game formerly called electronic arts sports network 1991 1993 type brand name industry interactive entertainment computer and video games founded 1991 key people frank gibeau andrew zlaket president ea labels andrew wilson evp ea sports products sports games revenue us 4.02 billion 2008 1 net income us 339 million 2008 number of employees 8 000 2010 2 parent electronic arts website easports.com ea sports stylized as ea sports is a brand of electronic arts that creates and develops sports video games . formerly a marketing gimmick of electronic arts in which they tried to imitate real life sports networks by calling themselves the ea sports network easn with pictures or endorsements with real commentators such as john madden it soon grew up to become a sub label on its own releasing game series such as nba live fifa nhl madden nfl and nascar . the best selling ea sports series is fifa series with over 100 million units sold . 3 most games under this brand are developed by ea canada the studio of electronic arts in burnaby british columbia as well as ea blackbox vancouver british columbia and ea tiburon in maitland florida . the main rival to ea sports is 2k sports . notably both companies compete over the realm of nba games . ea sports inherits its motto it s in the game from the parent company electronic arts . it was voiced by journalist andrew anthony . unlike some other sports game companies ea sports has no special ties to a single platform which means that all games are released for the best selling active platforms sometimes long after most of the other companies abandon them . for example fifa 98 madden nfl 98 nba live 98 and nhl 98 were released for the sega genesis and the super nes throughout 1997 ; madden nfl 2005 and fifa 2005 had playstation released in 2004 fifa 2005 was also the last playstation title to be released ; and ncaa football 08 had an xbox released in 2007 . madden nfl 08 also had xbox and nintendo gamecube releases in 2007 and was the final title released for the gamecube with madden nfl 09 following as the final xbox title . additionally nascar thunder 2003 and nascar thunder 2004 were released not only for the playstation 2 but for the original playstation as well . ea sports brand name is used to sponsor english football league one team swindon town f.c. from the 2009 10 season onwards and the ea sports cup in the republic of ireland . contents 1 series and games 1.1 current 1.2 former 2 exclusivity deals 3 pc games 4 playstation home 5 games 5.1 2012 and beyond 5.1.1 2012 5.1.2 2013 5.1.3 2014 5.1.4 2015 5.1.5 2016 5.2 see also 6 references 7 external links series and games edit most ea sports games are distinguished by year as most games are released on a yearly basis . nevertheless as ea sports is the leading purchaser of official licenses it is not uncommon that in a short span several games of the same sport but with different licenses are released fifa 98 was shortly followed by world cup 98 as ea has the license for the fifa world cup and the european football championship each happening regularly in four year intervals and college football and basketball games are released that are based on madden nfl and nba live respectively . current edit series sport madden american football pga tour golf nhl ice hockey fifa association football nba live basketball ufc mixed martial arts former edit series years active sport ncaa football 1993 2013 college football mario andretti racing 1994 1996 auto racing rugby 1995 2008 rugby union australian rugby league 1995 1996 rugby league cricket 1996 2007 cricket triple play mvp baseball 1997 2007 baseball nascar 1997 2010 stock car racing afl 1998 1999 australian rules football ncaa basketball 1998 2010 college basketball fight night 1998 2011 boxing f1 2000 2003 formula one arena football 2006 2007 arena football ea sports active 2009 2010 training grand slam tennis 2009 2012 tennis exclusivity deals edit this section has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality . discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page . may 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message in 2002 ea purchased the license to nascar for six years ending competition from papyrus and infogrames . they lost the nascar license in 2009 and the nascar license would be owned by polyphony digital for the gran turismo series starting with gran turismo 5 and also eutechnyx for nascar the game series until its inception in 2015 . on december 13 2004 ea sports signed an exclusive deal with the national football league nfl and its players union for five years . on february 12 2008 ea sports announced the extension of its exclusive deal until the 2012 nfl season . less than a month after the nfl exclusive deal ea sports signed a four year exclusive deal with the arena football league afl . on april 11 2005 the national collegiate athletic association ncaa and ea sports signed a deal to grant ea sports the sole rights to produce college football games for six years . ea lost the rights for major league baseball mlb games to 2k sports in 2005 ending ea s mvp series ; however ea made ncaa baseball games in 2006 and 2007 after losing the mlb license . in january 2008 ea sports decided not to renew their ncaa college baseball license while they evaluate the status of their mvp game engine . 