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EA piles on E3 lineup

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Jul 10, 2008 2:13 pm PT

Publisher slots in more than 30 titles from its holiday 2008 slate for next week's expo; highlights include Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Spore, Warhammer Online, Rock Band 2, Left 4 Dead.

Today, Activision and Vivendi Games dotted the last i in a long-in-the-making business combination that will effectively create a new leader in the third-party game software publishing business. However, with Activision Blizzard set to skip out on this year's E3 Media & Business Summit, Electronic Arts will still be the big kahuna at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Living up that title, the publisher said that that it will have a whopping 30-plus games on show from its holiday 2008 lineup. Perennial sports favorites, such as Madden NFL, NCAA Football, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and NBA Live will, of course, be on show, but EA also has an extensive lineup of new properties it will have on offer. New IPs on display include EA Dice's first-person parkour-inspired action game Mirror's Edge, EA Redwood Shores' survival horror game Dead Space, and EA Maxis' much-anticipated sim-everything Spore.

Other highlights from EA's E3 presence include EA Mythic's long-in-development massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online, which was finally dated for release later this year. EA-owned Pandemic will have a pair of titles on hand: the oft-delayed Mercenaries 2 and The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, a new action adventure based on Peter Jackson's J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired films.

EA Partners will also be well represented at the show. Crytek's Crysis Warhead, a spin-off to last year's critically acclaimed PC shooter, will join Left 4 Dead, a survival horror shooter from Valve-owned Turtle Rock Studios. The Harmonix-developed, MTV Games-published, EA-distributed Rock Band 2, which will lead on the Xbox 360 this September, will also be part of EA's cavalcade.

EA's exhibition lineup for this year's E3 is listed below.

Dead Space - 360, PS3, PC - EA Redwood Shores
FaceBreaker - 360, PS3, Wii - EA Canada
Hasbro Family Game Night - Wii, PS2 - EA Casual
Littlest Pet Shop - Wii, DS, PC - EA Casual
Madden NFL 09 - 360, Xbox, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS - EA Tiburon
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - 360, PS3, PS2, PC - Pandemic
Mirror's Edge - 360, PS3, PC - EA DICE
Scrabble - EA Mobile
Sudoku - EA Mobile
Tetris - EA Mobile
Spore - EA Mobile
Monopoly - EA Mobile
Yahtzee! - EA Mobile
Wolfenstein RPG - EA Mobile
Tetris POP - EA Mobile
Kung Fu Panda - EA Mobile
The Sims 2 Apartment Pets - DS - EA Redwood Shores
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09- 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii - EA Tiburon
Zubo - DS - EA Bright Light
MySims - PC - EA Redwood Shores
MySims Kingdom - Wii, DS - EA Redwood Shores
Spore - PC - EA Maxis
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - PC - EA Mythic
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 - 360, PC - EALA
Crysis Warhead - PC - Crytek
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS, PC, Mac, Mobile - EA Bright Light
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest - 360, PS3, PC, DS - Pandemic
SimCity Creator - Wii - EA Redwood Shores
NBA Live 09 - 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii - EA Canada
NCAA Football 09 - 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii - EA Tiburon
Skate It - Wii, DS - EA Black Box and EA Montreal
Rock Band 2 - 360 - Harmonix
Left 4 Dead - 360, PC - Valve

147 Comments

  • carrisa_china GameSpot staff member

    Posted Jul 29, 2008 7:57 pm PT

    Very good summary list...

  • insanitycheck

    Posted Jul 29, 2008 4:44 pm PT

    too many games!

  • StanleyL GameSpot staff member

    Posted Jul 22, 2008 10:53 am PT

    so many games

  • SethandJeremy

    Posted Jul 18, 2008 5:08 pm PT

    Well that is a really long list.

  • B-boy

    Posted Jul 15, 2008 8:04 pm PT

    what about battlefied 3

  • lonewolf1044

    Posted Jul 15, 2008 3:03 pm PT

    yomama15, What you talking about. Blizzard is one of the best companies that put out good games. I can't wait for Diablo 3 even though I was trying to figure out on how they were going to pull it off.

  • willripyouanew1

    Posted Jul 14, 2008 2:31 pm PT

    Half of those titles are casual games oh and by the way..screw spore!

  • VelociBlade

    Posted Jul 14, 2008 2:18 pm PT

    I agree, Spore will rock E3!

  • SavoyPrime

    Posted Jul 14, 2008 8:25 am PT

    Out of all of those games listed, Spore is the only one I'm interested in.

  • pourya_ahmadian

    Posted Jul 14, 2008 7:29 am PT

    ea GO,GO;AND BRING US MORE BEAUTY GAMES;

  • mute4

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 10:55 pm PT

    I wanna see more about Mirrors Edge!!

  • JimmyCos

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 9:36 pm PT

    yomama15: go back to school

  • yomama15

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 8:04 pm PT

    Spore will be awesome!!! WOW sucks so much ass!!! Starcraft is over rated!!!

    Diablo is good to and I hope SC 2 does'nt have the same annoyingly gay and **** up interface problkems as the first and its gay expansion(I liked thestrories in both though, but it was nearly un **** playable.)

  • MindsEye13

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 5:55 pm PT

    jason19.........WTF!?

  • jason19

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 4:41 pm PT

    that games sure be like 39 to bay games made us walit sind 203 to ship in usa we live come been like send mach be out sure low prist made up pay demo

  • pidow

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 8:18 am PT

    Only four for me out of this list will due me just fine.

  • MindsEye13

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 7:41 am PT

    To accuse a video game company of rushing games for Christmas profits is simply just cruel. They would NEVER do such a thing, THORINATOR!! You are so jaded!!
    Now if you'll excuse me, I have to pick up my big bag of money from EA for posting this comment on their behalf and have a scalding hot shower to scrub away my guilt!

  • THORINATOR

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 6:06 am PT

    Alot of good games in this list...hope they're not just rushing them for the sake of Christmas profits! Looking forward to LOTR: Conquest, Dead space & Mercenaries! Loads of great looking games on the way, Can't wait!

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