{"id":45269,"date":"2012-10-11T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=23200"},"modified":"2012-10-11T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:39:42","slug":"nhl-13-video-game-update-news-ea-sports-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45269","title":{"rendered":"NHL 13 Video Game UPDATE & NEWS – EA Sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Electronic Arts Inc., announced today a record-setting launch for EA SPORTSTM NHL\u00ae13. EA estimates that worldwide sell through for NHL 13 in its first week is up 9 percent* globally over last year\u2019s previous franchise high, and fans are deeply engaged with the game\u2019s new connected experiences.<\/p>\n

Headlined by all – new True Performance Skating and EA SPORTS Hockey I.Q., NHL 13 offers an innovative new gameplay experience that definitively captures the speed, creativity and strategy of NHL\u00ae hockey. NHL 13 also delivers brand new experiences that connect hockey fans to their friends and the real world of hockey with the all-new GM Connected and NHL Moments Live modes. Game Informer calls NHL 13 \u201cthe best playing NHL of this generation\u201d, and it\u2019s now available in retail stores across North America and Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cNHL 13 has incredible new gameplay innovation, and it\u2019s the most connected NHL title we\u2019ve ever created,\u201d said Andrew Wilson, Executive Vice President of EA SPORTS. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of this year\u2019s game, and we\u2019re extremely happy to see our fans worldwide embracing it in record numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

How fans are playing NHL 13*:
\n\u00b7 Since the launch of NHL 13, fans have created just under 50,000 of their own alternate versions of the NHL through the new GM Connected feature in NHL 13.
\n\u00b7 During the first week, the New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins were the most popular teams used across all game modes in NHL 13.
\n\u00b7 Fans have played over 3.7 million online games, or the equivalent of over 350 games a minute.
\n\u00b7 Fans have scored just under 5 million goals in the first week, dwarfing the 244 goals scored during the first week of the real 2011-2012 NHL regular season.<\/p>\n

*Based on internal EA estimates<\/p>\n

Assets:
\nTo download assets, please visit the EA press site at http:\/\/info.ea.com.<\/p>\n

NHL 13 was developed at EA Canada in Vancouver and is rated E10+ by the ESRB and PEGI 12; visit www.esrb.org and www.pegi.info for more information. Become a fan of EA SPORTS NHL on Facebook at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/easportsnhl and follow us on Twitter via http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/easportsnhl.<\/p>\n

For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game communities, please visit www.easports.com to connect, share and compete.<\/p>\n

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sports through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL\u00ae hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, NCAA\u00ae Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR\u00ae golf, SSXTM, and Fight Night boxing. For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit www.easports.com.<\/p>\n

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Electronic Arts Inc., announced today a record-setting launch for EA SPORTSTM NHL\u00ae13. EA estimates that worldwide sell through for NHL 13 in its first week is up 9 percent* globally over last year\u2019s previous franchise high, and fans are deeply engaged with the game\u2019s new connected experiences. Headlined by all – new True Performance Skating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,6531,2727,2590],"class_list":["post-45269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-update","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}