EA Sports FC likely to replace ‘FIFA’ name
Electronic Arts doesn’t want to pay a premium to FIFA, the organization behind soccer, for the name of its soccer game. The FIFA games...
Electronic Arts sees 18% rise in bookings to $1.49 billion in Q1 2021
Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected earnings today for the fourth-fiscal quarter ended March 31, as live operations and original titles carried it through a relatively...
FIFA 21 has attracted over 25 million players, Ultimate Team up 16%
During today’s earnings report, Electronic Arts said that FIFA 21 has now reached over 25 million players. FIFA 21 launched on October 9 for...
Electronic Arts’ core franchises delivered while Apex Legends reloaded
Electronic Arts had a strong first quarter of its fiscal 2020. The publisher generated $743 million in revenue, which beat Wall Street’s expectations. That’s...
FIFA 19 and FIFA 18 had 45 million unique console and PC players in EA’s fiscal 2019
FIFA is one of the most popular franchises in video games. How popular? The soccer sim drew 45 million unique players on PC, PlayStation...
The FTC saunters into the loot box fight
This time 12 months ago, loot boxes were the biggest story in the video game business . But now, even though they are still in...
EA’s stock drops 6% as it signals slower quarters and fewer games ahead
Electronic Arts‘ stock price fell 6 percent in after-hours trading as the big video game publisher signaled that it wasn’t as bullish about the...
EA CEO: We’re ‘pushing forward’ with loot boxes despite regulation
Belgium and the Netherlands have ruled that many loot boxes in games like FIFA Ultimate Team are equivalent to gambling and in violation of their...
Yes, loot boxes and card packs reek of gambling
Loot boxes are inescapable now. You will no doubt have encountered them already, as they are seemingly compulsory in every major new game. Perhaps you’ve opened some Hearthstone packs, which bristle with magic and static electricity as their contents is revealed.
Single-player is the vestigial limb of publishers that had to adapt or die
At some point last century, someone at the U.S. Department of Defense plugged a network cable into a computer. Cut to a few decades...