IGN writes: "Whether it was in his time at the frontline of the console war with Microsoft or his guidance of SEGA out of the hardware business, Peter Moore has for many a year been a perennial figure in videogame news, and his new tenure at the head of EA Sports looks to be no different. After 10 months, Moore's already managed to grab headlines in his attempts to push EA's division away from the reputation that has long plagued it among core gamers, and as it embraces the Wii's unique interface while pushing the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles to new heights you have to admit it's actually working. As long as you're not a PC gamer, that is. We took the opportunity to sit down with Moore as he briefly visited London, to talk about the future of EA Sports, working with the Wii and some of his more delightful fans.
IGN: How's life at Electronic Arts been treating you?
Peter Moore: I think EA's great. We're about to really kick off the cycle of EA Sports games – with no disrespect to Nascar, which has already shipped – College Football will be shipping in the next couple of weeks and that really signifies the start of the sports videogames season. And, of course, the big beast that is Madden will go out in August, and then we have Tiger, NBA, NFL and FIFA all coming out before early October. It's the first time I've been through the cadence of all the titles – I've only been at EA for 10 months so I haven't been through the cycle of the year before. I'm looking forward to it."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
