Electronic Arts News

Electronic Arts, the publisher behind EA Sports FC, Apex Legends, and the long-running Madden NFL series, is set to leave the public markets. The company has reached an agreement to be acquired for roughly $55 billion by a bidding group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) alongside tech-focused investor Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners. Assuming regulators [...]

The video game industry layoffs continue to pile on as Electronic Arts adds several hundred more people to the massive list of employees who lost their jobs since 2023. EA announced that it’s laying off 5% of its total workforce, or roughly 670 employees. That’s on top of the undisclosed number of Codemasters developers laid off in December. CEO Andrew [...]

Electronic Arts officially ended online support for seven of its older PC and console games earlier this week. Those include Battlefield Bad Company, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1943, Crysis 3, Dead Space 2, Dante’s Inferno, and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, several of which were pulled from their respective storefronts a few months ago. While you can still play their respective [...]

2023 has unfortunately turned out to be the year of video game layoffs, with multiple companies succumbing to the financial pressures and challenges sweeping across the industry. The year isn’t over yet and its claimed even more victims as Electronic Arts lays off an unknown number of employees from F1 racing game developer Codemasters. “Our business is constantly changing as [...]

Electronic Arts continues to cull its offering of online games as it announces its plans to end online support for three more of its older games, namely: Dante’s Inferno, Dead Space 2, and Crysis 3. Dante’s Inferno and Dead Space 2’s online servers are scheduled to shut down on December 8th while Crysis 3 players will only have until September [...]

Gaming behemoth Electronic Arts has published its fourth quarter and full-year 2023 fiscal year numbers, and the results are looking good. The report shows a slight increase in revenue year-on-year for both periods, with total revenue for the last quarter going up by 3% YOY to $1.87B and the total revenue for the full year going up by 6% YOY [...]

Electronic Arts has announced its plans to lay off 6% of its workforce as the company restructures itself to better align with its new focus on bolstering existing game communities. According to its CEO Andrew Wilson, the restructuring required management to cut out personnel and project that didn’t align with the company’s new vision. “This is the most difficult part, [...]