Electronic Arts acquired Industrial Toys studio, specializing in the development of mobile games for gamers (for enthusiastic players – approx.). The studio was founded by Alex Seropian, who participated in the development of the Halo, Myth and Marathon game series.

The mobile version of the popular The Sims franchise generated over $15 million in 4 months after its release. The source of income was the in-game purchases of users on iOS and Android. The global release of The Sims Mobile took place on March 6, 2018.

On June 9, at 21.00 Moscow time, the first large-scale presentation of E3 2018 took place. It was conducted by Electronic Arts. In our article there is a short story about what one of the main players in the gaming market showed.

The Belgian authorities demanded that Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard and Valve remove loot boxes from a number of popular online titles. Otherwise, the largest gaming companies face fines of up to €800 thousand.

The creators of the Battlefield shooter series are testing the “battle royale” mode for the last part of Battlefield V. This was told to the Venture Beat edition by DICE studio employees on condition of anonymity.

Patrick Soderlund, Executive vice President of Electronic Arts, said that the company “cannot afford” the mistakes they made with the loot box system in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. This concerns the future of the MMO thriller Anthem and other projects of the company.

Paid loot boxes will disappear from the online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront II. The remaining boxes with random loot will be issued for game achievements and contain only cosmetic items and game credits, according to the publisher of the game Electronic Arts.

According to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, at least 35% of players make in-game purchases in the Ultimate Team modes of EA Sports games.

People with a penchant for gambling should not be allowed to the loot boxes, says a Reddit user with the nickname Kensgold. He told how he spent more than $10 thousand over the past two years on game content. He managed to break with addiction only thanks to a psychotherapist.

Linear gameplay is no longer as popular with players as it was 5 or 10 years ago, according to Electronic Arts CEO Blake Jorgensen. He said this at the last Credit Suisse media conference in Arizona.

Criticism of the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II hit not only the reputation, but also the capitalization of Electronic Arts. The company lost $3.1 billion in market value when its shares fell by 8.5% since the beginning of the month.

Electronic Arts is boycotting again, this time by FIFA 18 fans. Sportssim fans launched the #FixFIFA campaign with an appeal not to buy the game on sale on the occasion of “Black Friday” until the developers fix their mistakes.

The story with the loot boxes continues. Two representatives of the Hawaiian House of Representatives of the United States are considering banning the sale of Star Wars Battlefront II to children.

The initial sales of physical copies of the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II turned out to be 60% worse than the figures of the first part, released in 2015.

Electronic Arts Corporation temporarily disabled microtransactions in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II a few hours before the world release of the game after a scandal due to the presence of loot boxes and calls for a boycott of the game.

The Gaming Commission of the Belgian government has launched an investigation into the online shooters Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Overwatch. She can equate both titles to gambling because of the presence of loot boxes in them.

Electronic Arts Corporation is thinking about transferring the largest FIFA and Madden NFL sports franchises from annual releases to a subscription system, and maybe even about transferring the games themselves to the cloud.

Electronic Arts Corporation will not release games on the Nintendo Switch console yet. EA has postponed the final decision on this issue until March 2018.

Ex-BioWare employee Manveer Heir (Manveer Heir) believes that the Electronic Arts publishing house, in pursuit of gaming profits, forgot about the desires and needs of gamers.