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Peter Moore Denies Killing the SEGA Dreamcast

The man who is known as having killed the Dreamcast SEGA home console sought to clarify his role in getting the Japanese company out of the hardware market.In an interview with IndustryGamers Peter Moore, who is now the Chief Operations Officer at publisher Electronic Arts, said, “The idea of ‘making the ...

12 December 2011
15:11 GMT

Peter Moore Says Wii U Is Exciting, Makes Him Happy

The Nintendo Wii U home console is widely expected to be launched during the summer of next year and, while excited by the possibilities of the device, one Electronic Arts leaders says that his company will not yet make official announcements about the games it will bring to the platform.Peter Moore, who is now the C...

18 November 2011
10:01 GMT

EA's Peter Moore Defends Origin in Front of Heckler

Electronic Arts' newly appointed Chief Operating Officer, Peter Moore, was faced at a press conference in Sydney with a heckler that criticized the company's recently released Origin digital distribution service, so he defended it with a variety of arguments.EA's Origin was released earlier this year o...

21 October 2011
04:03 GMT

Electronic Arts Admits Battlefield 3 Might Come Second to Modern Warfare 3

Battlefield 3 has recently managed to get yet another award, this time from Gamescom organizers, before launch and a lot of fans are now hoping that the DICE developed game manage to beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in terms of sales.But one leading executive at publisher Electronic Arts says that the company is n...

19 August 2011
08:50 GMT

Peter Moore Says Wii U Controller Is a Better Mouse Trap

The E3 2011 Nintendo announcement of the new Wii U home console was leaning heavily on the new controller that the device would deliver, with its integrated touch screen and the added analog controls, and at least one leading video game industry executive believes that this will be the key to its success.Speaking to ...

10 August 2011
13:41 GMT

Peter Moore Says Madden and FIFA Will See More Community Involvement

EA Sports is one of the biggest moneymakers in the world of video games, the home of such huge franchises like FIFA and Madden NFL, but the division faces significant challenges going forward, including the possibility of no football and basketball seasons in the coming year.Peter Moore, the outspoken executive at El...

17 June 2011
04:30 GMT

EA Sports Not Keen on 3D Gaming

Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, has stated that the biggest franchises he publishes, FIFA and Madden, would not make the move to three dimensions soon because of the costs of the technology and the limited impact they would have on the experience for most gamers.Speaking to CVG Peter Moore has said, “I...

27 September 2010
04:29 GMT

EA Sports Leaders Sees No New Consoles for Next Three Years

Peter Moore, who is the president of the EA Sports division at Electronic Arts, has said that the current generation of console, made up of the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii, will go on for another at least three years, as developers try to recoup their development costs.Talking to Eurogamer as par...

15 September 2010
14:51 GMT

EA Sports: FIFA 11 Team Will Not Focus On Getting High Review Scores

Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, has declared in a recent interview that video game development should not focus only on obtaining high Metacritic scores, because that did not always go well with players. Trying to obtain a strong critical reception is a slippery slope that may lead developers away from their...

20 July 2010
14:21 GMT

Peter Moore Wants to Digitize the Madden NFL Player

Peter Moore was present at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference, which took place in San Francisco and the talk quickly turned to one of the biggest franchises linked with EA Sports, Madden NFL, the football simulation that brings in huge amounts of revenue every year with its August launch. And it seems the vide...

2 March 2010
14:31 GMT

Madden NFL Coming to Facebook

Tired of seeing a variety of messages pop up on your Facebook page without them actually meaning anything to you personally? Soon, some of them will be Madden-themed if EA Sports has its way and manages to move the complete American football simulation experience to the popular social gaming platform.Peter Moore, who...

9 February 2010
16:21 GMT

Electronic Arts Is Very Serious About Social Gaming

Electronic Arts recently acquired Playfish and followed up on the announcement of Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online by saying that it plans to develop and launch a free-to-play version of its football simulation FIFA, which will arrive in the form of an open beta in June 2010.The publisher seems pretty serious about creati...

