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Electronic Arts announced Wednesday that it will cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and ending work on some video games, CNBC reported. EA employed 13,400 workers as of the end of March 2023, according to its most recent annual filing with the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission in May. That means the
Electronic Arts (EA) announced an agreement to acquire Respawn Entertainment, a leading independent game development studio and creators of AAA shooter and action games including critically-acclaimed Titanfall franchise. EA states that Respawn brings to EA the proven leadership and studio talent behind Titanfall and Titanfall 2, two of the most highly-rated shooter titles in the last five years. The acquisition
In a blog post titled “An Update on the Visceral Star Wars Project”, EA announced that their Visceral studio will close. This change, obviously, has an impact on the Star Wars game that the studio was working on. Our Visceral studio has been developing an action-adventure title set in the Star Wars universe. In its current form, it was shaping
Electronic Arts (EA) is offering video game players the ability to play some of EA's games, for free, between now and June 18, 2017. They are doing this in response to the support for Play to Give, which focuses on the importance of inclusion (and raises money for charities). EA explains it this way: All of you – our many millions of
EA has announced that The Sims Mobile is coming soon. It will be available on the Google Play Store and the App Store eventually. As of the time I am writing this blog, The Sims Mobile is only available in Brazil. If you want to be among the first to know when The Sims Mobile will be released, you can give EA your email
It looks like EA may have learned something from the SimCity fiasco! One of the many problems with the launch of SimCity was that players were having difficulty being able to access the game. This was, to make a long story short, due to problems that EA was slow to resolve regarding their servers. Many have said that things would
Just when you think you've heard the last bit of bad news from Electronic Arts (EA), more is revealed. On March 18, 2013, CEO John Riccitello resigned from the company. His position was temporarily taken over by Chairman Larry Probst, who was a previous EA chief executive. Riccitello's resignation was probably not a huge surprise to many. EA has had