{"id":13552,"date":"2011-08-19T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-looking-at-a-couple-of-old-franchises-for-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13552-ea-looking-at-a-couple-of-old-franchises-for-revival","title":{"rendered":"EA looking at \u201ca couple of old franchises\u201d for revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s no school like the old school, and EA knows it &ndash; that&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;ve been mulling over their back catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do have a couple of old franchises that we&rsquo;re looking at right now&hellip; reimagining them and bringing them back,&rdquo; EA Labels overlord Frank Gibeau tells <a href=\" http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/315982\/ea-bringing-back-a-couple-of-old-franchises-exec-teases\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got 25 years of good IPs and I&rsquo;ve worked on a few of them in my career like Road Rash and the Strike series. So I have a strong affinity for a lot of the things we&rsquo;ve done in the past.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We kind of have a rule which is you&rsquo;ve got to have a really good reason to bring something back &ndash; what can you do to it that makes it fresh and brings something new to the equation of the franchise?&rdquo; he explains, citing Medal of Honor as an example.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When we look at Road Rash, the Strike series or some of these other franchises we really challenge ourselves. We can&rsquo;t just put them on new tech with the same gameplay from ten years ago, we&rsquo;ve got to have something new. That&rsquo;s the typical challenge that we have.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oh oh oh, please be Theme Hospital. Or Dungeon Keeper. Or a proper SimCity, not that stupid SimCity Societies rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, of course, there&rsquo;s that is-it, isn&rsquo;t-it Syndicate reboot in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, please be Theme Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}