Posts Tagged ‘EA’

GDC: Zeebo Partner Update

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Yesterday, we covered the news that Qualcomm is finally releasing Zeebo in the Brazilian market. Meanwhile, we have started to check around on the internet to find out which content partners already signed up for the Brew/3G based console.

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PNY Relaunches EA microSD Card Offering

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

PocketGamer features an interesting story about a memory company called PNY. That company is selling EA branded micro SD cards which provide the buyer access to a free mobile game from EA Mobile.

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EU Roaming Price Cuts Good for Mobile Gaming?

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Within the next three years, the European Commission hopes to cut back roaming costs for consumers. These cutbacks will not only focus on calls and SMS traffic, but also data roaming charges.

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D.I.C.E: The Credit Crunch is a Blessing according to EA

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

At D.I.C.E., EA's CEO John Riccitiello has outed that the current credit crunch is a true blessing for the games industry. He also explained how game publishers and developer can survive in these tough times.

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EA Licenses G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra

February 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

G.I. Joe is coming to the cinema's, like how cool is that!? Well, it's cool enough for EA to at least license the brand from Hasbro for all platforms imaginable, including mobile!

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Financials: EA (Mobile)

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

THQ isn't the only company that suffered bad financial result last quarter. EA has taken a loss of $ 641 million and will also slim down in order to make their company healthy again.

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The MMO of Game Publishing

January 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | 5 Comments »

Player EA logged in.
Player Midway logged in.
Player Activision logged in.
Player Take_2 logged in.
Player THQ logged in.
Player Microsoft logged in.
Player Sony logged in…

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EA’s Restructuring Update

December 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Most of you probably noticed our reporting on several people in EA Mobile and EA Casual leaving their business behind. Today, we received an official update on EA's restructuring plans.

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EA Terminates Need for Speed?

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »

According to several rumours, EA is about to terminate one of the longest lasting brands in racing games because of restructuring plans. Indeed, we talk about the highly acclaimed Need for Speed series.

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EA Food for Acquisition!?

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Could EA be bought? That is a question on the mind of MocoNews earlier this week. They looked at various situations in which EA could end up as property of other multinationals.