During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson responded to a question concerning the fact that a few regulatory bodies in Europe classified loot boxes in some games, including FIFA 18, as gambling. Wilson mentioned that the publisher is working with all of the
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During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen talked about the company’s predictions about console sales in the current year. The publisher expects PS4 and Xbox One to “continue to be strong,” and the combined installed base of the two consoles to grow to
During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson talked about the new Battlefield and Anthem. We hear that both of will “introduce new dynamics” that will change the way fans interact with the games and with each other. First of all, we hear more
As part of its presentation for investors related to the end of fiscal year 2018, Electronic Arts announced the release windows of its main games for the current fiscal year, which will end on March 31st, 2018. As you can see in the table below, in the second quarter, which spans the summer months from
Today Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, which is related to the period between January 1st and March 31st. You can check out the relevant figures in the table below. As you can see, all the income figures are in the black, showing growth year-on-year. The results
Hazelight Studios recently hosted a Reddit AMA session for their fans on the PS4 subreddit, and one of the questions brought forward was to why their title, A Way Out, would not be hitting the Nintendo Switch with other platform releases on March 23. One reason, explained by Hazelight programmer Lucas de Vries, was due
As a spin-off from the charming Plants vs. Zombies series from PopCap Games, the Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare series took the tower-defense mechanics of the original game and applied it to a surprisingly robust third-person shooter framework, and now a third entry in the series might be on the way, according to Amazon. An Amazon listing
There is something unquantifiably striking about Zoink Games’ indie project Fe — even the still images give an air of mystery about the game’s natural landscape covered in purple tint. The creatures that inhabit Fe‘s rich world manage to be both familiar and alien, strange yet natural. And, perhaps the most important element: the perplexing nature of Fe digs deeper
Having been announced yesterday, Burnout Paradise Remastered will bring players back into Paradise City to witness the stunning open-world and freedom of the 2008 classic, and now a few more details have been shared about the upcoming remaster of the acclaimed racing game. EA and Ghost Games’ Ben Walke shared a few more details about the
Originally released back in 2008, the beloved open-world racer Burnout Paradise brought players into a huge world of sunshine, racing, and of course, epic car crashes, and now you can return to Paradise City later this year with the newly-announced Burnout Paradise Remastered. EA has announced a remastered version of Burnout Paradise Remastered, which will be coming to
Today Electronic Arts released its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2018 (related to the period between October 1st and December 31st, 2017). You can check out the figures (in million dollars) in the table below. Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson accompanied the press release with a statement. “Players enjoyed hundreds
Microsoft is continuing its campaign to advertise the power of Xbox One X associated with Madden NFL 18 by Electronic Arts, and today they released another related commercial. Once more, they bring to bear Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch as he talks to his hand. This time around, after a quip on the power
Modding continues to bring your wildest dreams to life. Sure, mods add new features and stories to games like Fallout 4 and other Bethesda titles, but sometimes mods let you do absurd things like changing all the dragons in Skyrim into Thomas the Tank Engine. But recently, modders gave us the ability to be Matt the Technician from the Undercover
Microsoft its continuing its campaign to advertise the power of the Xbox One X, recently releasing a commercial focusing on the enhancements for the new console featured in Madden NFL 18. The commercial stars Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, as he talks to… his hand, and ends with the familiar slogan “Plays Best on
Electronic Arts is spreading some holiday cheer this year with a holiday sale on its digital distribution platform EA Origin. For a limited time, save big on a slew of titles published by Electronic Arts for PC. This year has seen a lot of new releases, especially from AAA publishers such as Electronic Arts. Of
When Star Wars Battlefront II was officially announced earlier this year, we knew that we would eventually get content based on the upcoming (and latest) film entry in the franchise, The Last Jedi. Now that we are just over a week away from the film’s release, EA DICE has officially revealed that we will be getting four weeks of
While it has been anything but quiet in terms of business for Electronic Arts, financial deals and standard practice for the monolith publishing company is going undeterred. And yes, this includes EA’s acquisition of Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment. In a recent blog post, Electronic Arts has officially confirmed that they have closed the deal on the once-independent
Since its inception, EA Access has provided gamers with the chance to experience a vast collection of the publisher’s back catalog for a low monthly price, with Dead Space 3 — the final core installment of the beloved horror series — now available to enjoy for the price of admission into the program. EA has announced that Dead
Today Electronic Arts announced several changes that are being rolled out into its recently-released racing game Need for Speed Payback, focusing on progression and car upgrades. The development team at Ghost Games has been paying attention to feedback, and they heard “loud and clear” that it’s too time-consuming to upgrade multiple cars. Since developers agree
Recently, there has been a lot of discourse about the practice of loot boxes in games, mostly sparked by Electronic Arts’ Star Wars Battlefront 2. The issue has attracted the attention of the political world, and there are at least two initiatives in the pipeline. The first comes from the Belgian Minister of Justice Koen
Star Wars Battlefront II‘s release made headlines for the temporary removal of the pervasive microtransactions scheme that caused a large controversy among gamers. Yet, they aren’t gone forever, and they will return in some form after the development team changes their inner workings. At the moment, we do not know how. In recent times, the
Yesterday Electronic Arts announced that the controversial real-money microtransactions have been temporarily removed from Star Wars Battlefront II, promising that they will come back only after “changes” are made to the game and apologizing for not “getting it right” at the beginning. Yet, today the company posted a securities filing which included the mention that the
Towards the end of his speech at the UBS Global Technology Conference 2017 in San Francisco, Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen talked about consoles and game streaming. Jorgensen explained that over the past couple of years console manufacturers have done two very important things: one is doing smaller, incremental improvements on the consoles.
During the UBS Global Technology Conference 2017 in San Francisco, Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen talked about Bioware’s Anthem and EA Motive’s upcoming action game. Jorgensen mentioned that Electronic Arts is trying to bring up great new titles that could turn into franchises. As an example of that, he brought up BioWare’s Anthem.
During the UBS Global Technology Conference 2017 in San Francisco, Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen talked about Star Wars Battlefront II, microtransactions and live services in general. Jorgensen admitted that there has been “a lot of chatter” about microtransactions in the game. He explained that what Electronic Arts is really doing is trying
Star Wars Battlefront II is just a few days away from its official release, and while plenty of gamers have had the chance to go hands-on with the game ahead of its full release this week, EA is taking the initiative to address one of the more common criticisms of its microtransaction economy by reducing
Fans and critics have been lambasting EA over the weekend amidst calculations that certain unlockable heroes in Star Wars Battlefront II may take 40 hours to unlock (i.e. Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, etc.). In an attempt to quell the response from a segment of the fanbase, the EA Community Team created a Reddit post on
Mixed martial arts has captivated fans for quite some time and with the upcoming EA Sports UFC 3, EA Sports is looking to bring players closer to the action than ever before with one of the most realistic interpretations of the sport yet. EA has released its brand new reveal trailer for EA Sports UFC 3 that
Yesterday I got to get my hands on the newly-revealed EA UFC 3 on PS4, and although it’s still an early build, it looked and played incredibly smooth and showed off many of the new improvements that developer EA Canada have been boasting about. Graphically, technically, and simply authentically, the game has been boosted to the next
While wrestling has been a tradition in gaming for decades, mixed martial arts has still been growing in bringing the popular sport over to games, with the latest iteration of the sport heading to consoles next year. During a reveal event for the upcoming EA Sports UFC 3 in New York City, DualShockers had the opportunity to