News

EA’s Disaster Plans Don’t Include Billion-Dollar Lawsuits Or Giant Meteors

A cocktail-napkin calculation about what’s at stake in former NCAA players’ lawsuit against EA Sports arrived at a potential cash-and-prizes value of $US1 billion. But as apocalyptic as that total sounds, Electronic Arts doesn’t sound too worried.


May 7, 2011
Xbox

Report: Next-Gen Xbox Already At EA; EA: That’s ‘Total Fabrication’

Now that Nintendo has revealed its plans to jump into the next-generation with a successor to the Wii, will Microsoft and Sony follow suit? A report earlier today from Develop says that not only is Microsoft working on the next Xbox console, it’s already in the hands of developer Electronic Arts.


September 28, 2010
News

Activision, EA Argue Over Who’s Less Evil

Robert “Bobby” Kotick, Activision CEO and widely reviled video game exec, had unkind things to say about one of his company’s biggest rivals, Electronic Arts, blasting his competitor’s “culture”, its games, and claiming “great people don’t really want to work there”.


March 23, 2010
News

EA: We Will Not Charge For “Traditionally Free Game Demos”

Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that while they’re exploring different downloadable game strategies, they do not plan to charge gamers for “traditionally free game demos”.