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Earnings: EA Mobile Up 33 Percent Year-On-Year

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has released its second quarter earnings (PaidContent has details) — of interest to the mobile world is that E…

Game Developers Notice Smartphone Market

Mobile game makers are beginning to pay attention to the high-end smartphone market as the segment grows in size. WSJ notes that 3.9 million…

EA, O2, Sony Ericsson On Mobile Games

News.com.au has a piece on the Reuters media summit, focusing on games. On the mobile side, Gerhard Florin, EA’s international publishing he…

Mobile Key To Uniting Game Formats — EA

EA Mobile will spend 2007 finding ways to use mobile handsets to bring together consumers playing titles over mulitple home formats, Javier…

EA Mobile Q4 Earnings — $35 Million

EA has released its earnings for its fourth quarter results — net revenue was $1.281 billion, up one percent as compared with $1.270 billio…

EA Mobile Plans World Domination

I had a chat with EA Mobile about their new line up of games, which the company hopes will extend EA’s market beyond its stronghold of North…

O2 Gives Free EA Games

Mobile Entertainment: British operator O2 and games giant EA have teamed up to offer free games to the carriers customers. Every Monday in D…

Jamdat’s Co-Founders Leaving EA Mobile

Exclusive: All the three main co-founders of Jamdat Mobile (now EA Mobile, since it was bought by EA) are leaving the company, MocoNews.net…

EA Mobile To Develop In Hyderabad, India

EA Mobile (described throughout the article as Jamdat) will start developing games at its Hyderabad office in India.
“So far the Hyderabad c…

Mitch Lasky On Marketing Mobile Games

One good thing about Mitch Lasky giving everyone the impression EA was going to sell mobile games on a third-party site is that via the effo…

EA Mobile: Yes We Do, No We Don’t

So that story about EA Mobile going off deck, and then no-not-doing-it…turns out . well, I’ll let you decide…read this clarification int…

@ MEM: EA VP: Remove The Vampire Publishers

Ed: A bit late in streaming out some remainign coverage from MEM conference held two weeks ago in London
[by Peggy Anne Salz] This was the…

EA, T-Mobile Team Up For World Cup Promotion

T-Mobile and EA have teamed up for a FIFA World Cup promotion: “Special edition Nokia handsets — namely the 6280, 6131 and N70 — will come…

Mobile Is Key To EA’s Asian Expansion

Jon Niermann, the head of Electronic Arts in Asia, has “highlighted mobile gaming, along with online and locally-developed console content,…

Mitch Lasky On EA Mobile

Mitch Lasky (head of EA Mobile) talks about the mobile game business… EA Mobile will do 57,000 stock-keeping units this year — a stock-ke…

Overcoming The Demons Of Mobile

Mitch Lasky, senior VP of mobile at EA and former CEO of Jamdat, has told the GDC conference his ideas of why mobile games are stagnating. “…

Spore & Other EA Brands Go Mobile

EA revealed some games it plans to bring to the mobile market this year at the GDC Mobile conference, running across the core, casual and sp…

EA’s Profits Fall; Not Much on Jamdat Yet

EA’s earnings slumped in the holiday quarter, coming in below analysts’ already lowered expectations. EA earned $259 million, down from the…

EA-Jamdat Deal Gets Regulatory Approval

Electronic Arts’ $680 millio buyout of Jamdat has received approval from U.S. antitrust authorities…The transaction remains subject to var…

Jamdat Tops Table Of Mobile Game Publishers

According to Telephia Jamdat topped the games sales chart in the third quarter of 2005, grabbing 30.6% of the revenue generated by mobile ga…

More Mobile Game Acquisitions To Come

In a short note on analysts at Robert W Baird reducing their “outperform” rating on Jamdat Mobile to $27, the analyst adds: “The deal would…

Indiagames Nabs EA Game Distribution In India

This is pretty big by itself and bigger now in light of the Jamdat acquisition by Electronic Arts… I’m not sure how I managed to overlook…

EA-JMDT: Big Cashout For Apax, Benchmark

The two main remaining investors in Jamdat were Apax Partners and Benchmark Capital (I’m assuming rest of them–Intel Capital, Sun Microsyst…

EA-JMDT: Data On Deck Placement Etc

Some quick data from M:Metrics, on U.S. carrier placement for Jamdat (for October):
— Jamdat’s titles occupy the most premium “deck placeme…

EA’s Build Vs Buy Decision

In the conference call EA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Probst was asked why EA decided to buy into mobile content rather than…

EA-JMDT: Some Thoughts

We were reporting all along about EA’s interest in Jamdat…EA had been sniffing around for almost a year now, but the price and valuation i…

A Brief History Of Jamdat

[by James Pearce] Like most people I expected EA to expand its reach in the mobile game world through acquisitions, and there have been rumo…

M:Metrics: Most Game Promotion Done By Carriers

M:Metrics has found that 90% of people who buy mobile games hear about them from their carriers… From this they infer that companies keen…

Changes & Appointments At Jamdat

Couple of new developments at mobile gaming firm Jamdat:
— Rajiv Dutta, the former-CFO of eBay has relinquished his position on the Jamdat…

Telephia: One In Three Mobile Games Given Away

I caught up with Kanishka Agarwai of Telephia at CTIA, which is showing off its On Device Meter which measures what content people actually…

Jamdat’s Shares Tank

Jamdat Mobile’s shares tanked in Nasdaq trading today, and at the time of this writing, were down 26 percent, following what investors belie…