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EA, Ea, or ea may refer to:

Initialisms

• Electronic Arts, a video game company
• Electricity Association, a former association of electricity companies in the United Kingdom
• Electron affinity
• Electrophilic addition, a type of reaction in organic chemistry
• Emotions Anonymous, a program for those seeking to improve their mental or emotional health
• Endowment Assurance, a type of life insurance policy
• Engine Alliance, a joint venture between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney
• Engineering Aide (US Navy), a Seabee occupational rating in the U.S. Navy
• Engineers Australia, a professional body
• Enrolled Agent, a tax professional recognized by the IRS
• Enterprise architecture, a framework to align an processes with overall strategy
• Environment Agency, a regulatory body for the environment in England and Wales
• Episcopal Academy, a school in Merion, Pennsylvania
• Eusko Alkartasuna, a Basque political party
• Evangelical Alliance, a UK group of Evangelical Christians
• Evolutionary algorithm, an optimization algorithm
• Executive assistant
• Extended Attribute, a computer file system feature
• National Solidarity (Greece) or Ethniki Allilengyi, a Greek World War II-era welfare organization
• Sparx Enterprise Architect, a Unified Modeling Language (UML) modeling tool

Places

• Ea, Biscay, a town in the north of Spain

Fictional worlds

• Eä, the World that IS of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe
• Éa, of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea fictional universe

Names

• Ea (Babylonian god) or Enki, a water deity
• Ea Ea or Craige Schensted, mathematician and game designer

Symbols

• ea (digraph)
• Exaampere or EA, an SI unit of electric current
• Activation energy or E_a
• Exa-annum or Ea, a unit of time

Codes

• European Air Express's IATA airline designator
• Eastern Air Lines' IATA airline designator
• Eurasian Patent Organization's WIPO Standard ST.3 code

Other uses

• Ea (band), a band on Solitude Productions label

See also

• Amarna letters, EA 1 through EA 382
• EMC EA/EB diesel locomotive, its cab-equipped lead unit
• All pages beginning with "EA"
• All pages beginning with "Ea"
• All pages with titles containing "EA"

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Translingual

Symbol

EA

1. (metrology) Symbol for the exaampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 10¹⁸ amperes.

English

Initialism

EA

1. (computing) Enterprise Architecture: a framework used to manage and align an organization's business processes, Information Technology (IT) data, software and hardware, with the organization's overall strategy.
2. (organic chemistry) ethyl acetate.
3. (video games) abbreviation of Electronic Arts.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of ae , AE, æ

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Electronic Arts
Founded	1982
Founder(s)	Trip Hawkins
Located	Redwood City, California, USA
Website	http://www.ea.com
Wikipedia has more about this subject: Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts (EA) is a United States based international developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 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. Originally, EA was a home computing game publisher. In the late 1980s, the company began developing games in-house and supported consoles by the early 1990s. EA later grew via acquisition of several successful developers. By the early 2000s, EA had become one of the world's largest third-party publishers. In 2007 EA ranked 8th on the list of largest software companies in the world. In May 2008, the company reported net annual revenue of US$4.02 billion in fiscal year 2008. Currently, EA's most successful products are sports games published under its EA Sports label, games based on popular movie licenses and games from long-running franchises like Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, The Sims, Battlefield and the later games in the Burnout and Command & Conquer series.

Labels

The following are the four Electronic Arts labels, with the studios that fall under each label:

• EA Games: Home to the largest number of studio and development teams, this label is responsible for action-adventure, role playing, racing and combat games, marketed under the EA brand. In addition to traditional packaged-goods games, EA Games also develops massively-multiplayer online role-playing games.
  • EA Redwood Shores (Headquarters)
  • EA Los Angeles
  • EA Montreal
  • BioWare
  • EA Digital Illusions CE
  • Pandemic Studios
  • EA Black Box
  • Maxis
  • EA Phenomic
  • Criterion Games
  • Mythic Entertainment
• EA Sports: Publishes all the realistic, casual, and freestyle sports-based titles from EA, including FIFA Soccer, Madden NFL, Fight Night, NBA Live, NCAA Football, NCAA March Madness, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, NHL Hockey, NASCAR and Rugby.
  • EA Tiburon (Florida)
  • EA Canada (Vancouver)
  • EA Sports Big (San Francisco)
• EA Casual Entertainment: Creates and publishes casual games for gamers and non-traditional gamers. Includes EA's Pogo online service Pogo.com (online games site, with numerous EA brand tie-ins), EA Hasbro, and EA Mobile (mobile phone and iPod games, previously JAMDAT).
• The Sims: develops and markets life-simulation games and online communities, including those with "Sims" titles.

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Electronic Arts
Type	Public
Founded	1982
Headquarters	Redwood City, California, USA
Products
Parent Company	N/A
Website	http://www.ea.com

Electronic Arts is the name of a video game publisher and developer. It is currently the biggest video game publisher in the United States. Founded in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, EA now has a reputation among many as being a big, aggressive, little-man crushing corporation. This is mostly due to reports of the long hours of work they impose on their development teams, the acquisition and closing of small companies, and buying of exclusive sports licenses to prevent competition.

Originally, they published historically significant games such as M.U.L.E. for the Atari 800. Today, they have become a developer of many movie tie-ins and hugely successful sports games.

They also own Pogo.com, a game website.

EA Los Angeles Logo

Departments

Electronics Arts has specific brand-names that it publishes its games under.

EA Games

EA Games logo

Any non-sports games are published under the EA Games department. This includes the many movie-based games like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Some notable output published under this department include Burnout 3: Takedown, Battlefield 2, The Sims and Medal of Honor.

EA Sports

EA Sports logo

One of EA's most successful brands, EA Sports is the home to their best-selling sports titles. The most notable of which is the Madden NFL series. This department holds exclusive license to the NFL, ESPN information, and College Football. A game for each major sport (NBA Live series, FIFA series, etc.) is put out every year, sometimes with only minor improvements.

EA Sports Big

EA Sports Big logo

Any extreme sports games, or unrealistc arcade versions of popular sports, are under the EA Big umbrella. Notable games are: SSX Tricky, NBA Street V3 and NFL Street.

Buyouts

EA Old Logo

One of EA's main business strategies relies on aggressively buying out other game developers mainly to acquire said developers intellectual property. EA has then historically gone on to ruin the very IPs they so wanted by forcing the developers to quickly pump out lackluster sequels to critically acclaimed franchises.

Ubisoft

On December 20, 2004 EA announced that it would purchase a 19.9 percent share of Ubisoft. Costing an estimated $85 million to $100 million, this move was seen by many to be the first steps to a full acquisition. Ubisoft went on record declaring the bid a hostile act and has since taken steps to prevent a full buyout by EA.

Game developers EA has purchased

• Mythic Entertainment (expected to be finalized in EA's second quarter of fiscal 2007) [1]
• Digital Illusions CE (D.I.C.E.) (2006)
• Westwood Studios (1998)
• Bullfrog Productions (1995)
• Origin Systems (1992)