Electronic Arts (Page 51)

Following a confident appraisal of Electronic Arts' performance by Bear Stearns, which raised its guidance rating from "peer perform" to "outperform", the company's share price rose 3.64 per cent, closing yesterday at USD 47.23.

Giving gamers tools with which to create their own content is one of the most important aspects of developing games today.

Electronic Arts and Marvel Entertainment have terminated an agreement to create titles based on the comic giant's intellectual property.

Author and commentator Cooper Lawrence has apologised for criticising the sexual content of EA's Xbox 360 game Mass Effect

Former Electronic Arts executive Kudo Tsunoda has left the company to join Microsoft

Electronic Arts has written a letter to Fox News Channel asking the media company to correct inaccuracies that appeared during a recent segment on Bioware's Mass Effect game

Electronic Arts has stepped into the ad-supported games market by offering a brand new Battlefield game free to consumers.

The Writer's Guild of America, currently locked in a strike against Hollywood movie and television studios, has announced the nominees for its first-ever videogame writing award

Electronic Arts has at least one reason to be cheerful heading into 2008, with the news that the best-selling game of 2007 was FIFA 08.

Electronic Arts' acquisition of VG Holding Corporation has now been completed, meaning that highly-rated studios BioWare and Pandemic have now officially become part of the EA set-up.

Electronic Arts licensing agreement with Hasbro may now include Cranium games, according to a Wachovia Capital Markets analyst

Electronic Arts has officially confirmed a spin-off of its popular Command & Conquer franchise, Tiberium, for Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3.

Bookmaker Paddy Power has announced that it has seen a record amount of money wagered on the outcome of this year's Christmas number one videogame.

Electronic Arts will be discussing its collaboration with movie director Steven Spielberg on the forthcoming Wii title Boom Blox, at next year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Pan Vision has picked up the distribution rights for EA's entire portfolio in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, beginning January 1 2008.

EA Partners' Nick Button-Brown has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that he believes European developers are more creative than US studios that are focused on making money rather than taking chances.

Following the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, Electronic Arts has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that there is always a possibility of further acquisitions by the publishing giant.

The value of both Activision and Vivendi's stock increased during the first day of trading following the announcement of a merger between the two companies

EA's Need for Speed ProStreet is on top of the German charts according to sales data released by Media-Control GfK International

EA CEO John Riccitiello thinks that in-game advertising revenue forecasts are wildly optimistic

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello believes that there will be less consolidation in the videogame market as the majority of viable businesses have already been acquired.

Electronic Arts has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that it regrets a promotion for its latest Need for Speed game which used Page 3 porn models for a topless photo shoot.

With the recent release of Rock Band, MTV Games executives are touting the title as the integration of music and gaming on a whole new level

Electronic Arts has announced a partnership with GigaMedia Ltd to launch and operate NBA Street Online in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau in Q1 2008.

Guitar Hero III is apparently having a positive effect on digital music sales, as players of the game buy the music tracks they rock to in-game.