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EA says 76 percent of its revenue comes from digital publishing

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts has crossed into the digital age like no other console video game publisher.

The company is announcing today that 76 percent of its first fiscal quarter earnings for the period ended June 30 came from digital goods and services. That performance helped it beat its guidance.

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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.