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In a major surprise, former EA big cheese and Elevation Partners co-founder John Riccitiello has returned to Electronic Arts as CEO. Riccitiello will serve as the company's CEO from April 2. Larry Probst will continue as executive chairman of the Board of Directors. Riccitiello served pr...
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What's that mean? It means that Apple gamers will finally get some games meant for their system. Starting in July Electronic Arts will be brining Command & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to OS X.
UPDATE] During Electronic Arts’ quarterly conference call, the company confirmed that the hotly anticipated PC game Spore is also coming to the Nintendo DS; EA “all over” Wii and DS with My Sims for both platforms and SimCity for DS.
Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello has been talking freely about The Godfather II. At the William Blair & Company's investor meeting Tuesday, Riccitiello said that EA's Redwood Shores studio is at work on a sequel to The Godfather game, which released in 2006.
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That's the future envisaged by Palo Alto startup OnLive, which plans to launch a groundbreaking gaming service this winter. OnLive will supply players with a small set-top box, not much bigger than a Nintendo DS, which will plug into your TV and your home broadband connection.
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Electronic Arts desperately wants to acquire Take-Two Interactive. It already wanted it before Grand Theft Auto IV was released but now that the game has made $500 million in its first week on sale, and proved once again the value of the franchise, EA are even keener. — — —
Electronic Arts announces Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho as cover stars for EA SPORTS' FIFA 06, due for release this autumn. These partnerships build on the success of EA SPORTS' FIFA, Europe's best selling sports game franchise ever. EA also today announced major enhancements to the gamep...
EA Sports Active the first in a new line of fitness games, the publisher says, coming spring 2009 to a Wii near you. donkeykong57 wrote: This could be the beginning of a whole new video game genre. donkeykong57 wrote: This could be the beginning of a whole new video game genre.
EA Sports Active the first in a new line of fitness games, the publisher says, coming spring 2009 to a Wii near you. donkeykong57 wrote: This could be the beginning of a whole new video game genre. donkeykong57 wrote: This could be the beginning of a whole new video game genre.
John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, has spoken at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas about how some of the acquisitions EA has made haven't turned out well. We at EA blew it, and to a degree I was involved in these things, so I blew it," Riccitiello bluntly.
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Game making giant Electronic Arts has snatched up “super-developer" entity BioWare/Pandemic. BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka stated, “[The acquisition] will enable us to further the careers of the passionate, creative and hard working teams at BioWare Edmonton and BioWare Austin."
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I caught up with Ray Muzyka (left) and Greg Zeschuk, the top executives and founders of BioWare, the well-known role-playing game developer in Edmonton, Canada. Electronic Arts bought their company along with Pandemic Studios for $800 million. That purchase price was double the invest...
Warhammer Online [will be] a strong entry in the MMORPG space," Riccitiello said at the William Blair & Company's investor meeting Tuesday. "No, I don't think it's going to rival WoW, but no one would ever predict that. But it is a strong game that will ... get our returns for us. We're proud of...
The Wii is a challenge for all of us ... partly because of the strength of Nintendo and partly because it's a more casual game experience that most game companies aren't as comfortable building for as they are for the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3," Riccitiello said.
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This morning we brought word of a rumor stating recent addition Electronic Arts had dropped out of E For All. A spokesperson for the event has connected us, stating that Electronic Arts was indeed still attending. So even if the EA announcement was dropped from the E For All blog and even if th...
Yes, EA CEO John Riccitiello finished “BioShock,” used YouTube to finish “Portal” and can’t wait for “Grand Theft Auto IV.” But he was focused on business — and on the negatives he wanted the couple of hundred developers and executives in attendance could learn from.
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BioWare It's all part of a larger shakeup at EA of Redwood City, the world's largest video game publisher. The company in April installed Riccitiello, who then reorganized EA into four labels, EA Sports, EA Games, EA Casual Games Entertainment and The Sims. The company also recently welco...
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The appointment of John Riccitiello as the new CEO of Electronic Arts is a good thing for the publisher, said Lazard Capital Markets in a note to investors today. Soon-to-be-former EA CEO Larry Probst will remain executive chairman of EA’s board of directors.
Washington (dbTechno) - Electronic Arts has given Spore an official release date. The Will Wright game, which has been highly-anticipated for a good three years now, has been named by EA to hit store shelves on September 7, 2008 for the Mac, PC, and Nintendo DS.
Mister X points out that EA’s current CEO, John Riccitiello, was the Bioware/Pandemic CEO until recently, and was responsible for the Bioware/Pandemic merger in the first place. “This is a progression of what we started two years ago with Elevation [Partners],” the equity firm owned by...
This has been rumored for quite a long time, but Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has given us the final word: a Knights of the Old Republic MMO is in development by BioWare. Gee, another MMO. Wes Wes Wes Jordan on Rod Humble Protypes The Sims 3
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Today EA employs about 2,300 in British Columbia and in offices in Montreal and Toronto, while Ubisoft employs about 1,600, making them the two biggest studios in the country, according to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada.
EA seems enthusiastic about its sports franchises, and Riccitiello says he expects EA Sports will help drive the company to an additional $1 billion in revenue and an 100 percent increase in operating income. Riccitiello was optimistic about the company's studio structure in general,...
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John Riccitiello says that Electronic Arts still struggling to compete with Nintendo's first-party Wii line-up of games. He claims that Nintendo is responsible for two-thirds of Wii software sales. Electronic Arts/Take-Two: We Were Just Trying to Help [WSJ]
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EA Partners, the company's division for distribution of games from independent developers, posted strong results earlier today. In the conference call, CEO John Riccitiello singled out several EA Partners titles as contributing factors. "Rock Band, Orange Box, and Crysis all exceed...
In the console war, Nintendo was No. 1 with Wii sales of 453,000, down from 608,400 in July. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 overtook Sony at No. 2 with 195,200, down from 204,800. And Sony brought up the rear with 185,400 PlayStation 3s sold, compared with 224,900 in July. The Nintendo DS sold 518,300 unit...
Stating that it's good for senior executives to invest in their own companies, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello just picked up almost $US 1 million worth of EA's own common stock, a company spokesperson said today. huginn: Riccitiello really wants to make some money eh?