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Titanfall gives EA a huge boost to its second-quarter earnings

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected first-fiscal quarter earnings thanks to the release of a big multiplayer shooter game for the Xbox platform.

The release of the Xbox One-exclusive Titanfall in March (and on PC) and the Xbox 360 version in April helped EA report better earnings in the quarter ended June 30. But not all of the news was good: The giant publisher delayed two of its big fall releases, Battlefield: Hardline and Dragon Age: Inquisition.

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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.