 3D TV market size is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by the end of 2014 as more big games from companies like Sony Computer Entertainment, including MLB 11: The Show, Killzone 3 and Motorstorm Apocalypse hit the gaming space. Hollywood is also increasing the number of Blu-ray 3Ds based on big movies like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 3D, Sony Pictures’ Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D and Weinstein’s Piranha 3D. And CES 2011 once again focused on 3D TVs like the 92-inch Mitsubishi in the video below.
The 17th annual Madden Bowl tournament will be streamed live for the first time through ESPN3.com from the Glass Cactus in Grapevine, Texas on February 3. As part of the week of Super Bowl XLV festivities, the video game tournament will be available online and on Xbox 360 from 8:30pm to 10pm. Check out highlights from last year's Madden Bowl in the video below.
With his come-from-behind 24-23 win over the Houston Texans, many believe the Tim Tebow era has begun for the Denver Broncos. During a tumultuous season that has seen the firing of the head coach and multiple quarterbacks leading the team, Tebow has emerged as the new leader of the team. The former University of Florida star is also the cover athlete for EA Sports NCAA Football 11 video game. The quarterback talks about Madden and NCAA Football video games and the NFL in this exclusive video interview.
With the NFL season about to kick-off with the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings, Electronic Arts’s Madden NFL 11 is delivering has been keeping football fans happy all month long in August. According to EA Sports, Madden has had a strong performance in August in both retail sales and direct-to-consumer digital revenue. Based on internal estimates, Madden NFL 11 was the #1 selling game in North America in August – sales are projected to be up approximately 5% year-over-year across all platforms for the month.
EA SPORTS is developing EA SPORTS Active NFL Training Camp for the Wii. The football-based training program puts users right into the football drills and conditioning workouts of an NFL training camp. San Francisco 49er Patrick Willis talks about the new game, as well as the upcoming Madden NFL 11, in this exclusive interview.
After months of non-stop infidelity tabloid stories, Tiger Woods is set to return to golf today in Augusta, Georgia at The Masters. EA Sports used this week’s Masters as a backdrop to launch its first online golf game, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Online. On MSNBC, EA Sports President Peter Moore defended the game publisher’s choice to stand by Woods, while companies like Accenture and Gatorade cut ties with him amidst the adultery and sex scandals.
