5 posts and columns on Electronics Arts

EA CEO: Fastest Growing Game Platform Didn’t Exist 18 Months Ago

in News on July 28, 2011 at 12:51 pm PT

The small-screen game war has grown into an industrywide battle, one in which Apple is doing quite well.
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Videogame Industry in Massively Multiplayer Sales Decline

in News on September 11, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

The videogame industry may be recession-resistant, but it is clearly not recession-proof, as some once claimed. If it was, surely we wouldn’t be seeing the sixth consecutive month of declining sales reported by NPD. According to the market research firm, overall sales in the United States in August of hardware, software and game accessories were $909 million–a 16 percent drop from the same period a year ago.
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EA Announces "The Sims: Will Wright" Expansion Pack

in News on April 8, 2009 at 1:24 pm PT

Celebrated game designer Will Wright has a new job: doing whatever he damn well pleases. He’s leaving Electronic Arts, the game publisher for which he developed Spore and the wildly successful Sim City and The Sims franchises, to run Stupid Fun Club, an entertainment think tank developing ideas for everything from toys to TV.
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EA Announces “The Sims: Will Wright” Expansion Pack

in News on April 8, 2009 at 1:24 pm PT

Celebrated game designer Will Wright has a new job: doing whatever he damn well pleases. He’s leaving Electronic Arts, the game publisher for which he developed Spore and the wildly successful Sim City and The Sims franchises, to run Stupid Fun Club, an entertainment think tank developing ideas for everything from toys to TV.
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The Entire D6 Interview With Activision's Bobby Kotick (2 of 3)

in News on September 16, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s an interview I did with Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick about the state of the gaming business. It’s a good week to focus on the gaming industry since Electronic Arts abandoned its hostile acquisition bid for Take-Two Interactive over the weekend. The move was–in part–in answer to Activision’s recent merger with Vivendi Games, which includes Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, one the most popular multi-player games. This has made Activision one of the gaming industry’s largest companies, due to some of its well-known franchises, especially its hugely popular Guitar Hero, which debuted version IV at D6.