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It’s time for EA to announce the latest Sims 3 expansion: Ambitions .

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The Sims explore their ‘Ambitions’ in latest expansion pack

Electronic Arts has recently upped its efforts to dissuade gamers from purchasing used copies of games in the form of rewards for “original purchasers” of games like The Saboteur, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. Who’s next? You, Take-Two

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Will Take-Two Follow EA In Its Pursuit Of "Original Purchasers"? [Used Games]

AdFreak’s chronicle of the Dante’s Inferno guerrilla marketing campaign is one hell of a good read. The piece covers ad agency Wieden + Kennedy’s almost year-long viral and guerrilla campaign for the game, which allegedly cost $200,000 and “yielded 47 million impressions of coverage.” The ad agency had a $20,000-a-month budget according to EA, but AdFreak tells Joystiq that W + K likely spent more (of its own money) in the pursuit of industry awards. Although the final months of the campaign didn’t really pop up on our radar, loyal readers will likely recall a few of the earlier ones: the misguided fake E3 protest , the apology-inducing “Sin to Win” contest and Mass: We Pray .

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A recap of Dante’s Inferno’s weird, awful (effective?) marketing

The sixth developer diary for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been released and it features a new (yet familiar) location players will be able to visit when the MMO finally goes live. Devastated by the sinister Sith Lord Darth Malak in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , the post-apocalyptic world of Taris will be a “major world” in the upcoming Bioware MMO

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Star Wars The Old Republic dev diary: Returning to Taris

Now that Dante’s Inferno has been loosed upon the gaming populace, the question of “What’s next for Visceral Games ?” is asked with increasing (and often comical !) frequency. Yeah, we know about Dead Space 2 and there are murmurs of ” The Ripper ” being in development at Redwood Shores, but what else ? While emphasizing the studio’s focus on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, general manager Nick Earl said, “That’s not to say that we don’t have smaller efforts under way and direct-to-consumer efforts on XBLA and PSN.” Earl points to DICE’s downloadable Battlefield 1943 , “which was created in a studio even bigger than Visceral” and managed to break sales records .

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Visceral Games working on XBLA, PSN offerings, says general manager

EA Chief Operating Officer John Schappert dropped five tips for making money in the industry over the next three years on the D.I.C.E.

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EA’s Schappert shares five money-making tips

Click to bust into the image gallery! We’ve got some good news and some bad news for those of you eagerly awaiting EA’s Medal of Honor reboot this summer.

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Medal of Honor screens lack renowned facial hair rendering

Electronic Arts says it will shutter many more of its online games in one month. The publisher said via a service update that on March 16 it will pull the plug on servers for Def Jam: Icon (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), The Godfather (PS3, 360), Lord of the Rings: Conquest (PC, PS3, 360), Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PC only), Need for Speed: Carbon (PSP), Need For Speed: ProStreet (PSP) and The Simpsons (PS3, 360). On April 15, the servers for Burnout 3: Takedown (PlayStation 2) and Army of Two (PlayStation 3, in Asia only) will go dark

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Electronic Arts Takes More Games Offline

For the second year in a row, employees from Electronic Arts’ Tiburon studio in Orlando stopped by the Florida Hospital for Children to deliver games and swag to sick kids. The Orlando Sentinel reported Monday that EA art director Tony Stanley, among others, donated thirty games including Madden NFL 10 and Boom Blox

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EA Employees Brighten Up Orlando Children’s Hospital