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EA Blames Post-Release Policies For Crysis 2′s Disappearance From Steam

10:30AM July 7, 2011 | Owen Good

Electronic Arts has followed its claim that Steam “expelled” the EA-published Crysis 2 with an explanation that some EA games will not be available over Steam, the leading PC download service, because of a dispute over how they are patched and updated. This comes, of course, a month after EA opened Origin, its own digital download service. More »

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EA Predicted Poor Reviews For APB

9:20AM August 20, 2010 | Owen Good

Electronic Arts provided distribution support for APB, whose bankrupt studio is being sold off; today a senior EA executive said the game’s poor reviews were somewhat predicted internally and suggested to Realtime Worlds. More »

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EA Is Coming For Your Developers, Japan

11:00AM September 4, 2008 | Michael McWhertor

Lock up your developers, Japanese publishers. Your daughters are fine, but EA is about to come knockin’, snatching away your best local talent for its EA Partners program. The mega-publisher announced last month that it had signed Grasshopper Manufacture by way of Q Entertainment for an upcoming horror game, adding the developer to a stable that includes Valve, id Software, Epic Games and People Can Fly.

According to an MTV Multiplayer discussion with EA Partners group general manager David DeMartini, Suda51 and Shinji Mikami aren’t the only Japanese talent the pub has its eye on.

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