4 in 2005 ea sports and espn signed a massive 15 year deal for espn to be integrated into ea sports video games from 2k sports and sega . ea s use of the espn license has steadily increased over the early life of the deal . ea s early usage of the espn license began with espn radio and a sports ticker in titles like madden nfl nba live tiger woods pga tour and ncaa baseball and football . the espn integration now includes streaming podcasts text articles including content only available previously to espn insider subscribers and espn motion video including such programs as pardon the interruption . in 2012 ea signs a multi year multi product partnership with the ultimate fighting championship taking over from thq . pc games edit in june 2009 ea sports announced that for 2010 the games madden nfl ncaa football nascar nhl nba live and tiger woods pga tour would not be shipped for pc platforms microsoft windows and or mac os x . 5 6 the ncaa football series hadn t been released on the pc since 1998 the tiger woods series last pc game was tiger woods pga tour 08 the nascar series hadn t had a pc version since nascar simracing in 2005 and the madden series last pc game was madden nfl 08 . the nhl series last pc game was nhl 09 . likewise nba live 08 was the final pc version for nba live . the head of ea sports at that time peter moore cited piracy and the fact that the pc as a platform for authentic fully licensed simulation sports games has declined radically in the past three years as the next generation consoles ... have attracted millions of consumers . 7 8 ea sports released fifa world as a free to play massively multi player game which is exclusive to the pc on the 12th november 2013 . the company noted that the fifa and fifa manager series would still be released for the pc platform . playstation home edit this section may be too long and excessively detailed . please consider summarizing the material while citing sources as needed . may 2016 on april 23 2009 ea sports released the long awaited ea sports complex space for the playstation 3 s online community based service playstation home in the european and north american versions . 9 in the complex users can play a series of mini games including poker kart racing golf and it also features a virtual ea shop . there are also a number of advertisements for upcoming ea sports games . each mini game that the complex features has a reward or rewards . heavy water a company dedicated to developing for home developed the ea sports complex for ea sports . 10 originally the complex just featured two rooms the ea sports complex and the ea sports complex upstairs . the ea sports complex featured racing and had a golfing range that was unavailable to play . the upstairs had four poker tables that users could play at any time . with the june 18 2009 update the complex s name changed to the ea sports racing complex and the upstairs changed to the ea sports complex green poker room . 11 other than the name change the update took away the golfing range and added four more karts for users to play racing at and it also added one red poker table to the poker room . the july 2 2009 update added golf and another poker room making four rooms for the complex ; the ea sports racing complex the ea sports golf complex the ea sports complex green poker room and the ea sports complex red poker room . the racing complex features racing with a total of eight karts ; four on each side of the complex . the golf complex features two practice ranges for golfing ; one range on each side of the complex . a golf pro shop is coming soon for the golf complex . the green poker room featured four green poker tables that users can play anytime . the red poker room featured four red poker tables but requires users to have 2 000 points to play . on july 16 2009 ea sports released another room for the complex making five rooms for the complex . this room is the game space for fight night round 4 called club fight night featuring a mini game called club dj and coming soon robot boxing . 12 on july 30 2009 ea sports added a black poker table to the ea sports complex red poker room for the higher level players . in time there will be a room dedicated for this table just like the green poker room and the red poker room . they also added a fifth green table to the green poker room . the update also included the addition of the ea sports pro shop where users can purchase full boxing outfits and furniture from fight night round 4 . the pro shop is found in the racing complex . 13 the august 16 2009 update replaced the fifth green table in the green poker room with a red table . they also reduced the amount of points for the black table from 20 000 to 10 000 . the august 27 2009 update separated the scoreboards for each level of play green red and black and into daily boards and season boards left side and right side improved card readability additional rail seating near the poker tables player removal on lock up while playing poker and player buy in refund on removal does not refund on home disconnect while playing poker . 14 on october 9 2009 ea sports released the ea sports complex to the japanese version of home . they also released nfl jerseys for every team in the league for purchase inside of the ea sports complex and in home s shopping complex . ea sports have also teamed up with the home team to produce and distribute exclusive virtual items that serve to support national breast cancer awareness month . 100 % of proceeds for these items went go to the brees dream foundation