The most glaring indictment of the Wii U's poor performance to date is the fact that FIFA—one of the biggest-selling franchises worldwide, in any genre—is publishing for everything but Wii U. FIFA 14 will come out on the PSP. It will publish on the original Wii. There'll be a version on the PS Vita, for god's sake.

The E3 gaming expo is underway, and there are already a ton of animated GIFs, all reacting to the various press conferences. We have gathered some of the most hilarious ones.

EA Sports' UFC game will launch in Spring 2014 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game will feature something called "full body deformation," which will show, in visceral detail, the effects of being punched, kicked, and choked out.

Back under new management, EA Sports' beleaguered NBA Live series will return late this year only on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game promises a new ballhandling and dribbling engine called "bounceTek" that you can see in this video.

Electronic Arts' racing franchise will debut on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with Need for Speed Rivals under the Frostbite engine. It will be built by Ghost Games, working in partnership with Criterion, which handled 2010's Hot Pursuit and 2012's Most Wanted reboot.

Earlier this month, publisher EA made the decision to stop offering controversial "online passes" with its upcoming games. It's now getting rid of them for its older games, too.

One of the first publishers to dabble in the idea of an "online pass" - whereby gamers were charted a fee for accessing certain online content if they purchased a title pre-owned - has decided to do away with the program.

Despite big layoffs in other areas, publisher Electronic Arts is opening a brand new office in Los Angeles for Battlefield developers DICE, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Andrew Wilson, the man in charge of EA Sports and newly in command of Electronic Arts' Origin digital distribution service, sold all of his shares in the company on Thursday, cashing out for about $687,000.