2 February 2010
03:37 GMT

Peter Moore Is Interested in Gaming on the Apple Tablet

After revolutionizing gaming with the release of the iPhone, which has attracted a wide variety of developers looking for a breakthrough and proved a threat when it comes to gaming on the go for the Nintendo DS line and for the PlayStation Portable from Sony, Apple might offer another disruptive moment with its annou...

27 January 2010
17:51 GMT

Tiger Woods, the Only Golfer for EA Sports

Tiger Woods might have lost the support of huge companies like Gillette and Accenture and the sponsorship money that came with it but the disgraced golfer can still count on Electronic Arts. The videogame publisher is clearly saying that it will continue to use him in its games as long as he continues to perform as a...

25 January 2010
14:31 GMT

Peter Moore Explains Why EA Sports Still Likes Tiger Woods

Electronic Arts has recently announced that it is planning to create a new golf-related experience, called Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, which will allow gamers to get involved in matches with other players and even face off in virtual tournaments modeled after real world ones.But the part of the announcement that dre...

7 January 2010
14:51 GMT

FIFA 10 Performs Well in Japan

FIFA is one of the biggest franchises Electronic Arts puts out every year and the edition released in 2009 is quite an improvement over the previous ones, introducing a better and smoother dribbling system and a more complex tactics section. But if there's one market that still seems unassailable for the FIFA fr...

5 November 2009
03:29 GMT

EA Sports President Peter Moore Sees a Grim Future for Videogames

PSP Go's decision to head more towards digital distribution and discard the physical support for most of its products has received harsh criticism. But at least one other person out there thinks that Sony's new console is making the right decision. EA Sports president Peter Moore didn't make any direct...

20 October 2009
04:07 GMT

Madden NFL 10 Pre-Orders Are Through the Roof

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest video game publishers out there, owing much of its yearly revenue to hit franchises like Need For Speed or its sports series that tackles everything from soccer to basketball and anything in between.But without a doubt one of its biggest money makers, at least in the United State...

7 August 2009
02:39 GMT

Electronic Arts Announces Madden Arcade

EA Sports is one of the main drivers behind the better than expected results announced by publisher Electronic Arts. Sure, the company has posted a loss and declining revenue but the situation is better than originally projected. EA Sports is set to continue the trend by introducing a new Madden title, labeled Arcade...

5 August 2009
17:31 GMT

EA Sports' Peter Moore Responds to UFC Boss' Accusations

Sports games are extremely popular these days, as they offer regular gamers the possibilities to play as their favorite athletes or leading their favorite team to victory in various competitions. We've been hearing a lot about the upcoming EA Sports MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) game from the prestigious label, prom...

15 July 2009
03:06 GMT

John Madden's Retirement Is Good for the Madden NFL Franchise

Electronic Arts is an extremely important publisher, owning a lot of big money marking franchises like Need for Speed or FIFA. But one of the biggest, at least in North America, is its Madden NFL one, which generates huge sums every year it is launched.Bearing the name of famous NFL player and commentator John Madden...

24 June 2009
13:01 GMT

Peter Moore Challenges Obama to Fitness Face Off

Barack Obama is young. His daughters use a Nintendo Wii gaming console. He mentioned Grand Theft Auto IV on his campaign trail. And now he is again talking about videogames in not such flattering light.In a written feature released on the occasion of Father's Day, President Barack Obama stated that “We nee...

22 June 2009
07:33 GMT

Metacritic Scores Irrelevant for Nintendo Wii Videogames

The boss of EA Sports, the outspoken Peter Moore, is saying that players who would like to pick up Nintendo Wii videogames are not looking up to Metacritic in order to make decisions, but are interested in the user reviews that “normal” gamers create for each title.Moore talked to Gamasutra and said that ...

11 June 2009
07:22 GMT

EA Sports Will Alternate Years Between Fight Night and MMA

Electronic Arts is a video game developer and publisher that has created a not so honoring name for exploiting its franchises with annual installments, which don't really bring a lot of new things to the core mechanics of it. Nowhere is this more apparent than with its Sports label, which launches every year ne...

10 June 2009
13:01 GMT

Developers Need to Communicate with Customers, Says EA Sports Boss

Information these days is almost as valuable as gold, and this is also true in the video game industry where people are desperate to find out new and exciting things about their favorite franchises and about titles that will appear in the future. Just check out the amount of controversy and speculation the recent 15-...

