14 Facts About EA

1. In 2009, EA arranged a fake protest outside the Electronic Entertainment Expo to draw attention to the game Dante's Inferno.

2. In 2013, EA received criticism regarding its persistent online authentication system as implemented in the SimCity reboot.

3. On June 24, 2009, EA announced a change in its approach to preventing copyright infringement of PC games.

4. On September 26, 2013, EA settled a series of wide-ranging class action lawsuits filed by former NCAA players accusing EA and others of unauthorized use of player likenesses in their football and basketball games.

5. On December 19, 2013, EA was hit with a class action lawsuit over the bugs in the Battlefield 4 DLC.

6. On July 9, 2018, EA announced it has acquired Pasadena-based studio Industrial Toys.

7. On May 22, 2018, EA announced that it has acquired cloud gaming technology and talent from GameFly and its wholly owned subsidiary based in Israel.

8. On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for.

9. On June 24, 2009, EA announced it will merge two of its development studios, BioWare and Mythic into one single role-playing video game and MMO development powerhouse.

10. In 2008, Electronic Arts retired the EA Sports Big label and replaced it with EA Sports Freestyle, which would focus exclusively on casual sports games, regardless of genre.

11. In October 2007, EA purchased Super Computer International, a long-standing industry provider of game server hosting for development studios, who were currently developing the new Playlinc software.

12. In September 2006, Nokia and EA announced a partnership in which EA becomes an exclusive major supplier of mobile games to Nokia mobile devices through the Nokia Content Discoverer.

13. In 2004, EA made a multimillion-dollar donation to fund the development of game production curriculum at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division.

14. In 2009, EA acquired the London-based social gaming startup Playfish, and in June 2011, EA launched Origin, an online service to sell downloadable games directly to consumers.