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The iPad is Electronic Arts’ fastest growing platform for deploying games, according to the studio’s Chief Executive Officer, John Riccitiello.Apple promoted the first iPad as a great gaming platform, but the original tablet is almost nothing like the iPad 2 in terms of performance.The second-generation p... |
28 July 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has confessed his love for the upcoming Nintendo Wii U platform, particularly its unique controller, which will enable gamers to transcend the motion control experience currently delivered by the regular Wii, as well as the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, and immerse themselves into th... |
13 July 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has talked about the next generation of video game consoles and emphasized that they aren't really needed in order to jumpstart creativity in the industry.Lots of people are talking about the new generation of hardware consoles, especially since Nintendo has already revealed ... |
17 June 2011
03:40 GMT |
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John Riccitiello, who is the chief executive officer of video game publisher Electronic Arts, has told an audience of graduating students that failure is central to all experiences and that success is linked inextricably to it.
He told an audience at UC Berkley that, “You will fail. That is, if you want to suc... |
24 May 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello revealed during his keynote presentation at the Ad Age conference that the upcoming Battlefield 3 is designed to take down the next Call of Duty title from rival company Activision.
EA is still tending to its ego after Activision managed to take the first-person shooter crown f... |
8 April 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello is adamant that Battlefield 3, his company's newest upcoming first-person shooter is going to be the best product of the genre this year.
Battlefield 3 has just received its first concrete details a few weeks ago, and EA has already begun hyping it up as being one of the ... |
21 February 2011
04:20 GMT |
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After saying that digital distribution is set to overtake physical one during 2011, EA CEO John Riccitiello now highlights that even so, physical game discs aren't going away anytime soon due to their reliability.
Digital distribution is increasing by leaps and bounds, not only through the advent of online ga... |
17 January 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Digital distribution is set to become more important and profitable than the traditional one, at least according to Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello, who shared his thoughts on the retail business.
Digital sales are becoming an incremental part of the whole gaming industry, with games and other content being ... |
11 January 2011
02:40 GMT |
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EA boss John Riccitiello believes that while motion controls are currently the biggest trend in gaming, they still won't replace the traditional controllers.
Seeing as how all major consoles this generation have some sort of motion controls, many regular gamers are getting worried that all future titles will ... |
10 January 2011
03:20 GMT |
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EA boss John Riccitiello, after talking about his company's greatest rival, Activision, and its prestigious Call of Duty franchise, has chimed in on the rivalry between two of the biggest console makers out there, Sony and Microsoft.
According to the EA chief executive officer, even if Microsoft went to great... |
23 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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EA CEO John Riccitiello went on the offensive against rival company Activision, its most prestigious franchise, Call of Duty, and the developer of the most recent game in the series, Treyarch.
While it isn't the first time this has happened, Riccitiello cast some serious doubts over the large games publisher ... |
22 December 2010
18:01 GMT |
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EA boss John Riccitiello recently revealed that, in order to improve sales of both its hardware and software, Nintendo should definitely consider a price cut for its Wii console in order to make a comeback in terms of profit.
Nintendo, even if it had an extremely profitable Black Friday, and will no doubt see lots... |
17 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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EA boss John Riccitiello talked about Sony's Blu-ray technology, and how it went from an awkward feature to one of the biggest advantages for the PlayStation 3, largely because of the disc's huge capacity.
Blu-ray is the standard format for all PlayStation 3 games, and even if it hasn't really showe... |
9 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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EA boss John Riccitiello recently talked about his company's prestigious golf simulator franchise, which, for the last 12 years, had the name of Tiger Woods permanently associated with it, saying that the famous golfer needs to start performing better in order to stay on the cover.Tiger Woods has gone through a ... |
7 December 2010
14:21 GMT |
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EA boss man John Riccitiello revealed last week his view on sports games and how skateboarding titles in particular had "run their course" and that they were no longer popular enough to warrant investment for new iterations.