20 May 2009
02:45 GMT

Making Wii Games Isn't Rocket Science, Says EA

The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful console, as it is currently dominating its rivals, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which makes it a desirable platform for developers. But third-party games haven't really been very successful on the Wii, as highlighted by id Software. However, companies are indeed trying...

14 May 2009
13:01 GMT

Former Xbox 360 President Talks About Motion-Sensitive Controls

Peter Moore is now the president of Electronic Arts' Sports label, doing everything he can so that fans will get even more excited about the yearly titles that his company produces. But for those of you who don't know, Moore also acted as the president of Microsoft's Xbox 360 division a few years ago a...

8 May 2009
03:03 GMT

EA Isn't Taking Advantage of the Wii, Says EA Sports President

Electornic Arts is one of the biggest companies currently active in the video game industry, owning a wide variety of labels and development studios around the world, all hard at work developing new and interesting properties while continuing to improve old franchises. But, even though the company has worked very ha...

7 May 2009
02:21 GMT

More EA Sports Games for the Masses

Peter Moore has delivered a speech at the MI6 conference in San Francisco, which is centered on the videogame marketing, showing how the EA Sports brand must grow and adapt in order to continue to be significant in the future. His vision for the company is quite broad, focusing on keeping hardcore sports gamers inter...

10 April 2009
04:58 GMT

Madden NFL 10 Will Hit the Sweet Spot of Graphics, Says Peter Moore

Sports games are always popular because a lot of people want to lead their team to victory over its rivals. That is why the EA Sports label is one of the most profitable ones for Electronic Arts. With yearly franchises like FIFA, Madden NFL or NHL, the division guarantees big sales at the end of each year. We'v...

24 March 2009
16:01 GMT

Wii MotionPlus Will Make People Get Off Their Couches

Gaming has always been considered a hobby for lazy people who don't want to get off their couches or chairs and move around, preferring to do so in the virtual world than the in the real one. But once the Nintendo Wii appeared, introducing never before seen motion sensitive controls, a lot of gamers got off the ...

16 March 2009
16:01 GMT

EA Sports to Learn from World of Goo

World of Goo was the independent break out hit of 2008. The game showed up on a lot of end of the year lists and took home a variety of awards, with some saying that it packed more innovative punch than all the big publisher releases of last year.Launched on the WiiWare service offered by Nintendo and on the PC, Worl...

22 January 2009
03:32 GMT

Peter Moore Is Angry with FIFA 09 Not Making Eurogamer Top

The end of 2008 throughout the beginning of 2009 has been a period of chart making and awarding games for the innovations they brought to the industry. We've seen some charts made by Metacritic, but other sites made their own tops, in which they included some games, and, obviously, left other ones out. It seems...

6 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Peter Moore Talks About Sports Games for the Wii

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest gaming companies out there, having achieved huge profit in the last period of time. This is largely due to the fact that it owns quite a lot of studios developing games on a franchise system, which means that there will always be a fan base for the next Need For Speed game, for e...

4 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Active Will Have Music in It

The fitness game market is definitely on the rise these days, as more and more people find that they don't have the time to go to a real gym, so games like Wii Fit are the best alternative to the daily exercises.Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said recently that the demand for Wii Fit was...

1 December 2008
02:10 GMT

Peter Moore Talks About Nutrition in EA Sports Active

EA Sports is clearly a busy company these days, largely due to the fact that all of the employees are hard at work on the new EA Sports Active project, which promises to take fitness games to a whole new level. Dubbed a Wii Fit killer, the future title will employ new sports routines and exercises that will emphasize...

24 November 2008
13:01 GMT

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Active Might Become a Franchise

Electronic Arts is a company well known for the fact that if it has a successful game, it won't hesitate to make it a franchise, and produce more similar titles, even though they bring very small changes to the original, only to make a quick profit. Yearly franchises like the Need For Speed or the sports ones li...

19 November 2008
13:41 GMT

EA Sports Boss Talks About the Peripherals in EA Sports Active

Fitness games are becoming more and more popular these days, with Nintendo's Wii Fit holding a massive percent of the market and managing record sales in the countries where it has been launched. Seeing the massive success of the Japanese game, Electronic Arts decided that a more Western-oriented title would def...

