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Last Friday (February 22nd), MCV published a Peter Moore exclusive under the headline ‘No Moore Mr Nice Guy’. Frankly, we were pretty excited to be one of the first to get an in-depth Peter Moore interview in his role as president of EA Sports. We conducted a full interview with …
Read More »Take Two value leaps 47%
Take Two’s pre-market stock valuation enjoyed a huge 46.9 per cent increase this morning, following news of EA’s bid for the firm . Shares of Take Two rose to $25.50, up from Friday’s Nasdaq close of $17.36. MCV broke the news of EA’s bid yesterday, which totalled $1.9 billion. Optimism …
Read More »EA launches Take 2 acquisition website
As part of its freshly announced intentions to snap up Rockstar (and thus Grand Theft Auto) owner Take 2, EA has launched a new website dedicated exclusively to the news. The main text of the open letter from EA CEO John Riccitillo can be found here. Elsewhere on the site, …
Read More »EA offers to buy Take Two for $2bn
Electronic Arts has made public an offer to acquire rival publisher Take Two for around $2bn, revealing that the two have been in talks to merge, although the GTA publisher has so far spurned EA’s advances. The all cash merger has been proposed by EA CEO John Riccitiello at $26 …
Read More »Riccitiello to Zelnick – that letter in full
Following on from the news that EA would like to buy Take Two, we’re publishing in full the letter from Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello to Take Two exec chairman Strauss Zelnick outlining why the merger would be beneficial to all: February 19, 2008 Mr. Strauss ZelnickExecutive Chairman of the …
Read More »Riccitiello: EAs review scores are unacceptable
In a recent meeting with Wall Street analysts, EA boss John Riccitiello has stated that the company’s dropping average review score is the most important problem facing the firm. Reuters reports much of Ricitiello’s presentation concerned review aggregation site Metacritic, whose average score for EA’s software in 2007 fell from …
Read More »EA resurrects classic franchise
EA Partners has teamed up with The Darkness developers Starbreeze Studios to reinvent one of the publisher’s classic franchises. The title, with the internal code name Project RedLime, is being developed for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. EA Partners is thrilled to hand over the keys to one of EA’s …
Read More »‘Centralising tools and creative management doesn’t work’ – Riccitiello
More talk from EA CEO on how publisher is changing its approach to development
Read More »EA partners with sports media giant
EA has announced a multi-year strategic partnership that joins EA Sports with IMG, the sports, entertainment and media enterprise. Under the agreement, IMG will work with EA Sports to market its brand, which could result in sports camps, gaming lounges, publishing products and performance apparel. This is an exciting step …
Read More »EA unveils Red Alert 3
EA has announced Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 The game is to be developed by EA Los Angeles who promise a fully co-operative campaign, and light-hearted action-orientated gameplay. It’s been too long.” said Chris Corry, executive producer at EALA. Fans have been …
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