Since 2003, Albert has also been providing the play-by-play voice on the NBA Live video-game series on EA Sports, a role he fulfilled until NBA Live 10.

Mario series characters have also made cameos in games from other series such as SSX on Tour and NBA Street V3, both published by EA Sports.

Knockout Kings is a series of boxing games that were produced by EA Sports for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Color and GameCube yearly between 1998 and 2003.

* EA Tiburon, makers of the popular Madden NFL series and NCAA Football series

It was published by Electronic Arts ( EA ) and developed by series creator Maxis, a wholly owned subsidiary of EA.

" Phat Planet " was also used in the animated television series Beast Machines, the simulation racing games F1 2000 by EA Sports and Racedriver GRID by Codemasters.

Subaru has created a number of engines, starting with the EA series introduced in 1966, progressing towards the currently used EJ series, which is wide but very short and light, and is mounted ahead of the front axle with the transmission behind.

The studio and some of its members were absorbed into EA Los Angeles, which continued development on the series.

After EA Los Angeles started up their new internal group Danger Close and switched its focus to the Medal of Honor series, EA launched a new studio named BioWare Victory to continue the Command & Conquer franchise.

* Total Club Manager, football management series of video games from Bright Future ( in older releases EA sports )

A ReBoot video game based on the TV series developed and published by EA for the PlayStation video game console was released.

After Sega's ESPN NFL 2K5 successfully grabbed market share away from EA's dominant Madden NFL series during the 2004 holiday season, EA responded by making several large sports licensing deals which include an exclusive agreement with the NFL, and in January 2005, a 15-year deal with ESPN.

* Need for Speed series ( 1994 –) ( first installment was made by EA in collaboration with Road & Track )

* The Sims Stories series ( 2007 – 2008 ) by Aspyr and EA

* Battlefield series ( 2002 – present ) by EA Digital Illusions CE

* Skate series ( 2007 –) by EA Black Box

* Army of Two series ( 2008 –) by EA Montreal

EA also published a black and white animation tool called Studio / 1, and a series of Paint titles on the Macintosh: Studio / 8 and Studio / 32 ( 1990 ).

Deluxe Paint ( DPaint ) is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts ( EA ).

EA Square had also developed a game, X-Squad, which was released for the PlayStation 2 during its launch.

Along with Westwood, EA had also acquired Virgin Interactive's development studio based in Irvine, California.

In early 2009 EA Games announced that they have bought the rights for a game from Red Eagle Entertainment, who had started programming it a few months earlier.

However, EA had no direct part in the development of the title.

The game was set to be released for Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and for personal computers, but the game was delayed and on 2 February 2007, EA announced that the game had been put on an indefinite hiatus, and to date no further information has been released.

By the early 2000s, EA had become one of the world's largest third-party publishers.

On May 4, 2011, EA reported $ 3. 8 billion in revenues for the fiscal year ending March 2011, and on January 13, 2012, EA announced that it had exceeded $ 1 billion in digital revenue during the previous calendar year.

In July 2011, EA announced that it had acquired PopCap Games, the company behind hits such as Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled.

On July 27, 2011, EA reported fiscal first-quarter profits had more than doubled on brisk sales of " highly-anticipated sports and shooter games ".

While at Apple, Hawkins had enjoyed company offsite meetings at Pajaro Dunes and organized such a planning offsite for EA in October 1982.

His handpicked successor is John Riccitiello, who had worked at EA for several years previously, departed for a while, and then returned.

" This statement comes a week after EA announced it was laying off 6 % about 600 of their staff positions & had a net loss for the quarter.

" I'll admit that, if you asked me years ago, I still had thoughts that EA was the Evil Empire, the company that crushes the small studios ... I'd have been surprised, if you told me a year ago that we'd end up with EA as a publisher.

In May 2008, ' EA_Spouse ' blog author Erin Hoffman, speaking to videogame industry news site Gamasutra, stated that EA had made significant progress, but may now be falling into old patterns again.

Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson had said, " Poor reviews and quality are beginning to tarnish the EA brand.

EA had also received criticism for developing games that lack innovation vis-à-vis the number of gaming titles produced under the EA brand that show a history of yearly updates, particularly in their sporting franchises.

Schafer announced in July 2010 that EA had canceled the sequel to Brütal Legend.

was Bunten's first game for EA, originally published for the Atari 8-bit family because the Atari 800 had four controller ports.

All BRATs had four-wheel drive and the Subaru EA engine.

New wheel trims were featured on all trim levels, and station wagon variants gained white tinted indicator lenses, replacing the amber tint which had been common since the introduction of the EA.

Molyneux had become an Electronic Arts vice-president and consultant in 1994, after EA purchased a significant share of Bullfrog.

On May 4, 2011, EA reported $ 3. 8 billion in revenues for the fiscal year ending March 2011.

As of December 8, 2006, EA Mobile LA has been relocated to the EA LA building in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California.

On August 8, 2007, it was announced that Barry Cottle will join EA Mobile as the new Senior Vice President and General Manager.

According to NCAA Football ( a not-for-profit corporation serving to represent various stakeholders for college football ), the " EA Sports video football game generates more than $ 8 million in royalties for NCAA Football and its members.

In May 2012, the game along with the rest of the EA F1 series was rated the 4th greatest Formula One gaming series by readers of the website F1 Fanatic winning 8 % of the vote.