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NBA Jam Creator Leaves EA Sports for Zynga

Owen Good — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 EDT

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Mark Turmell, the creator of the NBA Jam series that saw a revival last year on modern consoles, has left EA Sports for the social games developer Zynga, Kotaku has learned. More »

Internal Memo Addresses Madden Losses, Lays Out EA Sports' Expansion Plans

Owen Good — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:00:00 EDT

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In an internal memo obtained by IGN, a senior EA Sports executive says the label will soon open a third studio in Texas, and addresses the departures of key developers from its flagship Madden NFL product. More »

A Sworcery-Style Farewell to Electronic Arts

Mike Fahey — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:20:00 EDT

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EA Tiburon online software engineer Ben Burbank quit his job today, but not without leaving a pixelated postcard to the people he met along the way, inspired by iPad adventure game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. More »

EA Sports On NBA Elite: "It Was Just Going To Be A Bad Game"

Owen Good — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST

With NBA Jam on shelves and earning praise (deservedly), EA Sports is being a little more candid about NBA Elite, the canceled title and Jam's original dancing partner. More »

Rumor: EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:30:23 EST

Electronic Arts has taken the ax to hundreds of employees at locations in Burnaby, Orlando and San Francisco today, according to chatter from former EA employees, issuing layoffs the same day it confirms a buyout of social gaming publisher Playfish. More »

Mixed Martial Arts Title, New Shooter In Works At EA?

Brian Crecente — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

Electronic Arts has been on a roll lately, churning out quite a selection of new and innovative titles over the past year. More »

EA Confirms Cuts At Madden Developer

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:20:17 EST

What was rumor yesterday is now fact. Madden NFL, Tiger Woods and NCAA Football games developer EA Tiburon is home to the latest casualties at Electronic Arts, though numbers were not disclosed. More »

EA Sports Pays A Man To Watch Football All Week

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:20:00 EDT

If watching football for a living sounds like your "dream job" then EA Tiburon's Anthony White should be the target of your jealous rage. Of course, White has to watch every single NFL game every single week, so it might sound like utter torture. Regardless of your perspective, it sure beats digging ditches. More »

Madden ‘09 Review: It's Still a W in the Standings

Owen Good — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:40:00 EDT

The 20th edition of gaming’s signature sports simulation sells us a big-tent philosophy — dueling difficulty settings that will level the playing field between lifelong players of Madden football and more casual gamers who just want in on the fun without reading a playbook the size of an encyclopedia. As a business strategy, a more inclusive Madden makes a ton of sense. But that innovation underachieves in single-player mode and, online, it's not much use to advanced players and it seems more to drag out competitions between the equally bad ones. More »

EA Tiburon Employees Are So Crazy

Mike Fahey — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:40:52 EDT

So what do the employees of the development studio responsible for yearly Madden goodness do to let off steam? The same thing most office workers do, only slightly bigger. The Orlando Sentinel has a story on the proud pranking tradition at EA Tiburon, detailing such capers as disassembling and reassembling a golf cart inside of a manager's office, filling a conference room with thousands of dollars worth of plastic balls, suitable for diving, and my personal favorite, brining in a contractor to plaster over a boss's door with drywall so it looks like it never existed. My favorite part of the article is when artist John Taylor explains how the insurance company that shares their office park feels about the pranksters.

"They hate us because we have fun and they don't and their bosses would never put up with the kind of crap we do," Taylor said. "They are all grownups. They are weak. We are cool. They're not."

Ooo, burn! More »