Tagged: Electronic Arts
In which we are thankful that Ultima is an EA property
Because if Origin Systems had been purchased instead by Ubisoft, this entire site and every fan project and patch on it would have been stopped dead in their collective tracks a long time ago....
EA broke records with their App Store sales in 2010
Just how lucrative is the mobile app market? This lucrative: Electronic Arts is boasting of amazing third quarter sales of its own iOS apps. Joystiq reports that COO John Schappert recently discussed just how...
New video: an Ultima Online demo reel…from 2004!
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this demo reel — which was apparently only ever released internally at Electronic Arts and whatever studio was doing the development (Mythic Entertainment?) — from a second attempt...
The EA/Activision scrap is getting a little absurd (updated)
Those of you who follow the doings in the gaming industry may be aware that Activision and the duo that once headed up Infinity Ward (the originators of the Call of Duty franchise) are...
EA planning to bring the "Madden Curse" to the big screen
We can debate the merits of movies based on video games; I can’t particularly think of any games which have yet made an adequate transition to the silver screen (i.e. which haven’t sucked). And…well…the...
I really get a kick out of this EA/Activision badmouthing…
…so here, for your amusement good Dragons and Dragonettes, is Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello throwing down some fighting words against Vivendi, Activision, and Call of Duty developer Treyarch: “I don’t know that having...
The cat's out of the bag: Mass Effect 3 is coming!
I mean, we already knew it was coming (in that we knew that the Mass Effect series was intended to be a trilogy). But thanks to a happy little slip-up on the EA online...
The "least worst" solution
Ultima fans, unfortunately, can remember a time when a very different EA would have been willing to push “a game riddled with bugs on the eve of release” out the door anyway. If anyone...
