Electronic Arts

**Electronic Arts, Inc.** (**EA Games**) is a large company which makes computer and video games all over the world. They made famous games such as *FIFA*, *The Sims*, *Madden NFL* and *Medal of Honor*. They also made the *Need for Speed* series. EAs most popular products are the games which are sold under the EA Sports label.

## History 
The company was started in February 1982 by Trip Hawkins. They first shipped their games in May 1983.
They have since then produced video games every year.

## Studios 
EA owns other smaller game companies which they call 'studios'.

A few of these include Maxis (creators of *The Sims*), Bullfrog (creators of *Theme Park* and *Theme Hospital*), BioWare (makers of *Mass Effect*), and PopCap Games (creators of Plants vs Zombies).

## Games 
**Pinball Construction Set* (1983) by Bill Budge
**Archon* (1983) and *Archon II: Adept* (1984) by Free Fall Associates
**M.U.L.E.* (1983) by Dan Bunten and Ozark Softscape
**One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird* (1983) by Eric Hammond
**Music Construction Set* (1984) by Will Harvey
**The Seven Cities of Gold* (1984) by Dan Bunten and Ozark Softscape
*''The Bard's Tale* (1985) by Interplay Productions
**Mail Order Monsters* (1985) by Paul Reiche III, Evan Robinson and Nicky Robinson
**Racing Destruction Set* (1985) by Rick Koenig
**Instant Music* (1986) by Robert Campbell
**Starflight* (1986) by Binary Systems
**Skate or Die!'' (1987), EA's first internally developed title
**Zany Golf* (1988), by Sandcastle Productions (Will Harvey)
**Populous* (1989) by Bullfrog which EA acquired in 1995
**The Immortal* (1990) by Sandcastle Productions (Will Harvey)
**Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf* (1992) by EA's High Score Production group
**NHL* series (1991–)
**Wing Commander* series (1992 onwards, previous games published in-house)
**FIFA* series (1993–)
**Need for Speed series* (1994–) (first installment was made by EA in collaboration with *Road & Track*)
**Ultima Online* (1997) by Origin Systems
**NASCAR series* (1997–2009)
**Command & Conquer* series (titles from 1999–present) by Westwood Studios (earlier titles released by Virgin Interactive)
**Dungeon Keeper* series by Bullfrog Productions
**SimCity* series (titles from 1999–) by Maxis (earlier titles released by other publishers)
**Medal of Honor* series (1999–)
**System Shock 2* (1999)
*''American McGee's Alice* (2000)
***SSX* series* (2000–)
**James Bond* series (1999–2005)
**Harry Potter series* (2001–2011)
**The Sims* (2000–2003) by Maxis
**The Sims 2* (2004–2008) by Maxis (and later The Sims Studio)
**The Sims Stories* series (2007–2008) by Aspyr and EA
**The Sims 3* (2009–present) by Visceral Games and The Sims Studio
**Burnout* series (2004–present)
**Battlefield* series (2002–present) by EA Digital Illusions CE
**Madden NFL series* (1989–present)
**NCAA Football series* (1993–present)
**Dark Age of Camelot* (republished after EA acquired Mythic in 2005)
**Crysis* series (2007–) by Crytek
**Rock Band* series (2007–) by Harmonix
**Skate* series (2007–) by EA Black Box
**Mass Effect* series (starting with *Mass Effect 2*, the first game was published by Microsoft)(2009–2012) by BioWare
**Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning* (2008) by Mythic Entertainment
**Spore* series (2008–) by Maxis
**Army of Two* series (2008–) by EA Montreal
**Dead Space* series (2008–) by Visceral Games
**Mirror's Edge* (2008) by EA Digital Illusions CE
**Dragon Age* series (2009–) by BioWare
**Dante's Inferno* (2010) by Visceral Games
**Star Wars: The Old Republic* (2011) by BioWare
* *The Simpsons: Tapped Out* (2012, mobile)
* *The Sims 4* (2014)
* *Titanfall* series (2014-) by Respawn Entertainment
* *It Takes Two'' (2021) by Hazelight Studios

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