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EA defending developers without the resources to take on the social games giant, claims COO
Read More »Rumour: Moore to replace Riccitiello as EA CEO
COO next in line to take reigns at publisher, claims source
Read More »Microtransactions ‘will be in every game’
More to E3 'anxiety' than console cycle, says Peter Moore
Read More »EA: Battlefield 3 Premium subscription goes live today
EA has ramped up the pressure on Activision with a new Battlefield Premium membership service. The subscription service gives gamers access to all five expansion packs and lets them access it two weeks early before general release. It ties in with the Battlefield Battlelog service, and features extra events, strategy …
Read More »EA to publishers: ‘Adapt to digital or die’
Companies cannot continue to rely on just the old model, says industry veteran Peter Moore
Read More »EA: Battlefield 3 stole market share from Modern Warfare 3
Peter Moore, the high-profile COO of publisher EA, has insisted that its recent release Battlefield 3 successfully captured a slice of Modern Warfare 3’s market share. That’s despite Activision’s game becoming the fastest selling entertainment product of all time. In EA’s favour, however, the game failed to best the week …
Read More »Five million people use Origin each day, EA claims
Milestone reached within five months, according to company executive Peter Moore
Read More »EA’s Origin draws 5m users
More than five million gamers use EA’s online download platform Origin every day, says the publisher’s COO Peter Moore. The former EA Sports boss told Screen Play about the service after being heckled at the EB Games Expo in Australia last weekend by one member of the audience. We’re only …
Read More »Peter Moore keynotes the EB Expo
TheCOO of EA, Peter Moore, has made a personal appearance at Australia’s biggest ever games event EB Expo to deliver a keynote address. His talk spent a considerable amount of time recounting the path games have trodden to get to where they are today, reminiscing about the pre-console FPS days, …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: BBC seeks software engineer, EA promotes Moore and Gibeau
In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, BBC North is hiring a software engineer and Electronic Arts promotes Peter Moore and Frank Gibeau. DEVELOPMENT JOB AVAILABLE AT BBC NORTH BBC North is currently recruiting for a software engineer that wants to develop games and …
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