Electronic Arts and ESPN Sign 15-Year Deal to Sell Games
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Electronic Arts, hoping to shore up its eroding dominance in the sports video game market, signed a deal giving it the exclusive right to use the ESPN brand in games.
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Electronic Arts Inc. ERTS.O on   Thursday said "Madden NFL 07" turned in the best first-week   performance in the 17-year history of the football video game   series with unit sales topping 2 million.
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Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has signed a deal with Electronic Arts which will see the giant publisher taking on the creation of videogames based on the forthcoming Batman Begins, which is tipped to be one of the biggest movies of next summer.
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LEIPZIG, Germany  - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s XBox video game system will team up with software maker Electronic Arts Inc...
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US games giant EA is to buy two video game studios in a deal that adds role-playing titles to its portfolio.
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"Madden NFL 2005," the latest  version of Electronic Arts Inc.'s ERTS.O  pro football video  game franchise, sold more than 1.3 million copies in its first  week of release, the company said on Thursday, citing internal  figures.
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Electronic Arts Inc , the  video game publisher, said on Thursday it reached a deal to  form a strategic partnership with IMG, the sports and  entertainment marketing firm.
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Electronic Arts Inc. , the world's biggest video game publisher, said on Thursday it had struck deals with two in-game advertising providers, taking its first steps into the online advertising business.
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Video-game software giant Electronic Arts (ERTS:Nasdaq - news - research) plans to take a 19.9% stake in French rival Ubisoft. The investment will come through a block purchase of Ubisoft shares from Talpa Beheer BV.
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Electronic Arts Inc.  , the world's biggest video game publisher, on Tuesday  began selling "Madden NFL 07," the newest title in its  best-selling sports series, which year in and year out has  delivered top-performing games.
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Mobile communications company Nokia and game developer Electronic Arts have inked a collaboration deal that will see EA becoming a major supplier of games for Nokia mobile devices.
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Electronic Arts (EA) began the summer by pledging at June&#8217;s Worldwide Developers Conference to bring six A-list games to the Mac platform. But the world&#8217;s largest independent game publisher was pursuing other opportunities with Apple long before that.
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By Bloomberg News. Electronic Arts, a maker of video games, said yesterday that it bought 19.9 percent of a French competitor, Ubisoft Entertainment, the maker of games based on Tom Clancy novels.
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Game publisher's purchase of a chunk of rival Ubisoft caps a year of aggressive business moves.
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Aether Systems Inc., a Maryland wireless data company that is selling off its operating units, said Wednesday it received a $30 million offer for a division it had already agreed to sell to another buyer for $25 million. -The Washington Post
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Electronic Arts, the leading maker of sports video games, signed an exclusive five-year contract with the National Football League and the NFL Players Association, deals that will give the
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15-year exclusive deal with ESPN ensures Electronic Arts' dominance in sports video games.