2006.335 (December 1, 2006)

EA Replay Delayed In Europe

Electronic Arts' European Press Site reports that EA Replay has been pushed back a bit to December 23 in the UK. Although the actual game that Wing Commander fans in the US and UK end up with should be quite similar, the version that England sees will likely also carry localization options for several other European languages. Translating and certifying these variations often holds up games at the last minute. Now that it's been out in the US for a while, I wouldn't expect a significant push back beyond this. Amazon.co.uk has been updated with a March 30, 2007 date. A release between December and March in Europe looks like a good bet at this time.

It's not all bad news over at the UK site however. They've created a nice clean EA Replay logo that scales quite well. We've generated wallpapers for it in 1920x, 1600x, 1280x and 1024x resolutions.

EA Salt Lake Commissioned

Electronic Arts has announced that another developer is formally joining their ranks. Headgate Studios, which is known for contributing to the Tiger Woods and Madden series, will now be known as EA Salt Lake. All of this is business as usual, except for the new focus area for the company. The newly renamed studio will be dedicated solely to development for the Nintendo Wii. GameSpot reports that EA has a number of games in development that will be exclusive to the Wii, but it's not yet clear if entirely original games will be forthcoming. Custom Wii versions of upcoming multiplatform titles will probably have to be produced somewhere, and this may end up being the place.