EA disputes GameStop’s claim that Star Wars: Battlefront underperformed
Early last week during an earnings call, GameStop president Tony Bartel told investors that EA’s recently released Star Wars: Battlefront had underperformed. “We’re not going to quantify it in terms of...
View ArticleEA wants to be the Netflix of PC gaming
Electronic Arts wants to be the Netflix of gaming, this week introducing a low-cost monthly subscription for access to a library of its titles. The new subscription program is called Origin Access, and...
View ArticleCanadian man gets $8K refund from Microsoft for in-game purchases
Lance Perkins, who was somehow astonished when he gave his son unfettered access to an emergency credit card that he ended up spending nearly $8,000 CAD on in-game extras for FIFA on Xbox, is a happy...
View ArticleEA goes solo for E3 Expo
Electronic Arts will not be at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this summer. Instead the company has opted to create its own separate space nearby the LA Convention Center. Naturally...
View ArticleUbisoft challenges EA’s trademark application for ‘Ghost’
Electronic Arts apparently tried to trademark “Ghost,” but ran into a roadblock when Ubisoft, maker of the “Ghost Recon” series of games objected strongly. According to Game Informer, Ubisoft objected...
View ArticleDarkspore goes bye-bye March 1
It looks like Darkspore is finally going down for the long, long dirt nap. This isn’t new news – EA announced last December that the game was going to shut down – but the imminent date of disconnection...
View ArticleEA withdraws trademark application for ‘ghost’
Electronic Arts has withdrawn its trademark application for “Ghost” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), according to a report from PC Gamer. The trademark filing came to light...
View ArticleA special request from future NX owners to EA
Electronic Arts has some strong requests for Nintendo with its next console, the NX. That’s fine, but future NX owners have some request for EA in return. Andrew Eisen lays it all out in his latest...
View ArticleSupreme Court declines to review EA-Madden NFL case
The United States Supreme Court today declined to hear a case involving EA’s Madden NFL, without comment. EA petitioned the highest court in the land related to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. V. DAVIS, MICHAEL...
View ArticleSuper Podcast Action Committee Episode 185 – Truly Outrageous!
On this week’s show (episode 185), hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss the latest GamePolitics poll (“When will Nintendo start talking about the NX” – 25:35 mark), Tracer’s butt (37:14),...
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