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What The Next PlayStation And Xbox Need To Get Right

Skittles or Steak? I hate to admit it, but I like both. For me, it is not a choice. Nothing quite works like a steak for dinner. But, when I go to the movies, and I want to indulge, it’s Skittles for me. It is a bit embarrassing to admit. For me, it’s Skittles and Steak. I like both. You must be wondering what this has to do with games. Or why Kotaku would run my piece on candy and beef. This will take a minute, but let me explain.


What John Riccitiello Was Right About

If you gave me five, seven or even 10 guesses about who outgoing EA CEO’s favourite character on acclaimed TV show The Wire was, I’d have gotten it wrong. The Wire ran for five seasons. It was a show about class and crime. Its cast was an ensemble of cops, crooks and the everyday working people just trying to get by. Many viewers were drawn to the drug dealers, particularly the complex captains of the trade.


The Best John Riccitiello Jokes Twitter Has To Offer

EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has stepped down, so, of course, the fact that he’s got a difficult-to-spell name, combined with the general level of dislike EA has earned in the wake of SimCity‘s disastrous launch, means that jokers the world over have been quick to hop on the joke train and joke it up with their jokes.


EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down [Updated]

John Riccitiello, CEO of game publisher Electronic Arts, is stepping down from his position. Former EA CEO and board chairman Larry Probst will take over while the board searches for a new replacement, EA said.


How Long Will EA’s CEO Sit On The Hot Seat In 2013?

The company’s share price dropped by a third in the past year and expensive incursions into mobile and social games development haven’t yet panned out. Adding insult to injury, Electronic Arts was booted out of the NASDAQ-100 index for poor performance. Figure in the continuing decline of video game sales on traditional platforms and John Riccitiello, EA’s CEO, could find himself sitting at the wrong end of a long conference table.


EA’s CEO John Riccitiello Calls For A Global Classification System

It’s a discussion that cuts to the core of what the Australian Law Reform Commission is having to deal with right now: how do we classify content in a world where the definition of content, and platforms, is becoming increasingly blurry. EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has claimed that we need something broader and more universal, in order to better inform consumers of the kind of content they can expect when purchasing video games. John Riccitiello wants a global system, across countries, across platforms.


EA: Social Games Aren’t Dying, But Consumers ‘Won’t Pay For Crap’

With player numbers dropping and the recent revelation that 85 per cent stop playing after the first day, a shadow hangs over the once ridiculously profitable social gaming scene. Speaking today at App Conference in San Jose, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said that the decline of social gaming is overplayed; it’s not dying, it’s evolving.


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.


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”.


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.


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