EA Sports Logo — Electronic Arts (usually abbreviated as AD ) is a U.S. developer and publisher of video games for PC and consoles founded by Trip Hawkins . It is the first in the area called third party , ie licensee to produce games consoles of other companies, is headquartered in Redwood City, California. He studied in several cities in the United States , in Canada , Japan and England . It has several subsidiaries, such as EA Sports , in charge of sports simulators, EA Games for the other games, and acquired subsidiaries for as long as Maxis , among others. Electronic Arts also has the largest distribution of the world in this sector, is based in countries as diverse as Brazil, Poland and the Czech Republic is one of the few Western companies own distribution of video games in Japan.
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Founded in 1983, was a producer indiscreet gambling, it was decided to specialize in this area with games suitable for the support, such as gender and military strategies. In the early 90’s he started producing massive sports simulators and decided to produce console, with Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo , the platforms where the company won more games in the mid-90. The company’s revenue soared due to an aggressive advertising and licensing, for example in 1994 took the FIFA International Soccer, the first sports simulation with real player names and team costumes, which gave very popular and a never-ending saga that banished the other competitors if we except the sagas of International Super Star Soccer , Pro Evolution Soccer and Winning Eleven from Konami . More