If only the rest of Electronic Arts’ businesses could be doing so well ... During the company’s earnings call Monday, executives said that the company’s digital business was “growing very rapidly and (is) profitable” (Executives had said during a call last quarter that digital was in fact now the most…

With sales of traditional video games down, Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) continues to look (so far unsuccessfully) for its digital business to make up the gap. The video game giant said that its digital revenue reached an all-time high of $152 million during its third fiscal quarter, up 30 percent…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0308	Net Inc. vs Q0308
Electronic Arts	Release		25%	87%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS)—which continues to try to move its business “beyond the console”—is bringing Madden NFL to Facebook. It isn’t exactly clear what EA has in mind for the Facebook version of its blockbuster video game; EA Sports President Peter Moore tells Bloomberg vaguely that it will be a…

BBC Worldwide has tapped Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) exec Robert Nashak to help build up its gaming offerings as EVP of Digital Entertainment. During the nearly two years he spent at EA, Nashak’s last role was as a VP charged with overseeing the company’s social gaming group. He previously led…

First Take-Two, then GameStop, and now EA. Seems like it wasn’t such a happy holiday season for the video game industry, as Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has become the latest game company to lower guidance in advance of its Q4 earnings report. The company expects GAAP revenue for the quarter…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) CEO John Riccitiello was quite quotable during his UBS Media Week presentation—offering specifics on how EA defines its “digital” business, detailed insights into the company’s layoffs and outsourcing strategies, subtle jabs at Activision’s best-seller Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and even joking about whether Tiger…

Jeremy Liew is a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in the internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, gaming, financial and methods for increasing monetization. He blogs on these topics at lsvp.wordpress.com. In 2009, social gaming exploded onto the…

Yesterday EA announced buying social gaming company Playfish for $275 million upfront (our coverage is here). Now comes more details from an SEC filing by EA. Among those:—$30 million of $275 million is in escrow, a normal occurrence.— Kristian Segerstrale, Sebastien de Halleux and Sami Lababidi, all Playfish senior execs,…

The main reason for EA’s second round of mass layoffs within a single calendar year? The company is extremely bullish on digital. “As we said in previous quarters, we’re narrowing our focus to invest in core hits and digital,” said CEO John Riccitiello, during the company’s Q3 (its fiscal 2010…

Social gaming firm Playfish has been the subject of several acquisition rumours recently - in particular, that Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has already agreed to buy the social-gaming company for $250 million via Alley Insider) and, in another, that Playfish is just playing the field in search of an even…

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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has hired John Schappert, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business, as its new COO. Schappert replaces John Pleasants, who is leaving the company to take the top job at Playdom. At Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Schappert oversaw Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox Live. With…

Would Disney (NYSE: DIS) consider buying Electronic Arts? That’s the suggestion being floated by Heard on the Street’s Martin Peers at the WSJ. With EA’s stock at its lowest point in more than seven years, competitors and other media giants may decide that now is the time to try to…

Jamdat Mobile has filed a lawsuit again Verisign, the parent company of Jamster, alleging name confusion in U.S. Jamster, which launched in U.S. in January, is causing name confusion among customers, said Mitch Lasky, CEO of Jamdat, in its Q2 earnings call today. It is alleging trademark infringement and is…