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It was the first conversation we had as soon as FIFA for Vita was announced. You’ve had a late night taking your Manager Mode team to the brink of league glory. Your rush down your breakfast, sync your Vita with your PS3, hop off to work and claim a glorious …
Read More »Origin coming to Mac, Facebook and Android
Storefront to offer free-to-play game support
Read More »WATCH IT LIVE: EA’s Gamescom press conference
EA’s Gamescom 2012 press conference is about to kick off, and you can watch the full thing below. Expect details of the company’s rich upcoming roster, which amongst other titles includes the massive FIFA 13, modern military shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. There may …
Read More »EA is well positioned for next-gen success, analysts believe
The management team at EA has convinced analysts that the publisher is well positioned to thrive in the next-gen games market. That isn’t enough to prevent the current financial year being a challenging one, Baird Equity Research’s Colin Sebastian warns, but it bodes well for life beyond the current generation …
Read More »Greg Zeschuk remains at BioWare, but takes back seat role
UPDATE: Zeschuk has confirmed his departure from the role of general manager at BioWare Austin, though he remains an employee at the studio he co-founded. "With regard to BioWare Austin, I handed off the leadership of the studio to Matthew Bromberg quite some time ago (back in May),” he told …
Read More »Rumour: Greg Zeschuk has left BioWare Austin
Studio could be rebranded under the EA label
Read More »The many faces of EA: Nick Earl, EAi
In the final part of our four interview with Electronic Arts bosses, EA Interactive VP Nick Earl discusses how mobile and social is shaping the future of the publisher Where does EA?Interactive fit in with the wider EA business?We’ve got six labels: EA Sports, EA Games, Bioware, Maxis, PopCap and …
Read More »The many faces of EA: Laura Miele, EA Games
In the third of our four EA interviews, EA Games marketing boss Laura Miele discusses Dead Space, Need for Speed, Medal of Honor and Battlefield 3 How was E3 for EA Games?We did something interesting this year in that we waited until E3 to announce Dead Space 3, Need for …
Read More »The many faces of EA: David DeMartini, EA Origin
In the second of our four interviews with various heads of EA’s businesses, we discuss retailing and Steam with EA Origin boss David DeMartini Origin has grown well in its first year. But what’s stopping rival publishers from launching their own service?This isn’t easy. We have tried a couple of …
Read More »Zynga COO John Schappert quits
Resignation comes after former EA exec was stripped of games oversight in board reshuffle
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