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Owlchemy Labs, EA and Nukebox Studios to present talks to the NGDC 2017 with Unity on board as a partner
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EA’s Andrew Wilson joins Intel board of directors
EA CEO elected to the board to bring 'creativity and business acumen' and strengthen position of Intel
Read More »EA’s pursuit of happiness
As always, Q4 will be a blockbuster season for EA. Kicking off this year’s festivities this Friday is FIFA 18, which will then be followed by Need for Speed Payback on November 10th and Star Wars: Battlefront II a week later on November 17th. However, even though these triple-A physical …
Read More »Battlefield 1’s incursions mode could be a strong esports effort, but it’s not there yet
EA has courted the esports crowd for a long time, with squad modes like Deathmatch, Rush and Obliteration offering a smaller scale vision of Battlefield’s 64 man squabbles more suited to competition. Problem is, they’ve never really gained traction. Battlefield is a game about big fights: planes screaming overhead, tanks …
Read More »FIFA 17 tops monthly UK console digital charts again
Another month, another No.1 for FIFA 17. Once again, EA’s football behemoth has topped the monthly console digital charts in the UK, generating 6.92m in revenue in July. Sales for the title were down 16 per cent month-on-month though, as other titles in the Top Ten grew. Rockstar’s Grand Theft …
Read More »EA: Player happiness, not revenue, is our number one metric of success
Just as EA has announced Battlefield 1’s new competitive mode, Incursions, EVP of global publishing Laura Miele has told MCV that the publisher’s continued focus on live services has “shifted the entire company.” She said: “There is an obligation that we have to players to keep content fresh and keep the …
Read More »EA’s digital net sales hit record high for Q1
EA has announced its Q1 2018 results for the three months ending June 30th 2017, and digital net sales reached $3.147bn for the trailing 12-month period, representing 63 per cent of the company’s total net sales. That’s an increase of 23 per cent year-on-year. For the quarter, total net revenue …
Read More »EA to merge Motive Studios and Bioware Montreal
IGN reports that the two studios based in Montreal, Canada will combine following poor reception to Mass Effect: Andromeda
Read More »EA dismisses Mass Effect DLC cancellation rumours
Developer BioWare has been forced to dismiss rumours of a cancellation of Mass Effect: Andromeda’s DLC. A Facebook post by what was claimed to be an Austrian company called Sinclair Networks alleged that BioWare had yanked it off development duties and cancelled all DLC plans for the game. This news …
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront II is crowned YouTube’s E3 champ
EA has staged a double coup by claiming both the single most watched trailer and overall most popular game on YouTube throughout E3 2017. The video service says that the official gameplay trailer for Star Wars Battlefront II was the most viewed trailer to emerge from the show. The EA …
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