harry potter and the half-blood prince
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8:00AM AJ Glasser | It’s a movie tie-in game for a film based on a blockbuster book series, so really, what did you expect of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince besides visual fan service? Originality? More »
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
8:00AM AJ Glasser | It’s a movie tie-in game for a film based on a blockbuster book series, so really, what did you expect of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince besides visual fan service? Originality? More » 
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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
1:40AM Mike Fahey
Tomorrow you can play the game based on the upcoming movie based on the book you’ve probably already read, in EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. More »
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Delaying Harry Potter Has Cost Electronic Arts *THIS* Much
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | Just like the movie, the latest Harry Potter game has been pushed back. How many tears that’ll cost the youth of the world, sadly, we’ll never know. What we do know is how much the delay cost EA in missed revenue for the year. While it’s ultimately pointless trivia – they’ll just make the money next year instead – it’s still interesting to see the kinds of bets the company put on their games prior to release. Seems EA were counting on the Half-Blood Prince to do around $US 120 million worth of business across the 117 platforms it’ll be shipping on, a figure so great it represents around 2.5% of the entire company’s revenue for the year. Those wizards. They big business. Form 8-K for ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. [Yahoo, via Variety] More »
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Half-Blood Prince Game Follows Movie Delay Closely
1:00AM Mike Fahey | In an effort to make sure that the video game of the theatrical version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince follows the movie experience as closely as possible, Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive have decided to push back the game to coincide with the movie’s recently modified summer 2009 release date. It makes sense – after all, they wouldn’t want to ruin the plot of the movie based on the book that everyone has already read. EA’s Bright Light Studio will of course use the extra six months between the original release date and the July movie premiere to polish up the game, giving us the best interactive Harry Potter experience ever. Or they’ll just sit on it and move on to the next one. One of those. More »
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Something Wicked This Way Comes, A New Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Trailer
9:40AM Adam Barenblat | I am sure I will get a lot of flak for this, but I like the Harry Potter movies. It’s my guilty pleasure. Hell, I even have a playlist in my iTunes called “guilty pleasures” filled with 80’s hits and the Harry Potter soundtrack. With the film recently delayed to 2009, we don’t know when the game will come out. However, in the meantime we have this trailer to keep you guys busy. More »
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Wii Impressions
9:40AM Kotaku US Edition | I made a name for myself in video games by savaging Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DS. It was the most awful, most painful, most broken game I’ve ever endured and it’s my tendency to sneer at most movie-based video games anyway. So what did I expect from Half-Blood Prince on the Wii? Certainly not all the fun I had. The events demoed at EA’s Showcase were Potions class, Quidditch and Duelling. Before we got to try the game ourselves, we got to watch two cute EA kids go at it in Duelling. They shook the Remotes and mashed the A buttons and bobbed and weaved their heads in time with the motions on screen. Harry dodges Malfoy’s Stupify, Malfoy gets off a freezing spell that knocks Harry off his feet. Back and forth went the magic spells until Malfoy ran out of health icons and the Duel ended with Harry winning best two out of three. More »I Beat Harry Potter’s Executive Producer In A Wand Duel
7:20AM Leigh Alexander | Okay, so I like Harry Potter. I checked out the Wii version of EA’s upcoming Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, slated to drop alongside the film, mainly because I was interested in seeing what kind of magic wand a Wii remote made. I had it demoed for me by executive producer Jonathan Bunney and producer Justin Manning, and it came down to a fight. Actually, the first part of the demo let me try out the potion-mixing minigame; you’ve got a bubbling cauldron and a desk full of ingredients like little vials, bottles, leeches and caterpillars, and symbol-based instructions for each step of the potion-making scroll up in a little wheel to the screen’s right. A potion-making sim was a first for me, and I exploded the thing a few times, but it was mostly pretty fun, especially when you can tilt the Wii remote to spill a beaker’s contents into the cauldron and then make a stirring motion to whirl it up until the colour changes. It’s all timed and ranks your precision, which was pretty fun. More »
