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EA to Pay $680 Mil for Jamdat Mobile
EA Corporate Headquarters Last new years I predicted that EA would shell out a billion for another game company. I’m saying that their purchase of Jamdat Mobile is close enough to count as a score. Notice I also predicted a griefer attack that took out the SL grid. I’m just wiping the floor with Cory [...]
Full StoryEA Settles One Overtime Suit
According to the Associated Press Today, EA has settled one of the pending class action law suits against it for allegedly failing to pay overtime. They paid $15.6 million to the computer graphic artists. The suit with the engineers is still pending. Meanwhile, here is a nice cartoon.
Full StoryBig Babies and Strange Sims
OK, Jack Thompson is turning up his offensive on EA for Sims 2 mods. Earlier we reported his statement in Gamespot that Sims 2 is “worse than hot coffee” and subsequent to that we posted his letter to the attorney at EA (copied to Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman etc). In his latest missive he has [...]
Full StoryEA Gets Jacked! Naughty Mod Scandal Goes Nucular [sic]
Ohhh baby, you *know* how much the Herald hates to say we told you so… well ok, we rather like it…but this one is particularly delicious. The Herald has come into possession of the following letter written by anti-video game activist and attorney Jack Thompson to the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary (and VP, but [...]
Full StoryJack Thompson: “Sims II is Worse than Hot Coffee!!!!”
Just yesterday we were predicting that “the other shoe tree” would drop on EA in the wake of major media discovering dirty mods. Today it is not only dropping, but it looks like a full-on Imelda Marcos shoe tree full of trouble. Gamespot is reporting that Miami Attorney and anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson has taken [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown is “Bastard of the Week”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Our good friend Jeff Brown (VP for corporate communications at EA) has scored the uncoveted “Bastard of the Week” award from Offshoring Digest. Not sure if there is an Orwell Newspeak Prize, but if there is he’s a lock to get that one too.
Full StoryThe Other Shoe Drops: Insider Selling at EA is Followed by 13% Stock Drop — Stockholders Sue
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown: “we intend to vigorously defend the company.” Well, as much as it just kills us to say we told you so, we told you so. Several weeks ago we reported that several EA executives were dumping shares of EA stock. Insider trading? Jeff Brown said no, which [...]
Full StoryGame Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges
If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Simulating Free Speech In Virtual Lives
“If Peter Ludlow is a journalist,then I’m a railroad tycoon whenever I play Monopoly.”– Jeff Brown, Electronic Arts – Vice President for Corporate Communications Neal Stewart comments on Eric Goldman’s draft paper ‘Speech Showdowns at the Virtual Corral’, where under-age cyber-prostitutes, free-speech, corporate censorship – and our very own Urizenus Sklar – are the topic [...]
Full StoryBada Bing! EA Exec gets EA endowed Chair At USC
EA Founder and CEO, Bada Bing Gordon Wowzers, no sooner do I post the story about 7 EA execs suddenly dumping stock in EA (NOT insider trading, we are assured), but a friend points me to this article — Wire: Bing Takes A Chair At USC! It seems that EA has endowed a chair in [...]
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