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Posted Jul 07, 2009 at 06:44PM by Glenn M. Listed in: Games, Screenshots, Grand Slam Tennis Tags: EA Sports, Wimbledon
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Wii Grand Slam Tennis - Image 1With the end of this year's championships at Wimbledon, EA Sports hands out some new screens for Grand Slam Tennis featuring only two players - the champs of the men's and ladies' singles: Roger Federer and Serena Williams. Both are multiple grand-slammers, both amazing athletes, and both share the boxart with Johnny Mac. Was that another EA prediction? If so, they totally nailed that one.

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Posted Jun 01, 2009 at 04:27PM by Glenn M. Listed in: News, Games, Events, Grand Slam Tennis Tags: Electronic Arts, Peter Moore, Los Angeles, Wimbledon, MotionPlus
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Pete Sampras at E3 2009 - Image 1 When it comes to the Wiixclusive Grand Slam Tennis, it's gonna be all about the Slams and the tennis greats who make them worth watching. In the same way, Electronic Arts shows that they know how to make their grand slam title worth watching now that they've brought a tennis great to Los Angeles, raising the bar for all special guests to show in the expo. Their special guest is none other than 14-time Grand Slam winner, Pete Sampras.

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Posted May 30, 2009 at 04:31PM by Glenn M. Listed in: News, Weekend Warrior Tags: Square Enix, Nintendo, Poker, Wimbledon, Team Twiizers, Tantric
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Wii DS Weekend Warrior - Image 1You can read it, you can already breathe it - E3 anticipation is quickly building up, teaser after teaser, bit by bit of every chunk of info we get. We've got all sorts of pre-E3 news on the Nintendo side this week. And as if they were holding their own homebrew-E3 this week, Tantric and the other Wiibrewers have rolled out some pretty cool updates and releases for their projects. The gist? We all win. The details? Read on.

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Posted May 29, 2009 at 07:38PM by Glenn M. Listed in: Videos, Games, Grand Slam Tennis Tags: Electronic Arts, EA Sports, Wimbledon
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Roger beats Rafa in trailer - Image 1When you've got a game called Grand Slam Tennis, of course it's gonna be all about the Slams! This trailer from Electronic Arts will now take us a tour of the four Grand Slam events in the ATP and WTA tours, featuring the courts and grand stages of the epic Grand Slam matches, plus a few interesting matchups along the way. Just as the French Open heats up in Roland Garros right now, there's a clip in the vid that tennis fans might want to take note of.

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Posted Mar 12, 2009 at 10:08PM by Glenn M. Listed in: News, Games Tags: Wiimote, EA Sports, Wimbledon
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John McEnroe - Image 1When talking about tennis greats, it's always names like Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, or Roger Federer. Easily forgotten is one of the most lovable champs in tennis - the hot-tempered John McEnroe. Oh yes, Johnny-Mac is in Grand Slam Tennis and he's gonna be snapping at the chair umpire...and snapping his racket in two. More in the full article.

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Posted Jun 12, 2007 at 08:59AM by Karl B. Listed in: Interviews, Games, Boogie Tags: Electronic Arts, Alain Tascan, EA Montreal, Wimbledon
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With dancing, karaoke and the ability to let players make their own videos, Electronic Arts' Boogie for the Nintendo Wii video game console is quite an ambitious rhythm game. Video game news website IGN recently got their hands on the game as well as more Boogie information straight from EA Montreal studio GM and Boogie lead developer Alain Tascan himself.

The freestyle dance controls in Boogie were earlier thought to be able to make the on-screen characters do what the player does. According to IGN however, the controls in the early Boogie copy they got to play felt a bit disconnected. Nevertheless, the controls are simple and intuitive. Here's Tascan on the reasoning behind the simplicity of the game's controls.

After we did SSX on Tour for Wii we realised that there were a lot of movements players were required to do. For many people this was a little bit too hardcore and they would get frustrated. So for Boogie we wanted anyone to be able to pick it up and not get confused by overly-complicated controls.


Actually though, people who play have a really good workout. I reckon some of the developers could probably go along to Wimbledon when it starts because their arms are so strong!


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As for the songs, Tascan revealed that EA is planning to include up to 40 songs in the game covering everything from the 70s to more modern hits. These songs will all be cover versions as EA had to separate the lyrics from the rest of the track for use in the game's karaoke mode.

Once they have their groove on, players can also save their user-created videos to the Wii's SD card. Unfortunately, Boogie doesn't support Wii Connect24, but players can still share their video with their friends. "You can save your videos on the card and then take to your friend's house, so they can watch them," said Tascan.

For the full interview and impressions on the game, click on the "read" link below. Boogie is currently slated for an August release in the U.S.

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