Nascar 2011 coming on to Nintendo Wii ?

You may already be aware of the speculation that Activision will be the publisher for NASCAR series from NASCAR 2011 onwards, which means EA is out.

So now Eutechnix will develop and Activision will publish the next title of the NASCAR series making NASCAR 2011 for Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 based on the license.

But will NASCAR coming to Nintendo Wii?

According to this story, it will.

Based on speculative talk, based on various insiders, the upcoming NASCAR game will have:

1) an in-depth career mode
2) a forty-three grid
3) a new damage model where roll overs, blow overs and more happen

4) fully motion captured pit crew and driver

5) tyres can be worn down and their pressure and temperature will affect the racing performances

Activision To Publish Eutechnyx's NASCAR 2011, EA is out

According to Gamasutra, Activision will take control of the NASCAR license with the upcoming release of NASCAR 11. The Sources close to the situation, have told Gamasutra that Eutechnix will develop and Activision will publish the next title in the long-running NASCAR franchise. which means that after years of association( since 1997) with NASCAR, Electronic Arts will be out.

As per an anonymous post on the EA Sports forums, citing some inside source,

NASCAR 2011 could hit stores two weeks before next year's Daytona 500, which is scheduled for Feb. 20. This gets us a start of sale date of Feb 6. Gamasutra could not confirm this report.

But credence to the above speculation, might had come much earlier, when following the early 2009 release of NASCAR Kart Racing, EA Sports had said that there are no plans right now for NASCAR from EA. Additional facts which give credebility to the speculation is Eutechnyx, currently working on driving MMO Auto Club Revolution, hiring away EA Sports NASCAR veteran Ed Martin back in March.

Eutechnyx, the company behind racing titles like Test Drive Le Mans, Big Mutha Truckers and SuperCar Challenge is having a great time afterall. It recently received a £6 million ($9.25 million) investment from Dutch VC firm Prime Technology Ventures.

EA : Sony PS3 Can Beat Xbox 360

According to Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA),

Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console has the potential to beat rival Microsoft's Xbox 360 in the UK gaming market.Emphasising that despite a slow start in the global market, the PS3 gaming console is catching up with its rivals in terms of sales and popularity and may soon conquer the UK video game market.

In the UK Sony PS3 is still head-to-head with Xbox, but on the continent Sony is traditionally stronger than Microsoft, according to EA.

EA will soon release games compatible with Sony Move and Microsoft's Kinect.

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EA determined to beat Activision and its Call of Duty

EA's Medal of Honor franchise hasn’t got the kind of response over the past few years as Activision’s Call of Duty series has. Activision's CoD has continuously any and all contenders in the first-person shooter war genre, year-after-year.

This is not going well with EA; and it wants to overtake the Call of Duty franchise,no matter what. But for obvious reasons,EA underlining that that the process will take some time.

EA emphasised two of its best guns; Battlefield, which sold very well this spring and came close to outperforming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, in some countries.

Notably, Activision has its share of failures too. Its Infinity Ward performed like a dud and collapsed earlier this year. But still EA has to work hard to beat Activision, whose Call of Duty: Black Ops is doing pretty well.

APB character artist launches Montynero--A game art company

artAPB's lead character artist character Jimmy O'Ready has moved on. This former employer of Realtime Worlds, which collapsed earlier this month has launched Montynero, made up of two art studios: Montynero Characters and Montynero Concept Art.

Previously, O'Ready worked at EA on the SSX and Need For Speed franchises.