Tag Archives: EA

FIFA Football can be PlayStation Vita’s big system shifter. And that’s not a statement from publisher EA, but a leading video games developer. Epic Games VP Mark Rein reckons consumers will lap up the title. His comments come after FIFA 12 topped the Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for seven …

Steam rival grows with 21 partnerships signed

EA CEO John Riccitiello has spoken positively about the firm’s last financial quarter which its position as the No.1 PS3 and Xbox 360 publisher in the world in 2011. This was the kind of quarter a CEO loves to report,” he told investors. It is one which generated our highest …

Mobile sales climb 17% to $70million; PopCap revenues up a third

Every Electronic Arts game over the past two years has included an Online Pass, but the upcoming Syndicate reboot will buck this trend. This is because the publisher wants more players to enjoy the online multiplayer modes – the sort of feature EA usually locks with a one-time code included …

BioWare game picks up 1.7 million subscribers in just over a month

Digital platform makes $100 million in twelve months

Unnamed title based on 'key piece of the EA brand IP'

You could almost smell the desperation in some quarters of the game press for EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic to fail. Well guess what? It’s been a huge hit. Since its release in December the game has sold in excess of 2m copies worldwide, with 1.7 players signing up …

Publishing powerhouse EA last night admitted to concerns about the financial health of a "major European retail partner" thought to be GAME. As reported by MCV yesterday, GAME has been rocked by credit insurance issues forcing it into negotiations with publishing partners to secure stock of upcoming releases. "We are …