Electronic Arts

EA Games, which changed its name to Electronic Arts in 2005, is a publicly owned company that develops, publishes, markets, and sells video games. Some of EA's most popular gaming titles include Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer, Burnout, and Madden. In 2010, they had over 25 games that sold more than a million copies. Five titles sold over 4 million copies each during 2010.http://aboutus.ea.com/home.action

Electronic Arts products are marketed under several different names that include EA Games, EA Sports, EA Big and several others. Their games are published for many different gaming platforms such as Game Boy, Playstation, Playstation 2, Sega, Atari, GameCube, Genesis and many more.http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025025.html

In 1982, while working as the director of Product Marketing at Apple, EA founder, Trip Hawkins took a meeting with Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Hawkins' idea for a software company called Amazin' Software. After investing $200,000 of his own money into the project, Hawkins was able to secure an additional $2,000,000 in venture capital from Sequoia, KCPB and Sevin Rosen Funds. From there Hawkins' dream became a reality. Founded on ideas, Electronic Arts has taken the video gaming industry to new heights. Video game revenue have now surpassed music and movies.http://aboutus.ea.com/history.action

1. 1982: EA Games was founded
2. 1989: First Madden Game
3. 1997: Acquired rights to the name Electronic Arts
4. 2008: Failed takeover of Take Two

Electronic Arts has published many games that are available on several different gaming platforms. Some of their more popular games includes titles like:

• Madden NFL 09
• The Sims 2
• Burnout
• Crysis
• Medal of Honor
• SimCity
• Need for Speed