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Electronic Arts has revealed that it has completed 92 per cent of the redundancies it has planned for this fiscal year. The firm announced last night that it had laid off 158 staff in the three months to June 30th. The redundancies were part of a cost-saving restructure put in …

Revenues drop from $804m to $664m, losses climb to $234m

Report suggests EA is working beyond the upcoming Wii edition of Dead Space

The hotly-tipped APB by Scottish developer Realtime Worlds will arrive at retail in March, MCV can reveal. MCV understands that EA Partners is distributing and marketing the PC and Xbox 360 game, which has been branded by some commentators as the natural successor to GTA. However, insiders have scotched industry …

Many ex-Bullfrog staff remain at EA Bright Light, says studio head

8lb Gorilla wants to develop small, niche and cheap titles for Appleâ??s game platform

Pleasants vacates COO role for Schappert to fill, MySpace group Playdom delighted

Global Xbox Live boss John Schappert will leave Microsoft on July 14th for Electronic Arts – two years after quitting the Redwood giant for the platform holder. Schappert will become COO at EA, replacing John Pleasants, who vacates the publisher. Schappert will be responsible for Worldwide Publishing, the Online Platform …

Company COO John Pleasants foresees the internet's influence in the rapidly shifting games business

EA confirms Swedish dev DICE is working on the sequel, implies a possible departure from the original