Posts Tagged ‘EA’

Palm and EA to Provide Free Games to UK Consumers

March 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

In order to increase the popularity of Palm’s Pre amongst consumers and to make them aware of Palm’s app store, the company has struck a deal with EA to make several games available for free.

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EA to Acquire Another Mobile Developer

February 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA Mobile seems set for expansion yet again as EA is acquiring Iron Monkey Studios. The amount has not been disclosed, but the company has been developing EA’s key franchises for some time.

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Kindle Opening Up

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Kindle | No Comments »

Amazon has announced it will allow developers to create apps for its e-book readers. Amazon will allow ‘active content’ later in 2010 and the first developers have been reported working on mobile games for it.

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EA lowers Their 2010 Financial Outlook

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

EA has announced that expectations for their 2010 financial year will be below previous expectations. December revenues were disappointing for the games publisher.

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DevCon: Rim Announces OpenGL Support

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM announced to start implementing OpenGL ES into their handsets. With the implementation of OpenGL, the company is increasing its commitment toward the mobile games industry.

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Financials: EA’s Q2 (2010)

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA Mobile has generated a turnover of $ 51 Million during the quarter. Other platforms still seem to hold well as mobile is still roughly 5% of EA’s total revenues.

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EA and Gameloft’s App Store Pricing Analysed

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Jon Jordan has taken the time to analyse the price differences bethween EA, Gameloft and prette much the rest of the developers that managed to hit the top 100 in the US app store.

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EA’s FY 2008-2009

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

EA announced their full year results over their financial year 2008-2009. Though cost reductions are still ongoing, mobile seems to be performing well for the company.

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Maxis Sends Spore Developer back to College

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

In order to stimulate students that wish to take part in the games industry, Maxis is sending the developer of their Spore franchise to colleges around the US.