Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has made headlines at quite a few intervals this year, his latest foray into the news surrounding an estimation of how much of an impact digital games are making on overall industry sales. In a recent interview with Reuters, Riccitiello also discussed the recent boost gaming has received thanks to […]
Soccer has once again proved itself the world’s most popular sport. Electronic Arts has recently announced that the sales for this year’s installment into it’s long running FIFA series have seen a 25% increase over the same fiscal period last year. The EA Sports title FIFA 10 has now sold over 4.5 million units since […]
Not coming as a surprise to anyone, but last weekend’s “Black Friday” shopping spree in the States brought huge surges in console purchases for both Sony and Nintendo. The Big N recently reported that over 1 million DS/DSi units were sold over the weekend, beating the all-time handheld record of the same weekend previously set […]
Sadly giving more credence to the Mature Wii Game Curse, Electronic Arts’ and Visceral Games’ Dead Space Extraction managed only 9,000 units in the month of September, according to NPD’s sales charts. With EA on record as saying that the game’s release was a “test for mature content on Nintendo’s platform,” the game’s poor sales […]