{"id":9797,"date":"2011-02-02T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-teases-new-fps-they-want-you-to-care-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9797-ea-teases-new-fps-they-want-you-to-care-about","title":{"rendered":"EA teases new FPS they want you to care about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to EA CEO John Riccitiello, the publisher is gearing up to announce a &lsquo;very exciting&rsquo; brand new FPS before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an investor conference, Riccitiello said that , &#8220;The intention for us is to have strong FPS entries each year.&rdquo;<br \/>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to give away the thunder from our call but for quite a long time now I&#8217;ve been saying it&#8217;s our long term goal to take back the first person shooter category leadership.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made strong progress in calendar &#8217;10 over calendar &#8217;09. This year, with the tail-end of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 still doing well and Medal of Honor still doing well&#8230; with Crysis and Bulletstorm we&#8217;re clearly going to make more progress towards our goal and that&#8217;s before we get to what I think is going to be a very exciting entry later in the year that we&#8217;re not yet announcing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When reading his comments, my mind immediately jumped to Battlefield 3, although that was formally announced last year and Riccitiello is referring to something completely new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher continues drive to &quot;take back&quot; FPS genre <\/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-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","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=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}