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505 Games’ Zumba Fitness has shot up the charts this week just one place behind EA’s Crysis 2 which holds on to No.1. The second top spot for Crysis 2 represents EA’s sixth No.1 of the year following other titles at the top such as FIFA 11 and Dragon Age …
Read More »Madden creator sues EA
EA could be liable for "potentially billions of dollars" after the co-creator of the very first Madden video game announced he is taking the publisher to court. Since its inception the Madden series has sold in excess of 85m copies generating in the region of $4bn in profit. Now Reuters …
Read More »Madden ‘creator’ sues EA
Robin Antonick wants 'tens of millions of dollars' in alleged unpaid royalties
Read More »Ben Cousins departs from Easy Studio
General manager of free-to-play division makes a shock departure from publisher
Read More »Cousins leaves EA’s Easy Studio
Ben Cousins, the man behind EA’s successful forays into the free-to-play games market, has announced his departure from the publisher. In a brief statement issued on Twitter last night Cousins stated: "Battlefield Play4Free launches this week and it’s time for me to leave EA. Very proud of what I’ve achieved …
Read More »EA exec producer quits for Crystal Dynamics
Tomb Raider studio 'building new IP'
Read More »Molyneux hopes for new Syndicate title
Though we’re no closer to knowing whether or not EA’s long-rumoured Syndicate revamp is actually in the works, the series’ original creator has said he’d love to get involved with the mystery project. Speaking to CVG, current Microsoft Game Studios boss and the founder of Syndicate developer Bullfrog Peter Molyneux …
Read More »Trip Hawkins in trouble with the tax man
A San Francisco judge has rejected Trip Hawkins’ plea to use personal bankruptcy to cancel $20m of tax obligations. According to a Forbes blog, US District Court judge Jeffrey S White has upheld an earlier bankruptcy court ruling related to tax shelters Hawkins used to shield the personal wealth he …
Read More »DICE: "Our rivals arent innovating"
EA’s development studio DICE has put its rivals in the firing line again. Last week the developer said its FPS competitors – which include Call of Duty’s Infinity Ward and Treyarch – are getting lazy”. Now it says they are not innovating, but treading water”. The competitors out there are …
Read More »Xbox 360 dominates Crysis 2 sales
As well as shooting straight to the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK All Formats Top 40 this week, new shooter Crysis 2 has also set a new 2011 for EA. The game is officially the publisher’s biggest launch of the year, outpacing the likes of Bulletstorm, Dragon Age …
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