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The senior vice president of EA’s digital division has claimed that the importance of the relationship between publishers and retail is eroding. Specifically, he believes that the rise of digital has allowed publishers to form a closer, more direct relationship with consumers that is far more important”. We’re clearly going …

Dead Space 3 pre-orders are now being accepted through at least one retailer; in spite of the fact that EA has never actually had the chance to announce the title in any official sense. South African games website BT Games (via Shacknews) is currently taking pre-orders for the would be …

EA expects their company to grow substantially in employee count by the end of the year, despite reports earlier this week that the publisher was set to let go as many as 1,000 workers. EA is growing and looking to hire hundreds of people for our digital, console, mobile and …

Publisher expecting headcount increase by end of year despite reports of up to 1,000 imminent layoffs at the company

Users who have been banned from EA’s Origin network will now be able to access the single player content of any games on their account. That’s after EA decided to review the terms and conditions of its Origin user agreement. Previously any ban from origin resulted in account holders being …

Thirty days of free game time now available to players who have reached legacy level six

EA will release Crysis 3 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2013, it has confirmed. The blurb describes it as the premier sandbox shooter experience of 2013”, suggesting an experience more akin to the first game than the 2011 sequel. Indeed, that’s an assumption supported by the first batch …

EA returns as publisher; Wii U edition not mentioned; Steam edition unlikely

Publisher EA has denied an unsubstantiated report claiming that it is on the verge of announcing between 500-1,000 job losses after the story spread like the wildfire across the internet this morning. StartupGrind claims to have confirmation of the claims and says that lower-than-expected sales of Star Wars: The Old …

Tech website claims the publisher is set to reduce its global workforce by 5-10%