17 November 2008
02:34 GMT

Peter Moore Talks About the Differences Between Wii Fit and EA Sports Active

We reported yesterday that EA had just announced that it would develop a rival for Nintendo's very popular fitness game Wii Fit, which would be produced by its EA Sports label. The game, which will be cleverly entitled EA Sports Active, will be launched early next year and promises to give players a totally diff...

14 November 2008
11:41 GMT

EA Sports Might Auction Madden Cover Spot for Charity

EA Sports is one of Electronic Arts' biggest divisions, generating massive income with the yearly releases of games based on the most popular sports out there. Be it European soccer, with the FIFA series, or basketball, with the NBA Live franchise, a lot of sports have been marketed by EA. But the most successfu...

28 October 2008
08:31 GMT

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Is Moving to Digital Downloads

Tired of paying the same 60 dollars each year for an EA Sports produced game to just get the same core game mechanics with a coat of extra graphical polish and a roster update? Well, truth be told, the 2009 sports games from Electronic Arts seem to have some nice under the hood changes as well, but the company i...

22 September 2008
18:11 GMT

Peter Moore Talks About Madden NFL 2009

Electronic Arts is estimating that Madden NFL 09 has managed to bring in revenue of more than 133.5 million dollars since it was launched on August 12. There is no clear independent confirmation of the numbers, but the August NPD report should be out any day now to provide us with some data.EA Sports says that this i...

10 September 2008
14:11 GMT

Live Season for FIFA 2009 Detailed

EA Sports has recently announced that it plans to introduce a new update system, called Adidas Live Season, which should bring the characteristics of the in-game players in line with those of real life players. The service will have a subscription price which is not yet determined and will cover the most important le...

26 August 2008
17:58 GMT

Peter Moore Wants the Public Back in E3

EA Sports top man Peter Moore has joined the ranks of those calling for a return to the old way of organizing E3, with visitors allowed to enter the show and watch the games being demoed by developers and publishers.The president of EA Sports did not hold back on the criticism. He said that "There was a palpable sens...

28 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Peter Moore Promotes Online Future

Peter Moore, the current head of EA Sports, who recently commented on the state of PC gaming, is again talking about the future of games, this time focusing on the digital distribution model and on the way social gaming will be taking over from single player experience.The people from GamesIndustry caught up with Moo...

22 July 2008
18:06 GMT

EA Sports Games Have Been too Hard

Peter Moore continues to issue statements regarding the future of EA Sports, maybe the most important division that the gigantic publisher has, and is now talking about how difficult sports games should be in the future.Moore talked to IGN and he stated: "With the 360 and PS3 versions, the real movement you're g...

9 July 2008
10:14 GMT

Peter Moore Explains Why EA Sports Snubs PCs

Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports and former Microsoft corporate vice-president, has updated his official blog, explaining why the company is "against" PC game development. We already had a few hints on that - these are mostly the same reasons why everybody ignores PC systems as game platforms: piracy, piracy and a ...

4 July 2008
13:06 GMT

EA Sports President Talks about Sony Home

The last few days have been inundated with news from the PlayStation Day Europe event and with various statements from Sony regarding matters as diverse as the new PlayTV add-on for the PlayStation 3, the possibility of adding new external hard drives to the console or the strength of the games line-up that Sony has ...

9 May 2008
08:17 GMT

Sony Responds to Moore's Resignation - The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

What do you know? Out of all the electronics giants out there, Sony is the first to say a few words regarding Peter Moore's departure from Microsoft. In case you missed out on the latest and probably one of the hottest of today's news, Microsoft's Corporate Vice-President of Interactive Entertainment B...

18 July 2007
04:16 GMT

Shocking - Microsoft Loses Its Senior VP of IEB - Peter Moore Resigns

Yes, you read that right: Microsoft's Corporate Vice-President of the Interactive Entertainment Business division (including the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles), Peter Moore has resigned from his position with the company. He's not unemployed though (I'm sure at least one person asked himself/herself ...

18 July 2007
03:47 GMT


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