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Friday, May 29
Does game quality translate into better financial performance?
CA When big games are delayed, such as Spore or the Godfather 2, quality is often the main reason. But EA has been losing money because its costs are growing at a faster rate than its revenues. The focus on quality costs a lot of money. ...
Tuesday, May 5
Electronic Arts reports lower loss than expected, readies huge ...
Other interesting details: Spore has sold more than 2 million copies. The Madden NFL and Need for Speed franchises sold more than 5 million copies each in fiscal 2009. And Pogo.com, a casual game web site, has 1.8 million paying subscribers, ... EA Reports Q4, FY 2009 Results Crispy Gamer
Thursday, Apr 23
Roundup: Wright sticks with Spore, Zango folds, Texas gives solar ...
Wright still on board with Spore — Despite his departure from Electronic Arts, the Sims creator says he will still pitch in on Spore's sequels. Game runs apocalypse drills — A report on crisis response has been released based on the game Superstruct, ...
Tuesday, Apr 7
BioWare’s founders envision Dragon Age Origins as dark heroic ...
CA VB: Are you thinking about the same cross-media partnerships for Dragon Age that EA has done with Spore and DeadSpace? RM: Yes. We are very interested in getting our content into books, movies, comics, figurines. We’ve got a book already, ...
Thursday, Apr 2
Will Wright favors Web 2.0-like community-driven game design
Spore lets you upload a video of your creature to YouTube, and it takes the uploaded creatures and uses them to populate the worlds of single-player games. In that sense, the user-generated content makes every Spore game into a unique toy galaxy, ... Will Wright: Gaming feeds egos CNET News
Wednesday, Apr 1
Hal Halpin of ECA lobbies for gamers’ rights in a digital world
CD Freaks.com CA VB: Electronic Arts ran into this problem when they used DRM to limit how many times you could install Spore on different computers. What was the lesson of that? HH: The Spore incident taught everyone a lot of things. I was critical of how EA handled ...
