Tag Archives : Electronic Arts

The announcement of quarterly results for U.S. video game publishers, next week will give investors an idea about the consumer confidence before Christmas. The games industry expects a signal of a catalyst to boost the sector and remove it from the doldrums. Shares of Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts and THQ were below the average market performance [...]

A survey of SharePost Inc. (a company specializing in the exchange of shares between companies) indicated that Zynga, the creators of games such as social Farmville and Mafia Wars, already has a market value greater than Electronic Arts, one of the most traditional developers Video game world and responsible for series such as FIFA, Medal Of Honor, [...]

You may have seen many rumors about super acquisitions in the technology world that have not passed it, rumors, but if the buzz that went through the internet today is confirmed, we will see in the coming months the explosion of one of the biggest bombs in history. With 51 billion dollars in cash, it took Steve Jobs declares during a conference last [...]

The security company NuCaptcha is to accommodate digital advertising system in a CAPTCHA (routines for verification of identity and authenticity) that uses video and makes more difficult the use of programs that seek to pierce this protection. Typically, the CAPTCHA box displays a static image with two words written with characters whose reading is [...]

The 1st person shooter game series Medal of Honor allows the player to be a Taliban soldier in multiplayer mode, and even before its release in October, has raised controversy. The U.S. network Fox News has presented the views of a mother whose son was killed in combat in Iraq on the new game from Electronic Arts. “Families buried their children [...]

The approximately 6000 former members of the NFL – National Football League, the football league in the U.S. – filed a lawsuit last week against Electronic Arts, claiming use of their images without permission or compensation. The images of the players are used in historical games, of course, the game Madden NFL ’09. According to [...]

Focus in the games may be the way for Google to join the arena of social networks, as the online search giant tries to overcome a series of unsuccessful initiatives that left on the sidelines of this booming market. While the Facebook dominates the social networking market, industry experts say Google has a strong position to play more important role, [...]

It seems only a matter of time before watching “Clash of the Titans” between Google and Facebook. The latest indication of the closeness of this battle is the news that Google is negotiating with major companies developing games for a space of social media competitor to Facebook, which recently reached the milestone of 500 million users. Among [...]

If you are the type that does not lose a game in the World Cup, take a look at FIFA Online. The game takes you to the lawn without spending a penny: it is completely free. The game runs on the browser itself with the help of a plugin with a size of about 1GB. Video cards become entirely dispensable for the game, which is lightweight when compared to [...]

Legendary Pictures, the studio that produced the recent Batman films, 300 and Watchmen, this week acquired the film rights to bring Mass Effect to the big screen. The game, created by Canadian producer BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, offers various issues to be explored in a feature film, as imperialism, individualism or question “man versus [...]