Headcount rose rapidly in 1983, including Don Daglow, Richard Hilleman, Stewart Bonn, David Gardner, and Nancy Fong. Having outgrown the office space provided by Sequoia Capital, the company relocated to a San Mateo office that overlooked the San Francisco Airport landing path. Between September and November, employee headcount rose to 11, including Tim Mott, Bing Gordon, David Maynard, and Steve Hayes. The business plan was again refined in September and reissued on October 8, 1982. During that time, Hawkins also employed two of his former staff from Apple, Dave Evans and Pat Marriott, as producers, and a Stanford MBA classmate, Jeff Burton from Atari for international business development. With aid from his first employee (with whom he worked in marketing at Apple), Rich Melmon, the original plan was written, mostly by Hawkins, on an Apple II in Sequoia Capital's office in August 1982. Д®A continued its shift toward digital goods in 2012, folding its mobile-focused EA Interactive (EAi) division 'into other organizations throughout the company, specifically those divisions led by EA Labels president Frank Gibeau, COO Peter Moore, and CTO Rajat Taneja, and EVP of digital Kristian Segerstrale.' 1982вЂ“1991Д®lectronic Arts' original corporate logo, 1982вЂ“2000.ДЇor more than seven months, Hawkins refined his Electronic Arts business plan. In July 2011, EA announced that it had acquired PopCap Games, the company behind hits such as Plants vs. In 2009, EA acquired the London-based social gaming startup Playfish, and in June 2011, EA launched Origin, an online service to sell downloadable games directly to consumers. EA began to move toward direct distribution of digital games and services with the acquisition of the popular online gaming site in 2001. In a note to employees, EA CEO John Riccitiello called this вЂњan incredibly important milestoneвЂќ for the company. On May 4, 2011, EA reported $3.8В billion in revenues for the fiscal year ending March 2011, and on January 13, 2012, EA announced that it had exceeded $1 billion in digital revenue during the previous calendar year. By the early 2000s, EA had become one of the world's largest third-party publishers. EA later grew via acquisition of several successful developers. The company began developing games in-house and supported consoles by the early 1990s.

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The company is also known for milking many of its franchises, such as Need for Speed and all of its sports games. It is known for implementing controversial policies into its games, such as microtransactions, expensive downloadable content, and more recently, liberal identity politics following the Gamergate controversy in 2014. Д®lectronic Arts, along with its rivals Activision, Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft, is often considered one of the most unpopular video game companies in the world. EA also owns and operates major gaming studios, EA Tiburon in Orlando, EA Canada in Burnaby, BioWare in Edmonton as well as Montreal, and DICE in Sweden. Other EA labels produce established franchises such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, The Sims, Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer, as well as newer franchises such as Crysis, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Army of Two, Titanfall and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, produced in partnership with LucasArts.

Д¬urrently, EA develops and publishes games under several labels including EA Sports titles FIFA, Madden NFL, NHL, NCAA Football, NBA Live, and SSX. In 2011, Electronic Arts was the world's third-largest gaming company by revenue after Nintendo and Activision Blizzard.

Founded and incorporated on by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games. ( EA), also known as EA Games, is an American video game company of video games headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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