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Electronic Arts franchises

  • FIFA (video game series)FIFA 12 sold more than 3.2 million copies in its first week, and it generated over $186 million at retail. That earned it the record for the fastest-selling sports game ever. FIFA is a football simulation franchise, and Guinness World…
  • FIFA World Cup video gamesThe first official World Cup video game in 1986 was an older game in new packaging.
  • Mass EffectMass Effect began in 2003 as a pitch to build a universe on the scale of Star Wars. BioWare wanted to own it entirely.
  • Dead SpaceDead Space is a science fiction horror franchise created by Glen Schofield and owned by Electronic Arts. It begins with a message. Isaac Clarke, a systems engineer, receives a plea from his girlfriend Nicole, who works aboard the USG…
  • Battlefield (video game series)Battlefield 6 was Vince Zampella's only game as the series' creative director. He died in December 2025.
  • Command & ConquerCommand & Conquer is a real-time strategy video game franchise, and it began with a studio that was fed up with deserts. In 1993, the magazine Computer Gaming World reported that Westwood Studios would not reuse the Dune license for its…
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old RepublicStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic begins with a character waking aboard a doomed Republic capital ship, with no memory of who they are. The setting lies four thousand years before the Star Wars films. This one amnesiac premise…
  • Need for SpeedNeed for Speed is a racing franchise that had sold more than 150 million copies by October 2013. That places it among the most successful game series of all time. It began in 1994 with a single game, The Need for Speed. Its latest…
  • The SimsThe Sims owes its existence to a disaster. In 1991 a firestorm tore through Oakland and destroyed the home of game designer Will Wright. Starting over meant buying everything again, from furniture to the smallest household belongings.…
  • Ultima (series)Ultima IV dropped the hero-versus-villain plot and made the player chase eight virtues instead.

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