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Electronic Arts is an American company that is a developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of video games, that was founded in 1982. Products of the company include EA Sports franchises, Sims, and other titles on both handheld and home gaming consoles. [1] Electronic Arts often acquires new companies to expand or add to new product lines.
Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.It was founded on March 3, 1983, by Richard Garriott and his brother Robert.Origin is best known for their groundbreaking work in multiple genres of video games, such as the Ultima and Wing Commander series.
EA, also known as EA Desktop and formerly known as Origin, is a digital distribution platform for Microsoft Windows and macOS, developed by Electronic Arts for purchasing and playing video games. In October 2022, Origin for Windows was discontinued, directing players to the EA App, with the macOS version remaining as the primary method for ...
More than 50 million people have signed up for Electronic Arts' digital distribution platform, Origin. That number is up by about 10 million since February of this year, EA reported as part of its ...
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.Founded in May 1982 by former Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the designers and programmers responsible for its games as "software artists".
EA's handling of Origin Systems, the studio behind the Ultima series, is considered a key example of this business practice. EA acquired Origin in 1992. Under EA, Origin was pushed into quickly finishing two Ultima titles, Ultima VIII: Pagan and Ultima IX: Ascension, despite protests from the studio's founder Richard Garriott. [3]
He was a vice president and later an executive vice president at Electronic Arts (EA) after the company acquired Origin in 1992. Garriott left EA in 1995 and co-founded Destination Games in 2000. Destination was bought by NCsoft in 2001 and he became president and CEO of NCsoft-North America. [3]
Westwood Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada.It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into Westwood Associates and was renamed to Westwood Studios when Virgin Games (later Virgin Interactive Entertainment) bought the company in 1992.