Electronic Arts

What Electronic Arts is

Electronic Arts is a game company that develops and delivers games, content and online services for internet-connected consoles, mobile devices and personal computers. Its own about page gives 1982 as the company's founding year, Redwood City, California as its global headquarters, and lists its ownership status as private. The same page names brands in its portfolio including EA SPORTS FC, Battlefield, Apex Legends, The Sims, Madden NFL and Need for Speed. The page describes the company as focused on building games and experiences that grow online communities around its franchises and intellectual property.

The company site is ea.com. The about page lists its corporate address as 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, California, and states that consumers in the United States, Canada and Japan contract with Electronic Arts Inc., while consumers elsewhere contract with EA Swiss Sarl in Geneva, Switzerland. It links to separate pages for the company's games, subscriptions, technologies, executives and annual Impact Report, and lists the divisions the company operates under.

Ownership change

EA's ownership changed in 2026. A news release published on ea.com on 4 August 2026 states that the company's acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners had closed, that the agreement had been announced on 29 September 2025, and that it had been approved by EA stockholders at a special meeting held on 22 December 2025. The release quotes Andrew Wilson as Chairman and CEO of Electronic Arts and states that the agreement closed after receiving the approvals it required.

The same release gives an official revenue figure: in fiscal year 2026 EA posted GAAP net revenue of approximately 7.5 billion dollars. It describes the company as headquartered in Redwood City, California, and lists brands including EA SPORTS FC, Battlefield, Apex Legends, The Sims, EA SPORTS Madden NFL, EA SPORTS College Football, Need for Speed, Dragon Age, Titanfall and Plants vs. Zombies. The about page's statement of private ownership matches the closing of that acquisition, which the release describes as EA's next chapter under the consortium.

The games in our database

Our database lists two Electronic Arts titles: Apex Legends and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Both are published by EA rather than developed by it. Steam lists Apex Legends under developer Respawn and publisher Electronic Arts, with a release date of 4 November 2020. Apex Legends also appears among the brands named on EA's own about page and has its own section on ea.com covering game features, news and updates.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition has its own page on ea.com, which describes a collection containing the single-player base content and over 40 downloadable content items from the Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 games, including promotional weapons, armour and packs, remastered and optimised for 4K Ultra HD. Steam lists the collection under developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, with a release date of 14 May 2021. Its store page for the collection notes that decisions carry from one game to the next and that the remaster is optimised for modern displays. Neither game is credited to EA as a developer here.

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