At the end of last year, we saw a lot of lists of best games of the decade. But we didn’t read about the turkeys. The games that really flopped. The games industry’s equivalent of Waterworld. Or...

Electronic Arts’ Q2 announcement yesterday was pretty electrifying: 1,500 jobs lost to save $100 million a year, while also spending $275 million in cash (and up to $400 million in total) to acquire Playfish. Some critics have...

Electronic Arts have announced a further 1,500 job cuts. In the Q2 earnings announcement, EA said: Cost Reduction Plan EA has announced a plan to narrow its product portfolio to provide greater focus on titles with higher...

There’s no smoke without fire, they say, and the rumours of EA’s acquisition of Playfish would have stupefied all the bees in the US (not that there are any left, of course). And today it was confirmed...

The Internet is awash with rumours that Playfish has been acquired by Electronic Arts for $250 million. That’s a steal for EA if it’s true. When a company that is less than two years old is rumoured...

Casualgaming.biz has a thought-provoking article based on recent comments from John Riccitiello. In a leaked internal memo, published by Bloomberg, Riccitiello says that Madden 2010, “one of our highest-rated and best-marketed Madden titles in years” had disappointing...

No one leaves Activision to join a casual or web-gaming business, for the simple the reason that they just don’t get it. EA’s recent weakness is a strength, if only they can stop the brain drain. The...