Since the ’09 gaming line launch in June of last year, EA Sports has reported that over 500 million online games have been played up until this week. Over 2.2 million online games are played on average each day which helped the EA Sports titles reach over 500 million, which is a 175% increase over last year. These numbers represent all of EA Sports’ titles from Football to Hockey to Soccer.
Online game play allows real-time competitions with fans from around the world who speak the global language of sports. EA SPORTS is committed to providing personal access to the emotion of sports by continuing to create immersive online features, compelling new downloadable content and daily real-time stats updates.
Gamers have spent more than 4 billion minutes playing EA Sports titles a day, which represents more than 35 years worth of games being played each day. Also, six seperate titles have reached more than 500,000 registered online users with Madden and FIFA leading the way with more than 2.4 million apiece.
Source: Kotaku
LEGO Rock Band is being developed by TT Games in a partnership with Harmonix and published by Warner Bros. Entertainment. The game is built around the theme: “Build a Band and Rock the Universe.” The teen and tween geared game boasts some of these tunes: Blur’s “Song 2”, Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting”, Europe’s “The Final Countdown”, Good Charlotte’s “Boys and Girls” and Pink’s “So What”.
Reports have surfaced that AT&T will be upgrading its 3G wireless network from the current 3.6 Mbps download standard to 7.2 Mbps. Several rumours have been floating around that this is to do with the new iPhone set to release this summer. The new speeds will be great for mobile gaming on the iPhone.
On April 17th through April 19th, 32 teams competed in KODE5 Brazil for the chance to play at the KODE5 Global Finals. Among these 32 teams was Made in Brazil, a fan favored team coming into the event. During which, they showed why they were the favored team by dominating their way into the finals, where they played FireGamers for the plane tickets to Moscow. While it was a good match, MiBR did take home the win and will continue to the Global Finals.
Mousesports have just qualified for the KODE5 Grand Finals by winning KODE5 Denamrk over ProStaker. Both teams reportedly played great matches throughout the tournament, but eventually Mousesports came out on top.
The participants of Cyberfusion’s One Nation Cyberjaya world record attempt for the longest LAN party have succeeded in style. Supervised by officials from Guinness World Records, Malaysia now officially holds the world record for longest LAN party. The event started at midnight on Saturday and ending at 4pm on Sunday with 274 gamers playing non-stop for 40 hours.
The ESWC Asia Masters committee has confirmed that the former MYM team had withdrawn from the tournament. Everyone knows by now that the ex-MYM squad has had a troubled few weeks with the loss of their big supporter, ESNation and are still awaiting offers on a new organization.
With the recent report of ecstacy pills being found in a previously owned copy of GTA IV in the UK. Now a brand new PSP which was given to a six year old boy has been found containing pornographic images in America.