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Although Microsoft Corp. will supply second-generation Kinect motion sensor with every Xbox One video game console, it will not require game developers to take advantage of it on obligatory basis.

Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft opens the presentation during a press event unveiling Microsoft's new Xbox.

Need for Speed Rivals the franchise's first turn into the new world of next-gen consoles is also coming to the PC.

Need for Speed Rivals the franchise's first turn into the new world of next-gen consoles is also coming to the PC, Ghost Games executive producer Marcus Nilsson confirmed to Joystiq.

A key executive at US publisher Electronic Arts has said that current generation consoles will be supported with games until 2017.

Featuring a Koenigseggon police cruiser, the teaser screenshot was posted on the publisher's Australian Facebook page alongside the text: "Have no rules, show no mercy." EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said yesterday : "Our E3 briefing will be a showcase of next-generation games like Battlefield 4, Need For Speed, a full range of EA Sports games ... (more)

DreamWorks Studios movie "Need for Speed" will film scenes in Columbus during the first week of June, a publicist for the movie confirmed today.

Measuring market share is a bit of a dicey business, because services that measure such things look only at sales of boxed games through conventional retail channels.

Video game piracy is a problem, but just how big is it? According to a newly released study, it's not quite as bad as some companies make it out to be.

It's getting harder to tell real life from simulation, as this in-game screenshot of Gran Turismo 6 demonstrates.

Filming for the screen adaptation of Electronic Arts' Need for Speed franchise has begun in an unlikely location: Macon, Georgia.

EA announced at its most recent earnings call that the company will cut roughly 10 percent, or 900 members, of its workforce.

As E3 2013 creeps ever closer, select companies are beginning to discuss what software will be shown and their plans for the event.

EA says its gearing up for a "great reveal at E3" this year, as the arrival of the next-generation consoles looms.

Road Rash , we all remember that excellent gem from the then once famed and critically praised Electronic Arts? It was a series that stood all on its own as a rebel against the establishment and it soon fell by the wayside during the PSX and mostly the PS2 era.

The next Xbox is based on the "Core" version of Windows 8. This suggests a common apps platform or at least one that is similar to that used by Windows 8. It also suggests that Microsoft could open up this platform to enthusiast developers.

Free2Play currently offers EA's strategy-MMO Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances , medieval role-playing game Lord of Ultima , and the racing-RPG Need for Speed: World .

Electronic Arts continued its reorganization today, laying off an unspecified number of employees.