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Electronic Arts Reverses Decision, Develops New Wii U Games
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 9:07am | 529Read More...Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) CFO Blake Jorgensen has confirmed that, contrary to the previous comments from company spokesperson Jeff Brown (and a barrage of negative tweets from an EA engineer), the company is developing games for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) console. According to IGN, Jorgensen made...
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Will Disney and 'Star Wars' Save Electronic Arts?
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 12:17pm | 648Read More...Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) has become one of the most troubled companies within the game industry. From the always-on debacle that followed SimCity to the closure of two studios and hundreds of layoffs, EA is slowly losing its position as a game publishing stalwart. In fact, EA won The...
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Will Windows 8 Prevent Electronic Arts from Going Bankrupt?
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 2:18pm | 427Read More...Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) is turning to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) at a time when the game maker is faced with declining sales and a plummeting stock price. Can Microsoft help EA turn the tide? Or is it too little, too late for the publisher of Battlefield and Madden NFL? According to Bloomberg,...
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Amazon Game Studios Will Ensure the Death of Zynga
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 11:28am | 684Read More...Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), the perpetually imperiled social game developer, received a new and unexpected competitor this week when Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it is getting into game design. The company's first title (developed by the online retailer's new game division, Amazon Game Studios)...
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Did Electronic Arts Just Cancel Star Wars: The Old Republic?
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 1:49pm | 704Read More...Electronic Arts (NYSE: EA) will soon allow consumers to play Star Wars: The Old Republic for free. Is this the beginning of the end for EA's flagship MMORPG? Fans of the game may argue that Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) pulled a similar stunt with World of Warcraft. However, WoW is an established...
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Will PlayStation 4 be the Last Game Console?
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 12:11pm | 1104Read More...What will become of the game industry after PlayStation 4, Xbox 720 and Wii U arrive? Many think that this is the end of the line for consoles. With the rise of Android and iOS gaming, some argue that we no longer need a game-specific device. Never mind the fact that mobile gaming is nowhere near...
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World of Warcraft Has Lost its "WoW" Factor
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 3:15pm | 960Read More...Activision's beloved franchise may be crushing Star Wars: The Old Republic, but this MMO is no longer a cash cow. In fact, it might just be a cow -- one that's waiting to be tipped over. But what is the cause? How can World of Warcraft be dying if its chief competitor is struggling to compete? "I...
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World of Warcraft Crushes Star Wars: The Old Republic
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 2:20pm | 1040Read More...The Force is with Activision's beloved MMO. Sadly, the same cannot be said for EA and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) had high hopes for its long-awaited Star Wars MMO, touting it as the next great game in the only genre that has successfully persuaded consumers to pay a...
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Electronic Arts Layoffs Explained
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 2:48pm | 1062Read More...Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) drew quite the controversy when it was revealed that the company planned to layoff as many as 1,000 people. While the game publisher attempted to reduce the bad press with a couple of vague statements, EA never actually denied the layoffs. However, just as people are...
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Four Stocks That Should Abolish Piracy Laws
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 8:22am | 1222Read More...These four corporations should take the laws on piracy and throw them into the meat grinder as soon as possible. The reason? There are many. But in short, current piracy laws make it easier for content to be distributed illegally than through any of the legal channels. It's time for that to change...
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EA Layoffs: Fact or Fiction?
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 2:43pm | 676Read More...Is Electronic Arts prepared to layoff 500 to 1,000 employees? The company, one of the largest game developers and publishers in the world, has denied that it will announce mass layoffs, instead claiming that its end-of-year workforce will surpass its employee base at the end of 2011. But what's...
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Is World of Warcraft Headed to Its Grave?
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 9:40am | 858Read More...Player declines have been reduced, but Activision is facing a harsh reality that its beloved MMORPG is headed to its grave. To most young consumers, Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) is known for publishing the most successful first-person shooter franchise in the history of gaming: Call of Duty. With...
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American Express Acquires Sometrics for $30M, Aims to Boost Payment Platform in Video Games
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 8:15am | 221Read More...With more than 3.3 trillion virtual currency credits distributed, Sometrics is quite an impressive company. Its partners include Playdom, Bigpoint, GamersFirst, Atlus Online, IMVU, and PopCap Games, the latter of which was acquired by Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) this summer. Now it seems that...
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Electronic Arts Now #2 in Social Gaming
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 10:02am | 259Read More...The Madden, FIFA and Battlefield maker is beginning to threaten Zynga's dominance. And it's all thanks to PopCap Games, which Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) acquired for $750 million. The company had been gaining steam with social versions of its console and PC staples. With PopCap now officially...
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Zynga "Appeals to the Same Psychology as Gambling," Says Analytics Expert Jeff Tseng
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 11:20am | 616Read More...It looks like casinos may have finally met their match. When users log into Facebook each day, they don't think that they are entering a gambling arena. When they jump into FarmVille, they don't see it as a virtual slot machine. But ask Jeff Tseng, the co-founder and CEO of user analytics firm...
