Entries in 'john riccitiello' (49)
Riccitiello: "Other retailers will absorb the business" if GAME goes
He carefully avoided naming it, but EA's CEO last week said it's "all but a certainty" GAME has two terrible weeks ahead. But he thinks other retailers will pick up ...
EA CEO wants COD to "rot from the core"
EA boss John Riccitiello wants Call of Duty to “rot from the core”.
Riccitiello: Elite coming too early
John Riccitiello believes Activision is "leading with its chin" when it comes to launching Elite.
Riccitiello: BF3 footage "got Kotick’s goat"
John Riccitiello is confident his company has “got Kotick’s goat” with Battlefield 3.
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NINTENDO: EA backs Wii U
Electronic Arts is on board to develop games for the newly announced Wii U console.
EA CEO: Buying Harmonix is 'catching a falling knife'
The boss of Electronic Arts has popped inflated rumours that the firm wants to buy for-sale developer Harmonix.
EA profits in Q4
EA has posted Q4 net revenues of $979 million, up $119 million from 2009's Q4 tally of $860 million. Profits came in at $30 million, compared with a net loss ...
EA cuts financial projections
Electronic Arts this evening announced it is down-grading projections for both full year revenues and trading during the Christmas season.
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Star Wars Old Republic set for Spring 2011?
Comments made by EA's CEO in this evening's investors conference call suggests Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released in Spring 2011.
Riccitiello: Bad press affecting EA stock
Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello has claimed negative press contributed to recent slumps in the publisher’s stock.
Riccitiello ready to trim publishing teams
EA boss John Riccitiello has admitted that the firm’s plan to cut its new boxed product release slate will mean fewer employees are necessary in its publishing offices.
EA slashes release slate in half
Electronic Arts' ruthless culling of dead wood – if not Dead Space – will hit a new high next year: Its FY2011 (Apr 1st 2010 – Mar 31st 2011) line-up ...
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Riccitiello calls for download data
EA boss John Riccitiello has said that the time has come for analysts and data providers to reveal market download numbers to publishers.
Fewer games, higher prices this Xmas
The ghost of unprofitable Christmas past will hit consumers this Q4 – as retailers keep software prices high and publishers shunt more triple-A titles than ever to next year.
EA: Godfather 2 delayed
Electronic Arts has revealed that its Godfather 2 release will be delayed until its fiscal year 2010.
EA allows Take Two bid to expire
EA will allow its latest offer for Take Two to expire tonight after Electronic Arts accepted Take Two’s offer of a management presentation to its suitor containing non-public information.Advertisement
Riccitiello: We have the ‘winning formula’
EA CEO John Riccitiello has admitted that he doesn’t like some of Activision Blizzard’s business practices – and stated that, when it comes to the right business model, his company ...
We should have bet on Wii, admits Riccitiello
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has admitted that the company put too much focus on PS3 and 360 at the beginning of the current console cycle – and largely ignored ...
Riccitiello: ‘I hated E3 2008’
EA CEO John Riccitiello has slammed the format of this year’s E3, stating that he “hated” last week’s show.
EA saga costs Take Two $5m
Take Two's battle to wriggle out of being acquired by EA has been a costly process, according to its Q2 fiscal announcement.
Riccitiello snaps up $1m of EA stock
CEO of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello purchased almost $1 million of the company’s stock on Tuesday – a day after the firm announced it had extended its bid for Take ...
Take Two: ‘Give It up, EA’
Take Two’s Board has once again taken the opportunity to tell the world that EA’s $25.74-per-share tender offer ‘undervalues’ the company – and revealed that it is already talking to ...
EA extends Take Two offer
As predicted this morning, Electronic Arts has extended the deadline of its tender offer for Take Two.
Wall Street Journal: EA to extend Take Two deadline
Electronic Arts is expected to extend again the deadline for its hostile tender offer to acquire Take-Two, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning.
EA/Take Two deadline passes
Shareholders in Take Two have let EA’s deadline for its $2 billion acquisition offer pass by without response.
