EA's 2009 release schedule revealed; Dead Space Wii announced @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on February 04, 2009

News: Mass Effect II goes multiplatform, Bad Company 2 announced & more inside.

As part of their quarterly conference call for investors, Electronic Arts has revealed their very large slate of games that they plan to release in 2009 and into 2010.

In the Spring, EA will focus heavily on the Wii with the release of the Wii Fit-like EA Sports Active and EA Sports Tennis 2009. Moving into June, EA spreads out into multiplatform titles such as Fight Night Round 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) and Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince (DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360). The Sims 3 will also be released in June, after being pushed back from a February 20 release date.

Like most game publishers, EA only has a few games scheduled for the Summer. Those games include Need For Speed: Shift (PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360) and the yearly mainstays that are NCAA Football 2010 and Madden NFL 2010.

More Need For Speed will be released in the Fall as Need For Speed: Nitro (DS, Wii) is currently slotted for an October or November release along with NBA Live 2010. The next game from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions, Brutal Legend (PS3, Xbox 360), and BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) will also be released during the Fall.

Closing out 2009, EA has announced that Harmonix will release their game based on the music of The Beatles before the end of 2009. The company has also announced that Dead Space for the Wii will come out before the end of the year. Dead Space will be the first of several "core intellectual properties and franchise" that EA plans to bring to the Wii. On a down note, EA said that there will be no new Medal of Honor game in 2009.

Finally, EA listed a few games that will be released in early 2010. These include Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) from DICE and Dante's Inferno (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), from EA Redwood Shores, the creators of Dead Space. Mass Effect II will also be released in early 2010 as a multiplatform release. However, EA did not say whether the series would make the jump to the PS3 or whether "multiplatform" refers only to a PC and Xbox 360 release as with the first game.

We'll have more soon.