EA piles on E3 lineup

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 Site moderator

    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!

  • uberjannie

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 6:03 am PT

    Ive saved up a lot of money to buy these games :

    Left 4 Dead Spore (PC)
    Dead Space
    Mirror's Edge
    Mercenaries 2
    Command & Conquer Red Alert 3

  • grimg

    Posted Jul 13, 2008 2:12 am PT

    lol at all those mobile games taking up a few slots to make the 30
    what happened to the good games? cept mercenaries and a select few.
    what about having a decent non-series wrecking need for speed for example? =]

  • DarkerKamikaze

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 10:35 pm PT

    Quality > Quantity imo

  • markimsoad

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 6:07 pm PT

    amazing... nice games!

  • rachkovsky

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 5:03 pm PT

    ahhh just like the the good ol days and 2007 christmas

  • Zoomer30

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 1:51 pm PT

    E3 is now to be known as The 360 Expo, By EA

  • jasonbarbour

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 1:38 pm PT

    No it is not true, The PS3 will get rockband in the fall, while the 360 will receive it as a timed exclusive in ?september? - i think.
    As for whch is better - well thats an opinion - I personally hate both and stay away from these games - though one of them has more stuff (the new ones I mean - rockband obviously had more when it comes to the current versions) -Both will now have guitars, drums, a singing thing, and "cymbls" n'whatnot...

  • combatsoldier

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 12:27 pm PT

    Man I cant wait for dead space. Is it true that 360 is the only console to have rockband. ALso guys im confused. Witch is better, rock band or guitar hero. Please pm.

  • truenextgen

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 7:33 am PT

    Whens the last time the sims really intrested you, and was any good. Ever since the urbs, its gotten stupid. And you have to admit guitar hero and RB are kinda loosing their touch some.

  • tjdeep_2007

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 7:18 am PT

    sooooooooooooooo many EA games.....

  • RonTorque

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 7:00 am PT

    Kool.

  • starf0x999

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 6:40 am PT

    NBA 09!

  • EzEApostle

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 4:48 am PT

    where's Red Alert 3, hmpf

  • CasinoOutlaw247

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 4:04 am PT

    I think "PILE" was the correct term for all this....

  • Gifted_One

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 2:26 am PT

    Go Activision Blizzard!!!!

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Jul 12, 2008 12:30 am PT

    Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, thats it for me, wheres FNR4?

  • alcangel_pa

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 11:56 pm PT

    ohhhhhh man y the dont put gears of war for ps3 damm they are so LAME

  • 360player_eq12

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 10:12 pm PT

    lol Tetris?

  • -Desalbert-

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 5:54 pm PT

    Yes! Quite excited to see some of the finalities of Spore!

  • 4quarters

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 3:06 pm PT

    Rock Band 2-PS3 ??????????

  • enoslives7

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 2:56 pm PT

    Its too bad EA bought the rights to Warhammer. EA is such a crap-factory, they will probably ruin Warhammer's good name.

  • hotrider12

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 1:26 pm PT

    what about need for speed undercover a$$ hoes

  • Takibi

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 11:34 am PT

    Going all out ??

  • funnysplay

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 11:18 am PT

    Huh? Rock Band 2 is exclusive to the 360?

  • melodeathx

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 9:57 am PT

    What about FIFA09?

  • nobeaner

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 9:48 am PT

    EA has a line up this year that is actually pretty exciting to me.

  • Rique1902

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 9:47 am PT

    Will EA announce The Dark knight game?

  • Janpieterzun

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 9:30 am PT

    Is the 360 getting any exclusives?

  • BigDaveyDogz

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 9:23 am PT

    8 games I'm really looking forward to on the list...this is bad. They are: Dead Space, FaceBreaker, Mercs 2, Mirror's Edge, Spore, Warhammer, Rock Band 2 and Left 4 Dead.

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