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EA Exec Neil Young Leaves For iPhone Game Start-Up Ngmoco - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 30 Jun 2008 05:06 PM PST

Less than two weeks ago, Neil Young said he was leaving Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), and this week, Newsweek and others are reporting that he’s popping up at San Francisco-based…

EA Mobile May Consider Game Subscriptions In Europe - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 17 Jun 2008 03:49 PM PST

EA Mobile is thinking about launching new business models, such as a mobile-game subscription in Europe, to attract more customers, according to PocketGamer.biz. The plan the company is considering would…

EA’s Acquisition Of Hands-On Korea: $29 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 09:52 AM PST

Last week EA announced its acquisition of the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. At that time, no financial details were released, but…

Electronic Arts Buys Korean Division Of Hands-On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 May 2008 06:25 PM PST

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The Korean division is best known for its mobile…

@ CTIA Wire: Day One: Guitar Hero-Blackberry; CondeNet-Verizon; Disney-Mobi; MobiConnect; WaveMarket - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 01 Apr 2008 12:29 PM PST

-- Guitar Hero III Mobile will rock your BlackBerrry: Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has partnered with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI), Inc. to bring Research in Motion’s (NSDQ: RIMM) (RIM) Guitar Hero III…

Earnings: Glu Mobile’s Q4 Losses Down On Higher Revs - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 11 Feb 2008 04:05 PM PST

Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), the mobile game publisher that went public in March and is known for titles such as Super K.O. Boxing! and Brain Genius, reported a Q4 net…

Earnings: EA’s Mobile Revenues Up Slightly - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Feb 2008 08:40 PM PST

Video game maker Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) reported revenue of $1.5 billion in its critical quarter ending December 31, up 17 percent year-on-year from $1.28 billion. But the company swung…

Consumers Complain They Can’t Find Mobile Games - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 25 Jan 2008 05:28 AM PST

One of the big concerns to emerge out of the Mobile Gaming Forum held the last couple of days in London was how to reach consumers. In a consumer panel…

Round Up: Los Huevos Moviles; Kajeet; CNNMoney.com; QD3 - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 03 Dec 2007 04:28 PM PST

-- HuevoCartoons are going mobile: You may not have heard of them, but in Mexico Los Huevos are huge, and worldwide the spanish-language cartoon claims a fan base of over…

EA CEO Blames Mobile Game Makers Ignoring Smartphones For Slow Down - 4 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 29 Nov 2007 11:01 PM PST

The slowdown in the mobile games market is due to the companies in the industry ignoring smartphones, according to EA CEO John Riccitiello, reports Reuters. “Interestingly enough, and I’ll never…

Earnings: EA Mobile Rev Up 6 Percent; Full Year Estimate Down 11 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 01 Nov 2007 03:20 PM PST

EA released its Q307 earnings, reporting that its mobile business brought in $37 million for the quarter, up 6 percent year-on-year. Although it had top-selling games in NA and the…

Industry Moves: EA Mobile Names Ex-Voda Exec Tim Harrison EU Marketing Director - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 22 Aug 2007 01:50 AM PST

Electronic Arts’ mobile division in Europe has hired former Vodafone games boss Tim Harrison as its director or marketing, reports Mobile Entertainment. Harrison had worked with industry standards body OMTP…

EA Teams Up With Hasbro For Digital Games; Exclusive Until 2013 - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 10 Aug 2007 11:26 AM PST

Electronic Arts has signed an exclusive deal with Hasbro which will let EA “create electronic versions of Monopoly, Scrabble and an array of other Hasbro board games and toys” through…

Game Developers Notice Smartphone Market - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 08 Aug 2007 09:21 PM PST

Mobile game makers are beginning to pay attention to the high-end smartphone market as the segment grows in size. WSJ notes that 3.9 million smartphones and mobile PDAs were shipped…

Industry Moves: EA Mobile’s New Head; Transpera; Amp’d Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Aug 2007 05:26 PM PST

-- EA has appointed Barry Cottle as SVP and GM of EA Mobile, heading all of the mobile business worldwide. EA Mobile falls under the recently formed label EA Casual…

Earnings: EA’s Mobile Revenues Flat For Q2; THQ’s Mobile Revs Decrease - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 01 Aug 2007 05:50 PM PST

Electronic Arts reported its Q207 revenues today, and not much on its mobile division, except for basic revenue numbers: its Q2 revenues came in flat at $33 million, same as…

Game Companies Agree To Launch Games On Operators Simultaneously - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 30 May 2007 01:48 AM PST

Four major mobile game companies—EA, Gameloft, Glu and I-play—have agreed to release their games across all UK operators on the same day. The deal was brokered by the UK video…

EA, O2, Sony Ericsson On Mobile Games - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 20 May 2007 11:26 PM PST

News.com.au has a piece on the Reuters media summit, focusing on games. On the mobile side, Gerhard Florin, EA’s international publishing head, said that the revenue prospects for mobile gaming…

Earnings: Electronic Arts Q1 Revenues Fall 4.4 Percent, Mobile Revenues Increase 140 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 May 2007 03:26 PM PST

Video game marketer Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) did not score high for its full-year 2006 results, nor its first quarter (last financial quarter) results. For the first quarter ending March…

Interview: Mitch Lasky, General Partner, Benchmark Capital: Bullish On Location More Than Search - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 20 Mar 2007 02:58 PM PST

I spoke to Mitch Lasky, the former CEO of Jamdat and till recently the head of EA Mobile...we broke the news about his leaving last week and it was formally…

Industry Moves: Michael Marchetti to Lead EA Mobile; Lasky Joins Benchmark - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 Mar 2007 09:50 PM PST

Updated below on Lasky As I hinted last week, EA Mobile has a new head, as Mitch Lasky prepares to leave. Starting April 2, Michael Marchetti will become SVP and…

EA Mobile Launches Sports Service; Community Aspirations; When’s Mitch Leaving? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 Mar 2007 01:25 PM PST

Electronic Arts has launched EA Sports Link, a mobile site that connects EA Sports game fans with news about games and sports, and will eventually host an EA Sports community.…

Mobile Key To Uniting Game Formats—EA - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 Mar 2007 04:29 PM PST

EA Mobile will spend 2007 finding ways to use mobile handsets to bring together consumers playing titles over mulitple home formats, Javier Ferreira, VP of European publishing for EA Mobile,…

@ 3GSM: EA, Real Pan Networks Over Mobile Game Carriage - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 15 Feb 2007 08:44 AM PST

Carriers must get better at retail if mobile gaming is to become a mainstream entertainment medium, mobile games makers said at 3GSM. RealNetworks’ Europe mobile games director Gunnar Larsen said…

EA Mobile Q4 Earnings—$35 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 01 Feb 2007 06:08 PM PST

EA has released its earnings for its fourth quarter results—net revenue was $1.281 billion, up one percent as compared with $1.270 billion for the prior year. Digital revenue is a…