Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (EA) is an American game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. They are the second biggest game company after Activision Blizzard and are best known for developing and publishing a plethora of hit game series including FIFA, Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront, Need For Speed, The Sims, Mass Effect and more.
Electronic Arts News
The Sims movie is in the works at Margot Robbie’s production company
Loki director Kate Herron is also on board for the adaptation
Former PlayStation production boss Connie Booth has joined EA
The Sony veteran has been appointed as group general manager of EA’s action RPG portfolio
Apex Legends studio Respawn hit with layoffs as part of wider EA cuts
The job losses follow the recent cancellation of a Star Wars FPS
The new game from Titanfall’s director is reportedly set in the same universe
It’s claimed the project, which isn’t Titanfall 3, is still in the prototyping phase
Electronic Arts is laying off 5% of its workforce
It plans to focus more heavily on “owned IP, sports, and massive online communities”
Asked about Switch 2, EA says new platforms ‘are typically good for us’
More powerful hardware “has typically been very good for our business”
EA has made a round of layoffs at F1 developer Codemasters
The UK studio’s recent releases have reportedly struggled commercially
A new EA patent lets players apply their own voice to game characters
Players can provide sample speech which is used to create character voices
EA’s CEO believes it will benefit from Microsoft’s Activision deal
Andrew Wilson had previously said he was "indifferent" to the acquisition
EA Sports FC 24 ‘had over 14.5m active accounts’ in its first four weeks
Electronic Arts hails "successful" launch for its new football brand