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Leading publisher EA has confirmed that disappointing sales of its key software titles means it expects both its net revenue and earnings for the current Q4 period to be below numbers previously forecast by the firm. The firm now expects its net revenue for the fiscal year ending January 31st …
Read More »Could EA be a target for Disney?
With its stock plummeting 17 per cent on the back of its poor financial results , The Wall Street Journal is predicting that EA’s falling value could make it a target for acquisition – and it has fingered Disney as a possible suitor. EA is current worth around $7.3 billion …
Read More »Skate 2 coming this January
The sequel to EA’s successful new skateboarding IP Skate is set to be released in January 2009, according to IGN . The site reports: Today we received boxed retail copies of Mirror’s Edge in the office. Our full review of the game is embargoed for a couple weeks, but that …
Read More »Dead Space and Mirrors Edge sequels on the way
Admittedly, it was a given that titles like Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge were going to get sequels, but EA boss John Riccitiello has in an investor call spoken publicly about the projects for the first time – though he has also insisted that EA will not force an annual …
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