Electronic Arts has laid off members of the development team responsible for Steven Spielberg's block-knocker series Boom Blox, though it appears that the team's last project--a Project Natal title--may live on at Harry Potter developer EA Bright Light.

"The Boom Blox team was laid off today," now-former Electronic Arts Los Angeles senior software engineer Jeff Dixon wrote on LinkedIn, as noted by Blue's News. When reached for details, Dixon told the site that a total of fourteen employees had been cut. Read more »

Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 motion-tracking add-ons coming in late 2010 will launch alongside support from publisher Electronic Arts, the company has affirmed.

"With respect to the motion control games on [Project] Natal / Xbox and the Sony Motion Controller, we will be supporting both of those platforms at launch," explained EA COO John Schappert in a conference call. "We don't have any titles to announce right now on those, but we will be supporting those and we are hopeful on those." Read more »

In celebration of the holiday season, Electronic Arts today sent out some new cheat codes for EALA's ball-throwing, block-pulling Wii physics game Boom Blox.

"At the Boom Blox title screen, hit up, right, down, left on the D-pad button," the company instructed. "Type in the [case-sensitive] codes below using the keyboard." Read more »

Japanese Association of Psychiatric Hospitals wants to see Dementium: The Ward, a Nintendo DS survival horror FPS set in a deranged hospital, taken off the shelves.

The association, which represents almost all Japanese psychiatric hospitals, claimed the game "fosters prejudice and discrimination" according to Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper. It added that "the game uses the tradition of psychiatry in name but uses imagery of attacking patients" and requested that the game's website be pulled along with the game. Read more »

Following a not so impressive first month on retail shelves, EALA and Steven Spielberg's physics-driven puzzle action title Boom Blox has sold over 450,000 copies since launch, publisher Electronic Arts revealed today.

The news arose from an investor conference call held this afternoon, in which EA CFO Eric Brown said the title met the publisher's expectations since its launch in early May. Read more »

Despite critical acclaim, EA LA and Steven Spielberg's physics-driven puzzle action title Boom Blox (Wii) only sold 60,000 units during its first month at US retailers,

sales-tracking firm NPD informed GameDaily.

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EA today released a new video of the Spielberg-produced, EA LA developed Wii title Boom Blox.

You can do a lot of things in Boom Blox, but I'll let The Voice speak to that.

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Publisher Electronic Arts just sent over a few new screenshots from EA LA and Steven Spielberg's physics-driven puzzle action title Boom Blox (Wii).

The new shots detail a number of the characters that inhabit the world of Boom Blox, including mustached monkeys, happy doggies and frightened kitties. Read more »

EA Los Angeles and Steven Spielberg's physics-driven puzzle Boom Blox (Wii) will arrive in North America on May 6, Kotaku reports, with the European version set to drop on May 9.

Revealed back in February, the block-tumbling title has over 300 levels, with players able to make their own stages in Create Mode and share them with online friends through WiiConnect24.

We now have a trailer for Boom Blox, the Wii-exclusive action puzzle game announced yesterday. Developed by EA Los Angeles in collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, Boom Blox will be released this May.

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Electronic Arts has pulled back the curtain on Boom Blox, the first of several EA Los Angeles-developed titles stemming from the company's collaboration with renowned director and producer Steven Spielberg.

Due out in May, the Wii-exclusive action-puzzler features over 300 levels, with players able to make their own stages in Create Mode and share them with online friends through WiiConnect24. Read more »