Patrick Soderlund has only been on the job for about six weeks, and he's already making big changes.
As Electronic Arts' executive vice president of EA Studios, his responsibilities are global. Soderlund oversees studios from California to Calgary to Sweden that produce games like the Dead Space series and EA Sports titles and the Mass Effect games.
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Today, Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, alongside the full year.
Split Fiction has sold nearly 4 million copies, and the next battlefield is confirmed for a release by March 2026 with a reveal this Summer.
In addition to the roughly 100 job cuts IGN reported earlier today at Respawn Entertainment, EA has made wider cuts across its organization today, impacting around 300 individuals total including those already reported at Respawn.
Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....
This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.
Why would anyone willingly work in the VG industry or specifically for one of these globocorp organizations that put you in constant fear of losing your livelihood based on terrible choices made by idiotic management, not the people with talent making the actual games?
Mad respects to the man if he can etch out a new path for EA to go down.
It's gonna take hope, prayer, holy water and the delorean time machine to go wayyyyyyyy back in time to undo all the damage that tiberoun(sp?) has done to the madden series let alone their entire sports games division in general.
One guy isn't gonna change anything, but a good start for him would be giving up the nfl license and other companies make football games.
Stop making games for older consoles otherwise they don't update engines see tiger woods games.