EA Delays February Game Releases

Electronic Arts announced that they are delaying the release of Godfather II and The Sims 3, both of which were supposed to be released this month.

No official word was given as to the reason for the delay, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the massive quarterly loss EA also just announced.

These games, along with Dragon Age: Origins (a game previously delayed by EA), are now expected to be released in the fourth quarter. The Sims 3 now has a June 3rd release date with the other two not having confirmed release dates.

Saints Row 2 Delayed

THQ has confirmed that Saints Row 2 will be dealyed until October 14th. The original release date was August 24th.

THQ said "marketing and issues and product quality" are the reasons behind the decision.

Sounds good to me. I really enjoyed the way Saints Row took the good parts of GTA and made them better. I did have a lot of bug problems, so if they are fixing those then I'm glad it's delayed. Nothing pissed me off more than driving along and then getting stuck in a building because the Xbox didn't draw it there fast enough.

I imagine GTA IV's success is playing a small role in this as well. I hope SR2 really ups the game, like they did with their first release.

skate for 360 delayed...

...for two days. So the game should now be in stores on Friday September 14th instead of Wednesday September 12th.

No real reason has been given for the delay, but so far fans have taken the news well. The announcement was made on the EA skate forums, and everyone seemed very mature about it. Shocking. No word on if this will affect ship dates in other countries, but I'm guessing it won't.

It is only a two day delay, and that's not bad at all. Now Eric has two more days to scrounge up the cash for the game. All that dancing on the monorail station for quarters is bound to pay off!

Edit: Mass Effect Not Delayed

8 pm - Earlier I told you about reports saying Mass Effect has been delayed until December 7, 2007. Chris Priestly, Community Coordinator, for Bioware over at Mass Effect's website has since gone on the record to say that Mass Effect is not delayed and will still launch in November. The earlier post is after the jump.

Old, inaccurate post: Luckily, this time it's not so long, but reports are surfacing that stores are e-mailing customers who preordered Mass Effect, letting them know that the game's release has been delayed until December 7, 2007.

I surfed over to xbox.com to see if they had changed the date there yet. They haven't, but they did take Mass Effect off of the Upcoming Games list again.

Wasn't Mass Effect voted best game of 2005 or 2006 or something? It feels like this game will never come out! But, with both GTA IV and Mass Effect leaving the November release pool that does free up some of my gaming dollars for that month...

Mass Effect Delay

In Podcast 6, I mentioned that Mass Effect's release was pushed back a week. Now it's being pushed back even further... to September! This will put the space RPG in competition with Microsoft's other big upcoming RPG release Blue Dragon. But more importantly, this means that I won't be able to waste a great many hours playing it this summer. So sad...