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EA Sports could see a tough triple whammy in coming year
Electronic Arts said in its earnings call today that its mainstay EA Sports label will face strong headwinds in the fiscal year that ends March 31, 2012. EA is the king of sports games and has pretty...
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EA Sports chief leading the charge into digital games (interview)
Electronic Arts is in the midst of rebooting its EA Sports business. Not only is the company re-entering basketball games with NBA Live coming this fall, it has also snatched the all-important license...
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Settlement filed in EA Madden NFL Football price-fixing lawsuit
Attorneys have reached a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit against video game publisher Electronic Arts. The suit claims the gaming giant violated antitrust and consumer protection laws,...
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Madden developer’s lawsuit against EA going to trial
A federal judge has rejected video game publisher Electronics Arts’ attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the creator of Madden NFL. Robin Antonick developed the first version of EA’s...
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How a studio ignored the hate to make Mike Vick: GameTime
In another universe, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick would likely have his own triple-A video game. In 2004, the superstar QB had a Nike sponsorship and made the cover of Electronic Arts’...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Minecraft sells 10M on mobile, Call of Duty:...
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Activision...
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EA kills its controversial Online Pass program
EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response. “Yes, we’re discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior...
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EA’s Peter Moore foresees the death of the ‘death of console’ predictions...
Stay on top of all our E3 2013 coverage here. Few companies are betting as big on the next-generation consoles as Electronic Arts. Peter Moore, chief operating officer at EA, believes that the...
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EA exec Frank Gibeau: Betting on next-gen consoles, mobile, and doing right...
Electronic Arts is betting everything on a successful transition to the next generation of video games. And the man who has to make that happen without any major ambushes, car crashes, fumbles, or...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision buys out Vivendi for $8.17B, Zynga lays...
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Activision buys...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One coming Nov. 22, Sony possibly dabbling in...
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Microsoft...
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EA’s Peter Moore wants to transform esports jocks into mainstream stars
Electronic Arts wants to be a part of the esports market. It just doesn’t like calling it that. While most of us call it esports, EA likes to use the term competitive gaming. Chief competition officer...
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If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Activision...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One coming Nov. 22, Sony possibly dabbling in...
This week, Microsoft revealed the Xbox One is launching Nov. 22 (a week after the PlayStation 4), gamers spent $2.88 billion on games in the second quarter, and video production studio Area 5 releases...
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SuperData: Digital games market generated $7.9 billion in August
There’s good news and bad news for fans of massively multiplayer online games. In August, social MMOs were down 4 percent year-over-year and pay-to-play MMOs were down 25 percent, according to industry...
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NBA 2K’s real tattoos are taking it to a different kind of court
GUEST: With increasing frequency, video games are depicting tattoos that very closely resemble those inked on the bodies of prominent professional athletes. While many would assume these tattoos...
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Madden NFL creative director Rex Dickson leaves EA after 6 years
Madden NFL creative director Rex Dickson has left Electronic Arts after six years in the position. In a post on Twitter, Dickson said he made the decision after “discussions with other leaders on the...
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Video game hall of fame inductees: Tomb Raider, FFVII, Madden, Spacewar
The World Video Game Hall of Fame has announced its inductees for 2018. The winners include Spacewar, John Madden Football, Tomb Raider, and Final Fantasy VII. The four inductees span multiple decades,...
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How Electronic Arts is responding to the esports explosion
Electronic Arts says that competitive gaming is naturally built into its multiplayer in titles such as Battlefield, Madden NFL, and FIFA. But the explosion in esports has caused the company to think...
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What Alienware has learned from 10 years of esports
Frank Azor cofounded Alienware more than two decades ago, and so he had the look of a grizzled veteran at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles this week. As...
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