EA Sports could lure new FIFA video game fans with trainer mode and women’s teams (hands-on)
Besides adding female players, EA is making FIFA 16 easier to play.
PGA Tour adds some Battlefield shine — and lets you play as a true duffer, too
EA brings some big changes to its long-running golf franchise. Electronic Arts parted ways with golf star Tiger Woods in 2013, putting an end to the Tiger Woods PGA Tour golf simulation game series that had seen yearly releases since 1999.
How EA joined with an indie studio for a game about cultural expression … and yarn
Studio goes from sports games to something softer.
Need for Speed’s reboot starts under the hood
The new Need for Speed game comes after a rare one-year break for EA, and it’s coming from Ghost Games, the makers of the previous franchise title, 2013’s Need for Speed: Rivals. Ghost Games’ general manager Marcus Nilsson said that the studio took time off to reevaluate what the franchise means to fans.
Activision’s Bobby Kotick, EA’s Andrew Wilson make Adweek’s top 100 leaders in media
Adweek’s 100 most influential leaders in marketing, media, and tech has a few notable gaming execs interspersed among the usual suspects — Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is at 27, and EA’s Andrew Wilson is at 58.
Blockbuster game publishers describe harassment policies in the modern era of hate
Human resources leads from Wargaming, Electronic Arts, and Square Enix discussed the changes that had to be made to harassment policies in this modern era of SWATing.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is GamesBeat’s 2014 Game of the Year
Welcome to a world of myth, legend, and sociopolitical intrigue.
Hacker group Lizard Squad claims to have taken EA’s servers down
Hackers have turned to EA after bringing down the PlayStation Network earlier.
Chairman Larry Probst steps down as an active employee at Electronic Arts
Former CEO Probst came back as executive chairman after a management shake-up in 2013.
Dragon Age: Inquisition ties your smallest actions into a continent-wide power struggle
Dragon Age: Inquisition executive producer Mark Darrah recently walked GamesBeat through how pretty much every action you take in BioWare's latest fantasy RPG gives momentum to the main story.