GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 31, 2023

EA group general Manager Samantha Ryan has left the company. Ryan led the EA studios that were not making sports, racing or shooting games. EA told Venturebeat that Ryan has left the business to 'change things up'. EA told Venturebeat that Ryan has left the business to 'change things up'. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Electronic Arts is already one of the largest publishers in the world, but EA CEO Andrew Wilson believes the company still has the potential for start-up-like growth ahead of it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Back in 1993, EA's European office had obtained the FIFA license. The group had managed, eventually, to persuade their parent company to let them make a football game. EA was a US-centric business at the time and football had collapsed in the country, so the publisher was hesistant.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 2, 2023

Electronic Arts is taking its first step into blockchain gaming, as the company announced a partnership with Nike Virtual Studios that will see "virtual creations" (NFTs) from the shoe maker's.Swoosh blockchain business featured in EA Sports games. "In

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Looking back on the 10 Years Ago This Month columns covering 2013 , there's a recurring theme of companies attempting significant power grabs and hilariously falling flat on their face in the process.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 20, 2023

Electronic Arts is shaking up its org chart, as CEO Andrew Wilson today announced a realignment of the company into two organizations – EA Sports and EA Entertainment – that would report to him.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 10, 2023

EA will close the servers of some of its older titles by the end of the year. Three more games have been added to the company's Online Services Shutdown list, including Crysis 3, Dante's Inferno, and Dead Space 2, as spotted by PureXbox. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA released its fourth quarter and 2022 fiscal year earnings report today, with full-year revenues up 6% to reach a total of $7.4 Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 29, 2023

EA's last annual report said it employed 12,900 people globally as of the end of March 2022, when a 6% cut would have put the total number of layoffs around 775.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

John Riccitiello's retirement from the company – effective immediately, no less – is indeed a vanishingly rare thing in the games business, where blame for failure and poor judgement all too often trickles down the org chart and leaves top management unscathed.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

EA Sports FC 24 – Electronic Arts Layoffs have become a systemic practice in the games industry with precious few exceptions, and it’s time we accept it as an economic reality. And even then EA and Take-Two’s performance pales in comparison to an all-digital newcomer like Roblox, which earned $1.2 million per employee in 2023.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

EA Sports has dominated the football game genre for the past 30 years. The official name of the next EA Sports football game is EA Sports FC 24. The official name of the next EA Sports football game is EA Sports FC 24. Officially, the FIFA series has been discontinued, and the successor is the EA Sports FC series.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 7, 2023

According to IGN , parent company EA is close to signing a deal with Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot developer BroadSword, with the studio expected to handle Star Wars: The Old Republic's development and operation. The deal is due to close this month, IGN said, with EA reportedly having already signed a letter of intent.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 3, 2023

Representatives Lori Trahan told Axios that of the 14 companies who responded to her questionnaire – which include Microsoft, Sony, Tencent, Epic Games, EA and Activision – only five detailed what they're doing to assess and tackle extremism in their games. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ben Penrose has joined the company as Art Director from Sharkmob (but was also a former Playground employee), and Elly Marshall has been named UX/UI Director, following her role as experience design director at EA. Running the studio itself is COO Harinder Sangha.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

Gearbox Entertainment has announced its acquisition of 3D capture company Captured Dimensions. The firm has worked with entertainment companies such as Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, 2K Games, and EA. Captured Dimensions' services include 3D printing, prop scanning and cross-polarized texture photography. Read more.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Real-Life Impact of Security Attacks on Gaming Security attacks in the gaming world have had a significant impact, and even the big gaming companies aren’t safe from that line of fire. In response, EA admitted that a data breach occurred, which led to the stealing of a few SDKs, source codes, and game frameworks.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So… for a moment, let’s put aside the fact that the purpose of a publicly traded company like most AAA game publishers (Nintendo, Ubisoft, Take Two, EA, Activision, Sony, Microsoft, etc.) is to earn money for its shareholders.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EA announced that it was canceling Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile. TWiG 218 - Everdale's Metacore Move / Death of E3 / EA Abandons Mobile Shooters ✉️ Received this email from a friend? Even if the game wasn’t hitting the financial and franchise expectations, EA Mobile has no leeway to be picky. SAVE THE DATE!

