Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
EA has hosted an earnings call for its Q4 2024 financial results which, broadly speaking, were just below where the publisher thought they would be. The company reported $1.66 billion in revenue, handsome but somewhat lower than its expectation of $1.8 billion, and so the mood music in both the prepared remarks and the accompanying shareholder call was all about what wonders EA has ready to hit over the next few years to make a whole lot more money.
One of the big questions however, even for shareholders, is just what's going on with Battlefield. EA's one time competitor to Call of Duty has felt way off the pace in the FPS genre for many years now, and even rudderless: a perception not helped byEA last month announced that Motive, developer of the Dead Space remake, was joining the wider Battlefield development team, which includes DICE, Criterion, and Ripple Effect.
This is no surprise: previous Battlefield titles arguably qualify as live service, even if they haven't quite gone full Destiny, and the contemporary FPS market is built on the trappings of battle passes and seasonal content. In 2021 EA handed leadership of the Battlefield series to Respawn founder Vince Zampella, who remains in charge, and the publisher is clearly committing an enormous amount of resources to whatever's next.
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