Electronic Arts is closing their EA Casual label and merging it with its label dedicated to the sims, according to a report yesterday on Kotaku. In addition, EA Casual President Kathy Vrabeck will be resigning from the company as well.
We’ve learned a lot about casual entertainment in the past two years, and found that casual [...]

I’m old. Seriously, it’s been 10 years since I first reviewed Medal of Honor on the PS1 for my crappy little fanzine no one ever heard of. That 10 year span is now being celebrated to make me feel older with a PC compilation of all the versions of the franchise released for the PC. [...]

Remember back when Microsoft paid Rockstar $50 million for the exclusive rights to Grand Theft Auto IV’s downloadable content (which we’re still waiting for)? Well, Sony has borrowed that idea for the upcoming EA release Mirrors Edge. Unfortunately, no numbers were divulged, but one can assume it was a whole lot less than $50 million [...]

Electronic Arts interest in acquiring Take-Two has been in the public eye almost since day one back in April, but now the action will be moving behind closed doors. According to recent article o Reuters, the two companies have signed a confidentiality agreement to continue with private talks about the possible deal.
“As a result, EA [...]

Electronic Arts’ acquisition attempts of Take-Two have appeared to die down for the moment, but if it goes forward Uncle Sam is cool with it. U.S. antitrust authorities revealed today that they would approve the deal if it went through, according to letters on the FTC’s web site.
“Upon further review of this matter, it now [...]

In a day full of announcements for EA games, the best was arguably saved for last as the company announced tonight new publishing deals with Epic Games and Grasshopper Manufacture under their EA Partners brand.
The first of the deals is with Epic Games, with the company confirming that their People Can Fly studio in Poland [...]

Electronic Arts announced their preliminary financial results for the first quarter of their fiscal 2009 year this afternoon. For the period ending on June 30, the company’s net revenue was $804 million, up $409 million from the previous year.
“We are now seeing the early returns of the change agenda we started last year,” said John [...]

Despite not even having a full version of the game out yet in retail, EA’s Spore Creature Creator is hitting it off big with gamers as the company announced earlier tonight that over 250,000 creatures have already been made utilizing the free downloadable version of the service.

“The response to the Spore Creature Creator has been [...]

The estate of Godfather creator Mario Puzo has filed a lawsuit againts Paramount Pictures over revenues for the 2006 video game adaptation of the franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Currently being represented by Puzo’s son Mario, the estate is claiming that Paramount breached a contract made in 1992, which gave Paramount the licensing rights for [...]

Electronic Arts announced this morning a new map pack for Army of Two. Dubbed the Veteran Map Pack, the new pack will come with two new co-op campaign maps in addition to an “enhanced” multiplayer map. Thanks to being sponsored by Pontiac, the Veteran Map Pack will be free of charge when it becomes available [...]