Category:Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts
Founded	1982
Founder(s)	Trip Hawkins
Located	Redwood City, California, USA
Website	http://www.ea.com
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Electronic Arts (EA) is a United States based international developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games. Originally, EA was a home computing game publisher. In the late 1980s, the company began developing games in-house and supported consoles by the early 1990s. EA later grew via acquisition of several successful developers. By the early 2000s, EA had become one of the world's largest third-party publishers. In 2007 EA ranked 8th on the list of largest software companies in the world. In May 2008, the company reported net annual revenue of US$4.02 billion in fiscal year 2008. Currently, EA's most successful products are sports games published under its EA Sports label, games based on popular movie licenses and games from long-running franchises like Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, The Sims, Battlefield and the later games in the Burnout and Command & Conquer series.

[edit] Labels

The following are the four Electronic Arts labels, with the studios that fall under each label:

• EA Games: Home to the largest number of studio and development teams, this label is responsible for action-adventure, role playing, racing and combat games, marketed under the EA brand. In addition to traditional packaged-goods games, EA Games also develops massively-multiplayer online role-playing games.
  • EA Redwood Shores (Headquarters)
  • EA Los Angeles
  • EA Montreal
  • BioWare
  • EA Digital Illusions CE
  • Pandemic Studios
  • EA Black Box
  • Maxis
  • EA Phenomic
  • Criterion Games
  • Mythic Entertainment
• EA Sports: Publishes all the realistic, casual, and freestyle sports-based titles from EA, including FIFA Soccer, Madden NFL, Fight Night, NBA Live, NCAA Football, NCAA March Madness, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, NHL Hockey, NASCAR and Rugby.
  • EA Tiburon (Florida)
  • EA Canada (Vancouver)
  • EA Sports Big (San Francisco)
• EA Casual Entertainment: Creates and publishes casual games for gamers and non-traditional gamers. Includes EA's Pogo online service Pogo.com (online games site, with numerous EA brand tie-ins), EA Hasbro, and EA Mobile (mobile phone and iPod games, previously JAMDAT).
• The Sims: develops and markets life-simulation games and online communities, including those with "Sims" titles.