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The full transcript from the conference call that followed EA’s announcement of its financial results for Q3, 2007 is now available online. The document reveals that the megapublisher believes PS3 takes longer to develop for than Xbox 360, Rock Band is to be released on Wii and that much-anticipated titles …
Read More »Riccitiello ‘investing in quality’
Bullish EA boss talks company overhaul and elusive pursuit of an internally-developed Metacritic hit
Read More »Riccitiello: We need more time to develop for PS3 than 360
EA CEO John Riccitiello has admitted that the company still requires more time to develop software for PS3 than it does Xbox 360. CVG reports that, when asked if PS3’s game development has caught up with the Xbox 360’s, Riccitiello said in a conference call: "Not quite. There’s no doubt …
Read More »EA suffers $33m Q3 loss
Electronic Arts has posted a loss for its third quarter of 2007, blaming restructuring charges and deferred revenue – but has reported record revenue for the Christmas period. The publisher suffered a net loss of $33 million for the period ended December 31st, 2007. That compared with net income of …
Read More »Rock Band moshing on Wii
CVG reports that Electronic Arts has confirmed Rock Band is coming to Nintendo’s Wii. EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed the information during the question-and-answer session of the company’s third-quarter conference call, referring to the coming launch” of a Wii version of the game. Last year, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos said …
Read More »ASIA: EA confirms Warhammer
Electronic Arts has announced it is to launch and operate Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Working closely with developers EA Mythic, GigaMedia will provide marketing, community management, technical support and customer service functions. We are pleased and honoured to become EA’s operating partner on …
Read More »Stringer, Kotick question potential of in-game ads
Sony’s Howard Stringer and Activision’s Bobby Kotick have both said they are unsure whether video games can be fully sustained by in-game advertising. The news comes after EA announced it was to make its new Battlefield game available for free on the internet – and was financially supporting it through …
Read More »EA dissolves partnership with Marvel
Comic publisher clearing way for entry into games market?
Read More »EA Chicago GM lands at Microsoft
Kuno Tsunoda hired as Xbox general manager
Read More »Dead Space to become franchise
Dead Space executive producer Glen Schofield has said that the sci-fi horror title could become a multi-title franchise for EA. I would definitely like to make future Dead Space games,” he said, in an interview with Eurogamer Germany. I’d love for this to become a well established franchise; we’ve created …
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