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Battlefield 2042 Players Start Petition Seeking Refunds For An ‘Unplayable’ Game

February 15, 2022 Marc Marasigan Comments

Battlefield 2042 players have started a Change.org petition demanding full refunds due to the game being virtually unplayable due to bugs and other issues. The petition accuses Electronic Arts and DICE of false advertising and unfulfilled launch promises resulting in what players describe as a bug-ridden, poorly-made game. “According to many consumer reports, Electronic Arts and DICE did not keep [...]

Q3 2022 Was Electronic Arts’ Biggest Quarter, Battlefield 2042 ‘Did Not Meet Expectations’

February 3, 2022 Marc Marasigan Comments

2021 has been a great year for Electronic Arts Entertainment as shown in their Q3 2022 financial report. According to the report, the fiscal quarter ending in December 31, 2021 was the company’s biggest quarter to date with a total net revenue of $1.789 billion, up by 6.9% quarter-over-quarter. Net revenue for the whole of 2021 also saw a 22% [...]

Electronic Arts Scrapped A Harry Potter MMO Due To Lack Of Faith In The Franchise

December 29, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Electronic Arts was apparently working on a Harry Potter MMO between 2000 and 2003 but ultimately decided to Avada Kedavra the title. Former EA Director of Product Marketing Kim Salzer revealed that the game had made it to beta testing before it was scrapped due to undisclosed changes within the company and an overall lack of faith in the popularity [...]

Respawn Entertainment Fires Apex Legends Lead Game Designer Over Old Sexist And Racist Remarks

August 13, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Apex Legends Lead Game Designer Daniel Klein has been fired by Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment mainly due to sexist remarks he made in a blog post titled “I am Daniel’s Angry Rant” which he published back in 2007. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the blog post contained comments that women are naturally irrational and that the XX chromosomes are “moron chromosomes.” [...]

Electronic Arts Confirms Security Breach, Frostbite And FIFA Source Codes Stolen

June 11, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Electronic Arts fell victim to hackers earlier this week, with the perpetrators managing to steal over 780 gigabytes (GB) of data, including Frostbite source code. The Frostbite game engine powers multiple EA games, including the Battlefield, FIFA, and Madden series of games, among others. The hackers also claimed to have stolen FIFA 21 dev tools and matchmaking server codes for [...]

Electronic Arts Pulls Need For Speed Devs To Work On Battlefield 6 With DICE

March 2, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

With just a few months until the promised Battlefield 6 holiday 2021 release, Electronic Arts is under pressure to deliver a polished game, especially with the Cyberpunk 2077 fiasco fresh on every gamer’s mind. To accomplish this, the publisher has given DICE extra manpower by pulling Criterion Games developers working on Need for Speed and reassigning them to Battlefield 6. [...]

Electronic Arts Acquires Glu Mobile For $2.1 Billion

February 10, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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And so the age-old tale of big companies gobbling up smaller ones continues. Electronic Arts has just announced that they’ve reached an agreement with Glu Mobile to acquire the American mobile games developer for $2.1 billion. Glu shareholders will receive $12.50 for each share which, according to GamesIndustry.biz, is a 36% premium over Glu’s closing stock price last Friday. The [...]

Mojang And Electronic Arts Cancels Gaming Events Due To COVID-19

March 9, 2020 Marc Marasigan Comments

Another round of video game companies have announced the cancellation of their events in light of the COVID-19 global outbreak. First up is Swedish video game developer Mojang. The Minecraft developer has decided to cancel this year’s Minecraft Festival in Florida. The decision to postpone the event wasn’t a direct result of the outbreak, but because the planning had to [...]

CD Projekt Red And PUBG Corp. Withdraw From PAX East As Electronic Arts Backs Out Of GDC

February 26, 2020 Marc Marasigan Comments

Over the past few weeks, several big-name video game companies announced their decisions to withdraw from this weekend’s PAX East conference in Boston due to the looming threat of the COVID-19 virus. The growing list of companies that have decided to skip the convention include Capcom, Square Enix, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and more recently, CD Projekt Red and PUBG Corp. [...]

Amazon, EA, & Comcast Are Joining The Bidding War For Nexon

February 28, 2019 Marc Marasigan Comments

Nexon has been on sale for some time now and all eyes are on who will be bidding for controlling shares of South Korea’s largest gaming company. Last week, Netmarble and Kakao Games backed by Tencent submitted their bids for the Korean gaming giant. According to VentureBeat Amazon, Electronic Arts, and Comcast have also just joined the bidding war. Other [...]

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