Our latest coverage of Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts is set to raise the price of EA Play this summer for both its Standard and Pro subscription tiers. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the publisher recently started sending out emails notifying users of the impending price increase with details on how much they’ll be tacking on to the current monthly subscription prices. The price hike will go into effect [...]
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Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind the popular battle royal shooter Apex Legends, was hit with layoffs last week in line with Electronic Arts’ earlier announcement that it would be cutting 5% of its total workforce. That same announcement also revealed the cancellation of an unannounced Star Wars first-person shooter game that was in the early stages of development at Respawn. [...]
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The video game industry layoffs continue to pile on as Electronic Arts adds several hundred more people to the massive list of employees who lost their jobs since 2023. EA announced that it’s laying off 5% of its total workforce, or roughly 670 employees. That’s on top of the undisclosed number of Codemasters developers laid off in December. CEO Andrew [...]
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Electronic Arts officially ended online support for seven of its older PC and console games earlier this week. Those include Battlefield Bad Company, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1943, Crysis 3, Dead Space 2, Dante’s Inferno, and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, several of which were pulled from their respective storefronts a few months ago. While you can still play their respective [...]
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2023 has unfortunately turned out to be the year of video game layoffs, with multiple companies succumbing to the financial pressures and challenges sweeping across the industry. The year isn’t over yet and its claimed even more victims as Electronic Arts lays off an unknown number of employees from F1 racing game developer Codemasters. “Our business is constantly changing as [...]
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Ubisoft is set to end support for another batch of aging online multiplayer titles early next year. The French publisher will be decommissioning ten more games across multiple platforms on January 25th, 2024, including several older Assassin’s Creed games, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Heroes of Might and Magic VI, and Splinter Cell: Conviction, among others. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts will also [...]
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Electronic Arts continues to cull its offering of online games as it announces its plans to end online support for three more of its older games, namely: Dante’s Inferno, Dead Space 2, and Crysis 3. Dante’s Inferno and Dead Space 2’s online servers are scheduled to shut down on December 8th while Crysis 3 players will only have until September [...]
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Gaming behemoth Electronic Arts has published its fourth quarter and full-year 2023 fiscal year numbers, and the results are looking good. The report shows a slight increase in revenue year-on-year for both periods, with total revenue for the last quarter going up by 3% YOY to $1.87B and the total revenue for the full year going up by 6% YOY [...]
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Electronic Arts has announced its plans to lay off 6% of its workforce as the company restructures itself to better align with its new focus on bolstering existing game communities. According to its CEO Andrew Wilson, the restructuring required management to cut out personnel and project that didn’t align with the company’s new vision. “This is the most difficult part, [...]
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Electronic Arts is once again purging its portfolio of older online games by the end of the year, all of which are legacy Battlefield titles. These include Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company 1, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Online support for the aforementioned games won’t end until December but they’ll be taken off the storefront as early as next month. [...]
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