EA showcases upcoming video games

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Jacobs came onstage and proceeded to explain to the crowd just how unlikely he would have thought, a year ago, that he would be appearing at the showcase event as an EA employee.

He quipped that if someone had said the two most likely scenarios for his future were that he'd be on board at EA or be working in fast food, he would have replied, "Would you like fries with that?"

But Jacobs said he found in discussions with EA that the video game giant's management had a "real passion for making great games and great online games" and as a result, he decided it was a good move to sell his company.

He then showed an early version of "Warhammer Online," much to the delight of many of the game journalists and others in the room.

Brown then came back onstage and said how pleased he was that so many people had joined EA in recent years through acquisitions such as Jacobs and Mitch Lasky, senior vice president of EA Mobile and formerly CEO of EA acquiree Jamdat.

ESPN podcasts
Other companies to show off their games at the showcase event Thursday included Valve, which presented "Half Life 2: Episode 2," as well as "Portal," a separate game that will ship with it.

Then, the producers of several EA games came onstage in succession to present their games. Those titles included "Lord of the Rings: White Council," "Madden 07" and "NBA Live 07."

John Schappert, EA's senior vice president and group studio general manager, also offered new details about how the company is integrating new technology based on its 15-year partnership with ESPN.

Much of the information had been discussed previously, but some was new. For example, Schappert explained how players will be able to access constantly updated ESPN video content from within their games and that "NBA Live 07" will feature the ability to listen to ESPN Radio podcasts.

Brown finished up the presentation by posing the rhetorical question: "What is EA's strategy for communicating with hard-core gamers? To shut up and make great games."

CNET Reports Discovery of Fire & Wheel

Big news day for CNET!

2 day old "news"

Those wacky CNET "editors" in India are 2 days behind with the news. Death spiral continues.....

[Ikthog]

Yeah! You tell em!

Because most gamers get their game news from News.com, hence, it needs to be blogging these things AS they are happening!

Nevermind that pretty much everyone else was reporting this either Thursday or Friday. It's funny that in the age of instantaneous communication, some people forget there are still layers of editors that "real" journalism must trickle through before it's published.

Not to mention that, with Gamespot reporting it in a more timely fashion, CNet probably included it here as more of an afterthought. But since you already read about this, why do you even care?