EA Announce Home Complex
First the Red Bull space, now EA announce their Home intensions.Published 08/01/2009 at 20:49.
By djhsecondnature.
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We all want things for Home, but at the moment it’s not much more than a fancy chat-room, where you have to queue to play any sort of game. But with the addition of the Red Bull space today and now a press release from Electronic Arts, things may just start happening.
EA have just announced plans for a EA SPORTS™ Complex, which is currently in development and is slated to launch this Spring. ”We’re proud to support the PlayStation Home Beta with a very robust offering from EA SPORTS,” said Peter Moore, president of EA SPORTS. “As part of our continued commitment to the connected experience and the digitization of our business, the EA SPORTS Complex is a rich new online environment that presents a compelling and immersive social gaming experience for the global sports audience.”
The press release we were sent says EA and Sony have been hard at work to create a space that “both casual and hardcore gamers will enjoy, allowing Home users to play exclusive new EA Sports multiplayer games, meet EA Sports fans, check leaderboards and watch EA Sports trailers.” And better yet, EA is currently working with Sony with further PlayStation Home support, with announcements coming in the future.
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wolfehound22 | 08/01/2009 20:57
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wow sounds awesome. I hope we get more and more like this
theshockwave | 08/01/2009 20:57
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Is Sony feeling a bit ill?? Things seem to be… wait for it… happening.
andytorr | 09/01/2009 09:30
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I seems that way :D
YOURMUMANDME | 08/01/2009 21:02
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It’s actually really reassuring to know that developers are still keen to provide original material for Sony , because , as we all know , it has been a bit doom and gloom for a while now !
I think home will be brilliant by 2010 , trophy cabnets and all , just you wait skeptics , just you wait ! :)
berto54 | 08/01/2009 21:07
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so then; 2010, the year of the PS3…?
:P
This is a great step forward for home, can see more jumping on the bandwagon now one of the big boys has taken the plunge
LiquescentShadow | 08/01/2009 21:20
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Knowing EA and Sony you’ll probably have to pay before you’re allowed in.
berto54 | 08/01/2009 23:39
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twice
SteveTheSkorie | 08/01/2009 22:47
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I only ever liked the BIG sports games, but Im excited about the “further announcements”
Personally, Im hoping for an area on the rooftops of wherever home is where we can run and jump! But inside the buildings we’re given to run over lurk large and weird monsters which we can throw the lamps we spent all that money on at in the hope that we will dismember their limbs!
All at the same time as chatting to other game fans via the annoying on screen keypad :D
cc_star | 08/01/2009 22:54
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BIG were great, haven’t they stopped it now.
All I really want is a way to play an SSX game on my PS3, because Shaun White sucks in comparison.
SteveTheSkorie | 08/01/2009 23:19
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Yep.
And If I remember right, it was some stupid and ridiculous reason that they stopped as well.
Oh I remember. They were inspired by Wii sports to make things simpler.
Ugh.
SSX was one of my favourite sport games of all time! 3 was amazing! A half hour race from the top of the mountain all the way to the bottom?! HELL YEAH!
Hopefully it’ll return in some form sometime. And a good form as well!
noptatic | 08/01/2009 23:49
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I agree, SSX was an epic franchise and one they’d be a fool to drop completely. I even bought the one for the Wii, which hd the worst motion controls I’ve ever experienced, but it was still SSX and I still loved it! Come to think of it, most of the BIG games were good. I owned Shox, Freekstyle, All the SSX’s and Sledstorm. Why oh why aren’t we getting new versions of these. At least we have Motorstorm.
Pixl1983 | 10/01/2009 01:22
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Yeah, that still stands out for me as a great moment in my gaming lifetime. I only hope that they hear the fans and make another.
Otherwise I might try and start a ‘Bring Back SSX Petition’…..
cc_star | 10/01/2009 01:37
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EA should bring back SSX & Road Rash, they are fools not to who obviously don’t want our’s and many other peoples money
BioEye | 09/01/2009 11:21
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Glad to hear it.
Hopefully, with the Red Bull space, we’ll see other companies realise the potential to create spaces in Home. Imagine the prospect of the advertising it gets them…
So, I think a year from now, there’ll be quite a few spaces open.
Btw, what’s going on with that building in the Home Square with the closed door? It’s really annoying me.
Severn2j | 09/01/2009 13:48
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While Im not a fan of the whole EA Sports brand and its endless cycle of releasing a new game every year, any new content for Home can only be a good thing..
mayflame | 10/01/2009 00:30
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Let’s just hope there’s two spaces. Sony has to learn that you can’t put the FIFA fans together with the Madden fans.
On second thought, I gotta go buy some popcorn!
djhsecondnature | 10/01/2009 00:41
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