GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 10, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Electronic Arts is increasing the price for its EA Play subscription service, GamesIndustry.biz understands. The standard EA Play tier will increase from $4.99 / £3.99 per month to $5.99 / £5.99, with the annual fee rising from $29.99 / £19.99

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Game Developer

APRIL 10, 2023

With his Alice: Asylum pitch rejected by Electronic Arts, game designer American McGee is leaving the game industry entirely behind.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2024

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson spoke of how generative AI could make its development process "more efficient" and help give developers "more power."

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of the business it feels will be the most successful in the years to come.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 17, 2024

As revealed on Thursday , 55 companies will be taking part in the two-hour showcase to be held on June 7, 2024, including Xbox and PlayStation, alongside publishers such as Epic Games, Electronic Arts, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, WB Games, and Ubisoft.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Electronic Arts has implemented a round of layoffs at F1 developer Codemasters. IGN reported an unknown number of staff at the British-based studio have been made redundant following "small-scale organisational changes" made by EA. The company was behind the recent releases of F1 23 and EA Sports WRC. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Electronic Arts released its earnings report for Q3 FY24 (the three months ended December 31, 2023), with the firm seeing modest top-line growth but a more considerable jump from the bottom line that was higher than the company's outlook range.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 21, 2024

Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment will also produce, while The Sims publisher Electronic Arts is said to be involved "in a creative and producing capacity." As reported by The Hollywood Reporter , Loki director Kate Herron will helm the project, and will co-write the screenplay with Briony Redman. Read more

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The deal will ensure EA has exclusive rights to the league's electronic game license.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Skybound is actively looking for acquisition targets

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 20, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The UK's Advertising Standards Agency has warned Electronic Arts, Miniclip and Jagex not to violate rules around promoting titles with loot boxes after upholding complaints against three of their titles.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Electronic Arts is set to lay off "a small number of staff" due to its decision to close two of its mobile titles: EA Sports MLB Tap Sports and F1 Mobile Racing.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Disney is reportedly looking to acquire Electronic Arts or a company of a similar scale as a way back into games publishing. As reported by Bloomberg , some Disney executives have allegedly suggested that CEO Bob Iger could transform the company from a gaming licensee to publisher by acquiring EA.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 16, 2024

Guerra joined Bandai Namco in 2009 as marketing and communications director for the France-Benelux region, and previously worked for Electronic Arts as senior international marketing manager from 2004 to 2009. Guerra assumed the role on April 1, 2024, and is based at the company's UK headquarters in Richmond, London. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Electronic Arts has announced the closure of Ridgeline Games, the studio working on a new single-player Battlefield campaign. As reported by IGN , the project is reportedly set to continue with "some" employees from Ridgeline set to join Ripple Effect – another Battlefield studio working on a different experience within the franchise.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

To remedy the situation, we're running an addendum today discussing a subject we couldn't squeeze into last week's column: a lawsuit filed against Electronic Arts by seven former BioWare Edmonton employees who said the severance they were offered fell far short of what they should have received. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Electronic Arts today announced a rebranding for Frostbite, its internal game development engine. It's the first new logo for the tech in nearly a decade.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their third studio, Golf Clash creator Playdemic, opened doors in 2010 and two years ago sold to Electronic Arts for a whopping $1.4 Shortly after, they formed Rockpool Games, made the J2ME edition of Worms, and sold the developer to Eidos/Square Enix in 2007. billion – one of the biggest UK games acquisitions to date. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The biggest winner of the project is Electronic Arts, with three teams accepting awards. The awards are built around the idea of making the games industry a better place to work, and the winners are ultimately decided by an in-depth survey of employees. Just shy of 50 Canadian games companies signed up to take part, with 15 winners in total.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the news cycle had fully absorbed Sony’s announcement that it was letting go of 900 people, Electronic Arts released a similar statement regarding the termination of about 5 percent of its total headcount, approximately 670 jobs. Electronic Arts is doing well, too.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Electronic Arts is already one of the largest publishers in the world, but EA CEO Andrew Wilson believes the company still has the potential for start-up-like growth ahead of it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

Merry worked at Electronic Arts for nearly 15 years as a development director, having overseen development and shipping of titles such as FIFA, Need for Speed, and Battlefield. Merry and Kom have over thirty years of experience in AAA, mobile, and indie game development. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The biggest winner of the project is Electronic Arts, with three teams accepting awards. The awards are all about making the games industry a better place to work, and the winners are ultimately decided by an in-depth survey of employees. Over 50 US companies signed up to take part, with 14 winners in total. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 3, 2024

Every major studio I've worked at generally has their own automated build system. These build systems are not shared between projects at the same publisher. This is because each game has its own file structure, asset list, and scripts that must be processed alongside building the code in order to result in a functioning game build.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is no more. This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2024

The modern era of virtual reality as we know it started around June of 2012, when John Carmack brought the Oculus Rift to the Electronic Entertainment Expo and showed it off to attendees with Doom 3 BFG Edition.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2024

As The Korea Economic Daily reported, this is the highest amount imposed for a company violating the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce in South Korea. Nexon has been fined ₩11.6 million ($8.9

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The job of a programmer is to bring electronics to life — without them you have … Fanatical Day of the Programmer GameDev Book Giveaway Read More The post Fanatical Day of the Programmer GameDev Book Giveaway appeared first on GameFromScratch.com. The Day of the Programmer as described by Fanatical: Hello World.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson says the publisher is seeing 'softness' in Europe when it comes to video games spend. Speaking to investors during the firm's financial call, Wilson says he is seeing overall growth for the market and that games with 'deep engagement' continue to perform strongly.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 2, 2023

Kotaku Australia reports the redundancies are being made as Electronic Arts changes the studio's focus. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA-owned Firemonkeys Studios is reportedly the latest developer to suffer layoffs, with up to two thirds of its team at risk. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 19, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will be compensating any college football players that feature in its future college football games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 8, 2023

Electronic Arts is relaunching its college football series this year, and has promised compensation for any players who allow the publisher to use their names and likenesses in the game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 10, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Electronic Arts says its future lies in developing "games as a platform," building on the success it has seen with live service models for titles such as FIFA, The Sims and Apex Legends.

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Designer Notes

MAY 6, 2024

In this episode, Soren interviews noted game investor Mitch Lasky, best known for his work as a venture capitalist at Benchmark, as the CEO of JAMDAT, and as an executive at Activision and Electronic Arts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 16, 2023

Electronic Arts and Sony have been ordered to pay €10,800 ($11,800) to gamers who bought FIFA Ultimate Team packs in Austria. The order comes from Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Wien, which is a regional court in Vienna. The court ruled that these loot boxes violate gambling laws.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA Music, the division of Electronic Arts that oversees all the music in its games, has partnered with Boston-based Berklee College of Music to offer a new scholarship to a future composer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It was unquestionably time for the event to die – there is a strong argument to be made that the very format of the show itself echoed the industry's roots in consumer electronics rather than its present status as an important media and entertainment industry, for one thing, and advances in video streaming and digital distribution made the cost (..)

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