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Electronic Arts has named Geraldine Laybourne as the newest member of its Board of Directors. Laybourne is the founder of Oxygen Media – a television network launched in 2000 targeted at younger women – where she served as chairman and chief executive officer until 2007. She also served as president …
Read More »EA announces Need for Speed Live event
US publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it will debut a brand new car show based on its popular Need for Speed franchise next year at UK race circuit Brands Hatch. Need for Speed Live, which will take place on June 26th and 27th next year, is described as a …
Read More »Could EA be a target for Disney?
With its stock plummeting 17 per cent on the back of its poor financial results , The Wall Street Journal is predicting that EA’s falling value could make it a target for acquisition – and it has fingered Disney as a possible suitor. EA is current worth around $7.3 billion …
Read More »Skate 2 coming this January
The sequel to EA’s successful new skateboarding IP Skate is set to be released in January 2009, according to IGN . The site reports: Today we received boxed retail copies of Mirror’s Edge in the office. Our full review of the game is embargoed for a couple weeks, but that …
Read More »Dead Space and Mirrors Edge sequels on the way
Admittedly, it was a given that titles like Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge were going to get sequels, but EA boss John Riccitiello has in an investor call spoken publicly about the projects for the first time – though he has also insisted that EA will not force an annual …
Read More »Cost of Beatles deal was very rich
Though the exact numbers remain unknown, the chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Martin Bandier has told Variety that the deal struck between MTV and Apple Corp for the recently announced Beatles game involved figures previously unheard of in the games industry. Bandier stated: There have been mutterings from …
Read More »EA to axe nearly 600 jobs
'Cost reduction initiative' comes as sales and losses increase for last quarter
Read More »Spielbergs EA team faces the chop
Following the news that EA is to cut six per cent of its global work force , rumours are suggesting that the team working on Steven Spielberg’s ultra-realistic next title has been sacked from EA LA. VG247 claims to have been informed by an EA employee that almost everyone on …
Read More »EA to lay off 6% of work force
Global publishing powerhouse EA has announced that it is to cut six per cent of its global workforce, equivalent to between 500 and 600 positions, following increased losses in the financial quarter ending September 30th. The AP reports that the cuts will span all aspects of the company and will …
Read More »Lord of the Rings: Conquest announced
EA has for the first time officially spoken of its upcoming foray into Tolkien’s ocr-heavy universe, Pandemic’s Lord of the Rings: Conquest. It’s not the first time EA has peered into the realm of Middle Earth, having previously enjoyed great success with it’s two titles based on New Line Cinema’s …
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