Electronic Arts inc.

Electronic Arts

What type of company are they?

Electronic arts are both a publisher and a developer because they help develop a lot of games or create them completely such as more recent games like FIFA, NBA and madden. They also have many partnerships with a lot of different producer company's and help them publish their games or get them to help them develop and improve current games. Such as companies like Dice have partnered with EA because they help create a lot of hype around a new release of the game such as battlefield 1 due to how big of a company EA is.

The history of EA

EA is an american video game company that is situated in Redwood city, California and was first founded on may 28, 1982 by a man called Trip Hawkins. The company was a pioneer of the early computer games industry and was notable for promoting and developing many of the designers and programmers behind the games. The company began developing in house games and first supported by consoles in the early 1990's. EA later then grew through purchases of multiple successful developers. By the early 2000's,EA decided to move towards direct distribution on digital games and services with the acquisition of a very popular gaming website called pogo.com in 2001. EA had grown to become one of the worlds leading third-party publishers. On may 4th, 2011 EA had reported a $3.8 billion in revenues for the year ending march, and then in the following year on January 13th the company had exceeded $1 billion in digital sales. And then in 2011 EA launched Origin. An online service to sell downloadable games directly to users, there is also a "on the house feature" that allows you to download full versions of some EA games for free. This site is also used for multiple big titles games for the function to play online and interact with friends, such as FIFA with the online aspect and battlefield with the battle-log feature. After sega had published the successful title of ESPN NFL 2K5 had grabbed all the attention away from EA's dominant madden games in the early 2004, EA decided to make multiple large sports licensing deals that included an exclusive one with the NFL. EA's success is due to it being one of the first companies to release sports games such as Madden, FIFA, NFL, NBA live and tiger woods.

What games have they produced?

The big games EA have produced would definitely be the sports genre games. The first one would be Madden because this was the first major sports game released and was an instant hit. At the time this was the biggest sport game around. They then published and created a lot of different sport games such as FIFA. FIFA is still a huge hit today and remains as the biggest selling football game outselling its rival pes with the most recent game by 40 times more. They also released NBA which has no rival and sells extremely successful every year due to the amount of people that love NBA and cant play it anywhere else really.

What are they like to work for?

A couple of reviews from previous workers i found online:

The deal is: employees also get a lot out of working for EA. I did, at least. There are lots of very talented people at EA, and (usually) opportunity to ‘craft’ your own career. Working on blockbuster titles, for the latest consoles, is fun stuff. Hardcore engineers (like me) love having access to the equipment – and the opportunity to make significant contributions to a high-profile product. 

EA has the coolest and some of the smartest bunch of employees I've seen at any Silicon Valley/Bay Area company. This is also true for employees at other offices (but I can't speak to how they compare locally). If you're an outgoing, young person, you'll make a lot of great friends that are smart, fun, and hard working. You won't make much money, but that's ok.

How is the company perceived?

EA are perceived very badly because for numerous years in a row they got nominated the worst company in america by Forbes. The review from the actual article is linked here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-again/#724400d816d2

Who works at the company and whats their role?


Andrew Wilson- CEO
Ken Barker- SVP, Chief accounting officer
Chris Bruzzo- Chief marketing officer
Blake J Jorgensen- CFO
Joel Linzner- Executive vice president
Laura Miele- Executive vice president
Peter Moore- Chief competition officer
Ken Moss- CFO
Samantha Ryan- SVP, Ea mobile, maxis
Jacob Schatz- SVP, General Counsel, Corporate secretary
Patrick Soderlund- Executive Vice president,
Gabrielle Toledano- Executive vice president, Chief talent officer