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Battlefield 1 helps EA beat quarterly earnings targets

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts reported earnings today that beat analysts’ expectations for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31.

The holidays are the game industry’s busiest season, and EA had big titles like Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 to compete against Activision’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. But it’s stock is down 2.7 percent in after-hours trading at $81.17 a share, as it appears the market hasn’t grasped yet that EA beat earnings expectations.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.