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He said all the right things about what a great company Electronic Arts was. Even in those days, EA’s days of being beloved by gamers was long gone.) At EA, he eventually became CEO, though he departed under a cloud after a run of misses. His interest was in opportunity, growth and, of course, money.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 24, 2023

In March of this year, EA declared that they were going to cut roughly 6% of their workforce (~800 layoffs) to lower costs, likely because they (like many tech companies) over-hired during the pandemic and need to correct the burn rate to appease their shareholders. Bioware is basically following the publisher mandate.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Following good values and trends are essential for any mobile game development company. Hashbyte Studio is a leading mobile game development company that focuses on providing high-quality games to our audience. Hashbyte Studio For Passion and Transparency Hashbyte Studio is a prominent mobile game development company.

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Designer Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They discuss why HyperCard was so great, why AI development is game design, and how Steven Spielberg almost made Angry Birds for EA. Offworld Trading Company , XCOM , Tomb Raider , Prince of Persia , Half-Life , Spore , Katamari Damacy , The Sims 2 , MySims , Boom Blox , Nintendo Land. This episode was recorded December 1, 2021.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. Apple, Google, Netflix, Nintendo, Playstation, GamePass, EA Play? Zero interest rates meant companies didn't need to turn a profit. It's a hard thing to write about.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A lot of tech companies are laying off workers after investing big early in the pandemic and expecting things to remain that way. Business gonna business. If the revenues coming in can’t support the costs going out, they’re going to have to either raise revenues or cut costs. Cutting costs means cancelling projects and laying off workers.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If it's anything like [ the last strike ] in 2016, it will likely follow the same procedure. If the union chooses to strike, any games that started development before a certain cutoff date would continue unaffected. Any games that start development after that cutoff date will be struck until an agreement is reached.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Supercell CEO’s annual blog post is a personal, inspirational, and sincere communication method from the top brass of a major mobile games company. Similar messages from a CEOs of a public company would immediately get dissected by stock market analysts, determining what’s PR fluff and what’s the actual beef.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Steam Epic Games Launcher Origin Microsoft Xbox App Battle.net EA Desktop GOG Galaxy Ubisoft Connect 1. Since October 2022 , Origin has redirected Windows users to the EA Desktop app. EA Desktop Electronic Arts has been around for more than four decades as a company. Steam Time needed: 3 minutes.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In any software company like Unity, the vast vast majority of costs comes from employee salaries. If they had managed to keep costs at double their spending in 2019, they still would have earned $243 million in profit. Instead, they lost $882 million in 2022. Where does all of this cost come from?

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Embracer, much like all the other tech companies, was riding high on the early pandemic rush. If the money coming in from sales isn't enough to offset the money going out to pay the workers, the company's days are numbered unless they do something to either increase income or decrease expenses.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And speakers from leading companies such as Electronic Arts and Square Enix will share some of their experiences with the latest graphics technologies.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, balancing his fifth year as a Computer Engineering student and a pivotal role at Avalon, an American-based software company was no small feat. In fact, it took tact and at some point, he even convinced his university and successfully interned in his own company.

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Founded in 2008 , Moonmana is a European game development company and Art production studio that works hand-in-hand with Forbes TOP 13 List of the most valuable video game companies. . The key to the company’s success is the presence of talented and experienced professionals worldwide.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

in market capitalization, Amazon is the most valuable company in the world. Further, the company has arguably the highest defensive barriers to its business than any other company in the world. However, when we look at gaming companies, we don’t see the same level of defensibility that we see for companies in other industries.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 13, 2023

Broadsword was founded by Mythic Entertainment co-founder Rob Denton and secured contracts with EA to handle two of their legacy online games - Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online. Picking up a third EA legacy online service game like SWTOR makes a lot of sense.

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Game Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Mattrick was also a leading exec at EA, followed by stints as boss of Microsoft’s gaming division, and of Zynga. Off the back of a $2 million seed fund, the company launched a series of successful collectible RPGs for mobile, including MiniMonsters, Cat Game, and Dog Game. Mino was founded back in 2011.

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Game Design Aspect

MARCH 30, 2021

Join successful game writers as they talk about pitching and writing choice-based narratives, how the writers' room in a game company differs from television series or films, and the various ways writers are utilized in the game development process.

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