PlayStation

What You Get With EA Sports’ New Premium Subscription

What is EA Sports’ Season Ticket? It’s a $US25 VIP pass, good for a year, getting you past the velvet rope to your favourite sports game on a weekend when everyone else is still playing last year’s edition. It offers a 20 per cent discount on paid downloadable content.


PlayStation

EA Sports Subscription Gets Diehard Fans In The Game Early

EA Sports will offer an annual subscription for hardcore sports gamers, which includes a three-day, pre-release full-play preview of five of the label’s most popular titles, and a 20 per cent discount on their paid downloadable content catalogue. EA Sports’ “Season Ticket” begins Aug. 27 with Madden NFL 12, and it will cost $US25.


March 28, 2011
In Real Life

Owen’s Good Walk Spoiled Is Tomorrow At 2

If you want to see me get smoked over the first nine of Augusta National, I’ll be facing EA Sports’ Justin Patel in a mini tournament being streamed live tomorrow at 2 p.m. EDT. Justin and I will be playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters and discussing the game. You can watch live here; we’ll also be embedding the stream here when that gets up. Know what else will be embedding the stream? My tee shot.


January 12, 2011
PC

Facebook Hits The Links With PGA Tour Golf Challenge

PGA Tour Golf Challenge, the third Facebook game produced by EA Sports over the past year, is now live on the social networking site, bringing real-time 3D gameplay elements to a genre with few console-style games.


July 20, 2010
News

Scandal May Have ‘Permanently Damaged’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Electronic Arts was one of the few major brands not to run from Tiger Woods during the golfer’s embarrassingly public sex scandal this winter, but that loyalty hasn’t paid off, frets one analyst.