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Key facts
- Formerly
- Electronic Arts Sports Network (1991–1993)
- Company type
- Division
- Industry
- Video games
- Founded
- 1991 ; 35 years ago ( 1991 )
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, California , U.S.
- Key people
- Daryl Holt, ( chief operating officer</span>"}]]}'>COO and vice president</span>"}]]}'>VP ), Cam Weber ( president )
- Products
- EA Sports Rally series F1 series EA Sports FC series Madden NFL series NBA Live series NHL series PGA Tour series Super Mega Baseball series UFC series EA Sports College Football WRC series
- Parent
- Electronic Arts
- Subsidiaries
- EA Cologne EA Madrid EA Romania EA Orlando EA Vancouver Metalhead Software Codemasters
- Website
- ea.com/sports
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Burnaby
- Parent organization
- Electronic Arts
- Industry
- video game industry
- Official website
- www.easports.com
- Motto
- EA Sports - It's in the game
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- Commons category
- EA Sports
- inception
- 1991-00-00
- social media followers
- 782000
- topic's main category
- Category:EA Sports games
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Encyclopedic overview
EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they imitated real-life sports networks by calling themselves the "EA Sports Network" (EASN) with pictures or endorsements, it soon grew up to become a sub-label on its own, releasing game series such as EA Sports FC, PGA Tour, NHL, NBA Live, and Madden NFL.
Most games under this brand are developed by EA Vancouver, the Electronic Arts studio in Burnaby, British Columbia, as well as EA Orlando (formerly Tiburon Studios) in Orlando, Florida. The main rival to EA Sports is 2K Sports. Notably, until 2018, both companies competed over the realm of NBA games, with 2K releasing the NBA 2K series. Konami is its rival in association football games with their own series, eFootball.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “EA Sports” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.