EA was late to the skateboarding game genre, as Activision dominated it for a long time th... |
6 December 2010
14:21 GMT |
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EA, one of the biggest video game companies in the business, admitted, through the voice of its CEO, John Riccitiello, that it has exploited its Need For Speed franchise by putting a single developer, EA Black Box, to release a new game each year.Need For Speed is still one of the most popular racing game franchises,... |
23 September 2010
18:01 GMT |
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John Riccitiello, who is the Chief Executive Officer of publisher Electronic Arts, has defended the company's upcoming release Medal of Honor, which has created a bit of a media storm when a mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan claimed that the game was disrespectful for allowing gamers to take on the role ... |
16 September 2010
16:51 GMT |
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The chief executive officer of Electronic Arts backed up the company's Online Pass initiative and said that it was not meant to be a used-sales deterrent, but to bring added value to the customers that preferred playing their sports games online. It may be worth remembering that EA Sports titles bought as new pr... |
10 June 2010
08:22 GMT |
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Haruhiro Tsujimoto, Capcom's chief executive officer, expressed in a recent interview his hopes for Nintendo's next handheld console, the 3DS. While he was excited about the new technology, he was concerned about the business model that Nintendo would implement with the launch of the new platform. “O... |
9 June 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Last week, Mitch Lasky, a former EA executive, started a bit of a turf war with his former employer, and mainly with John Riccitiello. He blamed Riccitiello for running a “bankrupt strategy” with Electronic Arts and that, “Since JR took over, the company has destroyed over $11 billion in marke... |
19 January 2010
04:33 GMT |
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When it comes to piracy, not even the Caribbeans are as populated with swashbucklers as the video-game industry. As such, every publisher has tried in one way or another to limit the number of illegal copies that end up in the hands of gamers, with all sorts of methods. Some have deployed the dreaded DRM, while other... |
9 December 2009
16:31 GMT |
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When John Riccitiello returned as Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, he put forward a new philosophy: his company would no longer just put out annual iterations of its biggest franchises, like Madden or FIFA or Rock Band, but would try to create and promote new intellectual properties that would establish lo... |
4 December 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Mirror's Edge was a confusing game, mainly because it had some really good, innovative ideas, but there were a lot of things that just didn't seem to fit together. It was like the developers just found out that it had terminal cancer and had to pour all the ideas they ever had into this one, final creation ... |
4 December 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Madden NFL is a huge franchise and its performance is a clear indicator of how well the videogaming industry is doing overall and how well Electronic Arts is doing in a particular year. So, with the game moving about 1.9 million copies in August, with a life time on shelves of about two weeks, Madden NFL seems to be ... |
11 September 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies out there, owning a lot of high-quality and extremely popular franchises. Most of them were made to compete with the ones from Activision, and, for some time, have really gone against the ones from the large corporation. Such is the case with EA's Medal of Honor s... |
10 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Piracy is all around us these days, ranging from software to video games or movies. But one of the areas most affected by it is PC gaming, where a lot of users tend to pirate their favorite titles in order to escape the ordeal of DRM software, like the infamous SecuROM, or to try it out with full features before deci... |
23 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is sending word that it is making an important change at the top as its current Chief Operation Officer, John Pleasants, is set to leave to join a social gaming company called Playdom.His replacement is a former Electronic Arts man, John Schappert (is John a favored name at EA?), who has been a part o... |
22 June 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Racing games are extremely popular thanks to the adrenaline rush that they offer gamers all around the world who want to have their need for high speed races satisfied. Two of the biggest franchises in racing belong to Electronic Arts, in the form of Need For Speed and Burnout. While the NFS brand has now been sprea... |
11 June 2009
03:22 GMT |
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The gaming industry saw a lot of brand new IPs (Intellectual Properties) released last year, most of them coming from a company that was infamous for the fact that it “milked” its franchises with yearly installments and didn't focus on making new games, Electronic Arts. Titles such as Dead Space, Mir... |
4 February 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is, apparently, in a tight spot. It has laid off people from both Madden powerhouse EA Tiburon and from the Mythic Entertainment team handling development and maintenance of the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. And it seems that the company is still short of its restructuring goal of laying off... |
22 January 2009
14:21 GMT |
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After the launch of the biggest videogames of 2008, analysts are looking at the relative power of the various publishers, judging which are on track to meeting their financial projections and which are going to present worst than expected figures.Electronic Arts is now in the spotlight, with people like Michael Pacht... |
11 December 2008
03:33 GMT |
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The Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, the much quoted and very active John Riccitiello, has bought stock in the company that he leads, stock which at the date it was acquired was valued at more than 1 million dollars. The exact number of shares bought was 42,500 and the value per share was 24.50 dollars.Ric... |
6 November 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest gaming companies out there, being topped only by the Activision-Blizzard corporation. This status brought to EA a not so kind reputation of wanting only to squeeze every penny out of a game and not caring about its quality. But this is something the corporation wants to change, b... |
16 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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DRM, or Digital Rights Management, has been quite a popular subject in the last few months. Upon the release of the eagerly awaited Spore title, a lot of critics said that the SecuROM DRM system was pretty strict in terms of user rights. These statements created such a backlash that people who actually felt the impac... |
15 October 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Less than a year after he launched the mantra of "quality over quantity" at Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello believes that his efforts in creating a more capable publisher and developer have largely succeeded. Electronic Arts, known for rushing out big games in an effort to create as much value as possible for share... |
30 July 2008
04:38 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Electronic Arts Chief Executive Officer, John Riccitiello has purchased some 1 million dollars worth of EA shares in trading, according to financial documents that are of public domain. The top executive has added exactly 20,000 shares to his portfolio, worth exactly 967,000 dollars in stock. Before the d... |
26 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Now, more than ever, it seriously looks like Lara Croft will be moving the stuff from Croft Manor (Croft Mansion) over to another company. Rumor had it that French rival Ubisoft was the one bidding to acquire SCi Entertainment, owners of the well known Tomb Raider franchise. Time Warner also fits somewhere in the gra... |
6 September 2007
06:27 GMT |
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