john riccitiello
In Real Life

Wii-Owning President Obama Doesn’t Care If The Xbox Version Is Better

Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred.

August 19, 2011
News

Call Of Duty Makers Say Competitor’s Anti-Call Of Duty Talk Harms The Gaming Industry

EA CEO John Riccitiello, head of the company making this year’s premiere Call of Duty competitor, Battlefield 3, recently said he hopes that he hopes Call of Duty would “rot from the core”.

August 6, 2011
News

Mixed Messages In Battlefield’s Chain Of Command

One day before Electronic Arts’ reorganisation, Patrick Bach, the DICE executive producer of Battlefield 3 said an annual publishing schedule “will eventually kill the franchise“. A day later, EA’s top general had a somewhat different tone.

News

Minecraft Developer Gives Off A Not-For-Sale-To-EA Vibe

In a recent interview with Develop, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson discusses EA CEO John Riccitiello’s visit to the Stockholm headquarters of Mojang, saying that any acquisition hopes Riccitiello might have had were quashed by the independent studio’s vibe.

August 5, 2011
News

Peter Moore Takes Over As EA’s COO In Company Reorganisation

Peter Moore, president of EA Sports for the past four years, has been promoted to Electronic Arts’ chief operating officer in a company-wide reorganisation, John Riccitiello, the EA chief executive, said today.

July 13, 2011
PC

EA Deal Will Help Popcap Grow Its Business

Kotaku AU

As is typical when an company like Popcap gets picked up by a company EA, there is some speculation as to how this will affect the identity of the smaller company. John Riccitiello, however, believes EA’s acquisition of Popcap is a great chance for Popcap to grow its business.

May 5, 2011
News

Riccitiello: EA “Announcing A Big Shift To Offence”

Kotaku AU

EA’s CEO John Riccitiello, speaking at a recent earnings call, has claimed that EA is now in the process of going from defence – cutting costs and consolidating – to offence. Which could spell big things for EA in the coming years, as they prepare for a rapid increase in digital development and distribution.

April 18, 2011
Mobile

BulleTrain’s Open Letter To EA Still Leaves Many Missing The Memo

About a year and a half ago, Pandemic Studios – you may remember them for Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries and Star Wars: Battlefront – was shuttered by Electronic Arts, which bought the studio in 2007. Four developers who were pink-slipped formed Downsized Games, and BulleTrain, released late last year for iOS devices and updated recently, is their first project, and an ode to their predicament.

April 7, 2011
News

Hope You Like Ads, Because Battlefield 3 Will Shovel Lots At You

This may have been a prediction. It sure as hell sounds like a threat. This year, Activision and Electronic Arts will both spend more on the marketing for two games than many publishers will ever spend on developing one, said Electronic Arts’ CEO. As he was speaking to a conference of advertisers, it was surely music to their ears.

January 13, 2011
News

EA CEO: Discs Are Here To Stay (For Now)

Kotaku AU

Come on Mr Riccitiello! Make up your mind! On Monday we reported your claim that digital would be “bigger than the packaged goods business” in 2011 – now you’re trying to tell us that game discs are here to stay? Do you have some sort of Twilight Zone split personality or something?

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