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Electronic Arts, which makes such games as Madden NFL and Apex Legends, said today that it plans to lay off five percent of its employees and will discontinue work on several games.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Electronic Arts is rethinking its approach to its long-running, free-to-play first-person shooter “Apex Legends” following soft monetization results for the live-services game’s most recent update and changes to its Battle Pass offering. “In the quarter, Season 22 of ‘Apex Legends’ launched with significantly more new features for casual and seasoned players alike, including more modes, a new map and new anti-cheat software,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson said on a company fiscal second-quarter 2025 earnings call Tuesday.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “The Sims 4″ added more than 15 million players over the past year, Electronic Arts reported Tuesday in its latest quarterly earnings report, just ahead of the life-simulation game’s release of its new “Life & Death” expansion pack Thursday. The video game publisher also touted that it expects its “Madden” and “College Football” franchises to cross a combined $1 billion in sales by the end of its current fiscal year next March.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Video game giant Electronic Arts (EA) is “not anticipating any significant short-term impact” to the company’s titles as a result of the current SAG-AFTRA strike against major gaming publishers. “We deeply value our talented actors who are an important part of the work we do to deliver the incredible entertainment experiences that our players enjoy around the world,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson said during the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “EA Sports College Football 25″ drew a record-breaking 5 million unique players during its first week of availability, up from the 2.2 million that had joined the live-services game for early access by its July 19 release date. Electronic Arts (EA) announced the impressive stats for the new title in its fiscal first-quarter 2025 earnings report Tuesday, where the video game giant also noted that 500,000 users played the game via EA Play’s trial option.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Electronic Arts is laying off 5% of its workforce, making it the latest video game company to enact staffing reductions in the first quarter of the year. In its most recent annual SEC filing, “The Sims” and “Madden” maker EA reported it employed 13,400 workers, meaning the layoffs will affect approximately 670 jobs.

After the rather intense subject matter of THE IMPOSTER and KILLER JOE, the World Premiere of Benjamin Pascoe’s roller derby documentary LEAVE IT ON THE TRACK was a welcome change of mood.With enough shots of backsides to challenge MAGIC MIKE, the film focuses on the love-hate bond between the women on and off the track while constantly reminding us that this sport is sisterhood epitomised.There are a lot of laughs to be had in the lead-up to the championship bout between the undefeated Cherry Bombs and their competitors, The Hellcats, but you never truly appreciate or experience it the way the fans do, leaving it a little lacklustre. But this doesn’t stop it from being incredibly real, with the amount of broken bones and tears disturbingly tangible at times.As we are introduced to different members of the League, we are gently and concisely taught the rules of roller derby without ever getting confused and discovering the backgrounds and talents of these headstrong girls.

‘Barbie’ Leads UK Home Entertainment Charts 

Two teens have been charged in connection with an incident in Elgin that left a man fighting for her life. A 25-year-old man was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries after being knocked to the ground in the high street area of the town at around 10.45pm on Sunday, April 30.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Electronic Arts will cut 6% of its headcount, amounting to about 800 jobs, and reduce its office space, the company announced. The video game company, whose popular titles include “Madden NFL,” “EA Sports FIFA 23,” “Apex Legends” and “The Sims,” is restructuring to focus on “strategic priorities,” CEO Andrew Wilson said in a memo distributed to employees Wednesday. “As we drive greater focus across our portfolio, we are moving away from projects that do not contribute to our strategy, reviewing our real estate footprint, and restructuring some of our teams,” Wilson said in the memo.

Hiran Abeysekera, who won the 2022 Best Actor Olivier Award for his performance of the title character in the London stage production of Lolita Chakrabarti’s Life of Pi, will lead the Broadway cast when the play arrives at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre next month.

The popular holiday fixture had a party atmosphere in the pre-match packed clubhouse.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson has shared that Call Of Duty becoming an Xbox-exclusive series would be a “tremendous opportunity” for EA’s Battlefield series.As Microsoft‘s acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, the purchase has come under scrutiny over the possibility of Microsoft potentially making Call Of Duty an Xbox-exclusive. While Microsoft says it will continue to launch Call Of Duty on PlayStation, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan has slammed Microsoft’s three-year offer as “inadequate on many levels.” Speaking at last week’s Communacopia + Technology conference (via Gamespot), Wilson addressed the speculation surrounding Call Of Duty‘s future.“In a world where there may be questions over the future of Call Of Duty and what platforms that might be on or might not be on, being platform agnostic and completely cross-platform with Battlefield, I think is a tremendous opportunity,” reflected Wilson.However, Wilson also acknowledged that EA’s latest Battlefield releases haven’t lived up to players’ expectations. “I don’t think we delivered in the last two iterations of that in the way that we should have,” said Wilson.

Girvan are this week looking for a new boss after Matt Maley's resignation.

EA has said that Skate will launch as a free-to-play game to help it cater to both Gen Z and Gen Alpha players.This comes from the EA earnings call that took place earlier this month, where the company was asked why it moved the Skate franchise from the company’s typical “premium plus live service” releases to a free-to-play model.“When we look at Skate, I think what happened is our ambitions have continued to grow,” said EA CEO Andrew Wilson. “So as we thought about that, we really took a step back and evaluated how best we deliver that.

EA has announced a playtest for Skate 4, set to take place next month. The email confirming the news was sent to players registered for EA’s Playtesting community, and has since been shared online.EA first revealed that it would be bringing back its beloved skateboarding series Skate in 2020, with game director Deran Chung saying “we’ve been waiting years, honestly, to make the right game at the right time with the right idea.

EA boss Andrew Wilson has received a hefty pay cut, reducing his annual pay from roughly £32.5million ($39.2million) down to £16.2million ($19.9million).The report comes from the publication Axios, which spotted the company filing detailing the pay reduction. Despite the cut, Axios states the pay is “still within the stratosphere of executives of multibillion-dollar corporations.”This comes on the heels of reports last year that EA would be making substantial changes to executive pay due to negative feedback from shareholders.

The Association Of Motion Picture Sound, the UK body representing more than 550 professionals in the fields of film, TV and game sound, has responded to AMPAS’s decision to remove the Best Sound Oscar from its live broadcast.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson has reportedly claimed that the company has been “impeded” by the FIFA brand.During an internal company meeting in November, Wilson stated that the FIFA license had been “an impediment” to EA’s plans for the series. That’s according to anonymous comments provided to VGC. Supposedly, Wilson claimed that FIFA had prevented EA from expanding its games into modes away from traditional 11vs11.Wilson went as far to say that the only value EA got from the license in a non-World Cup year was “four letters on the front of the box”.

EA has declined to disclose sales figures for Battlefield 2042, with the company describing the sales as “disappointing.”Battlefield 2042 has widely been regarded as a disappointment by fans and critics alike. And EA’s most recent investor call (as transcribed by SeekingAlpha) suggests that that has resulted in the game not performing well.

EA has declared that NFT and blockchain games are “the future of our industry”.In the earnings call and as first spotted by PCGamer, EA CEO Andrew Wilson explained that NFT and play-to-earn games are the “future”.He noted that “I think that in the context of the games we create and the live services that we offer, collectible digital content is going to play a meaningful part in our future.” He followed that up by admitting it was “still early to tell” how things would change.