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EA Mobile Inc. is an American video game developer, video game development studio of the video game publisher, publisher Electronic Arts (EA) for mobile platforms. The studio's primary business is producing games for mobile phones. It has also produced other entertainment-related software such as ringtone applications, as well as games for other platforms such as personal digital assistant, PDAs and personal computers. EA Mobile produces games in a wide variety of genres, such as fighting games, puzzle games, and sports titles. Their most well-known products to date include ''The Sims'', ''Need For Speed (series), Need for Speed'', and ''FIFA (video game series), FIFA'' as well as a mobile conversion of the widely known puzzle game ''Bejeweled (video game), Bejeweled'', a conversion for Pocket PC of the PC game ''Worms World Party'' and their NFL, NBA, and MLB -branded games, in addition to holding the license for the mobile versions of ''Tetris'' and various ''Monopoly (game), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bejeweled (video Game)
''Bejeweled'' is a 2000 match-three video game developed and published by PopCap Games. ''Bejeweled'' involves lining up three or more multi-colored gems to clear them from the game board. The game was inspired by a similar browser game, titled ''Colors Game''. Originally released in 2000 under the title ''Diamond Mine'' as a browser game on the team's official website, ''Bejeweled'' was licensed to be hosted on MSN Games under its current name. PopCap released a retail version titled ''Bejeweled Deluxe'' in May 2001. ''Bejeweled'' has since been ported to many platforms, particularly mobile devices. The game has been commercially successful, having sold over 10 million copies and been downloaded more than 150 million times. It is credited with popularizing match-three video games and launching the casual games industry, which grew to be worth $3 billion within a decade. The game was followed by a commercially successful series of sequels and spin-offs. Gameplay ''Bejew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worms World Party
''Worms World Party'' is a 2001 artillery turn-based tactics video game developed by Team17, and is the sequel to '' Worms Armageddon'' in the '' Worms series''. As with the previous games in the series, players take turns controlling their teams and using available projectiles, firearms, explosives, and equipment to destroy all opposing teams and manoeuvre across a specified and highly destructible map. Although fairly well received upon release, the overall reception of ''Worms World Party'' has subsequently become mixed amongst the ''Worms'' community. Some found it to be an improvement to an already good game, whilst others saw it as being too derivative of its predecessor and not worthwhile for ''Worms Armageddon'' players. ''Worms World Party'' was the last two-dimensional title in the main series before transitioning to 3D graphics, with '' Worms 3D'' as the first fully 3D ''Worms'' title. Gameplay Like its predecessors, ''Worms World Party'' is a side-scrolling video g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetris
''Tetris'' () is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. In ''Tetris'', falling tetromino shapes must be neatly sorted into a pile; once a horizontal line of the game board is filled in, it disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from overflowing. Over 200 versions of ''Tetris'' have been published by numerous companies on more than 65 platforms, often with altered game mechanics, some of which have become standard over time. To date, these versions of ''Tetris'' collectively serve as the second-best-selling video game series with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile devices. In the 1980s, Pajitnov worked for the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences, where he programmed ''Tetris'' on the Elektronika 60 and adapted it to the IBM PC with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov. Floppy disk copies were distributed freely throughout Moscow, before spreading to Eastern Europe. Robert Stein of Andro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Need For Speed (series)
''Need for Speed'' (''NFS'') is a racing game franchise published by Electronic Arts and currently developed by Criterion Games (the developers of the ''Burnout'' series). Most entries in the series are generally arcade racing games centered around illegal street racing, and tasks players to complete various types of races, while evading the local law enforcement in police pursuits. Some entries also do not follow the basic setup of most titles and are instead simulation racers, focus on legal circuit races, feature kart racing game elements, or feature illegal street racing but not feature police pursuits. ''Need for Speed'' is one of EA's oldest franchises not published under their EA Sports brand. The series' first title, '' The Need for Speed'', was released in 1994. The latest installment, ''Need for Speed Unbound'', was released on December 2, 2022. Additionally, a free-to-play mobile installment released in 2015, '' Need for Speed: No Limits'', is actively developed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AT&T Mobility
AT&T Mobility, LLC, also known as AT&T Wireless and Trade name, marketed as simply AT&T, is an American telecommunications company. Formed in April 2000 as Cingular Wireless LLC, It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T, AT&T Inc. and provides Wireless, wireless services in the United States. AT&T Mobility is the List of mobile network operators in the United States, third largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 118 million subscribers as of March 31, 2025. The company is headquartered in Brookhaven, Georgia. Originally known as Cingular Wireless (a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth) from 2000 to 2007, the company acquired the old AT&T Wireless Services, AT&T Wireless in 2004; SBC later acquired AT&T Corporation, the original AT&T and adopted its name. Cingular became wholly owned by AT&T in December 2006 as a result of AT&T's Mergers and acquisitions, acquisition of BellSouth. In January 2007, Cingular confirmed it would rebrand itself under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. ( ), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 146 million subscribers as of March 31, 2025. The company was formed in 1983 as Bell Atlantic as a result of the breakup of the Bell System into seven companies, each a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC), commonly referred to as "Baby Bells." The company was originally headquartered in Philadelphia and operated in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. In 1997, Bell Atlantic expanded into New York and the New England states by merging with fellow Baby Bell NYNEX. While Bell Atlantic was the surviving company, the merged company moved its headquarters from Philadelphia to NYNEX's old headquarters in New York City. In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE, which oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before being acquired by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019. The company also offered wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile and Open Mobile brands and wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators. In July 2013, majority ownership of the company was purchased by the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Group. Sprint used CDMA, EvDO and 4G LTE networks, and formerly operated iDEN, WiMAX, and 5G NR networks. Sprint was incorporated in Kansas. Sprint traced its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 to bring telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, Kansas. In 2006, Sprint left the local landline telephone business and spun those assets off into a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. The region includes Middle America (Americas), Middle America (comprising the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico) and Northern America. North America covers an area of about , representing approximately 16.5% of Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. , North America's population was estimated as over 592 million people in list of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Game
A mobile game is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone. The term also refers to all games that are played on any Mobile device, portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet computer, tablet, Personal digital assistant, PDA to handheld game console, portable media player or graphing calculator, with and without network availability. The earliest known game on a mobile phone was a Tetris variant on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994. In 1997, Nokia launched ''Snake (1998 video game), Snake''. ''Snake'', which was Pre-installed software, pre-installed in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia for a couple of years, has since become one of the most played games, at one point found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. Mobile devices became more computationally advanced allowing for downloading of games, though these were initially limited to phone carriers' own stores. Mobile gaming grew greatly with the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Best-selling Video Games
This is a list of fifty video games that have verifiably sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is ''Minecraft'', a 2011 multi-platform sandbox game released by Mojang. As of October 2023, it became the first video game to sell over 300 million copies. Its closest competitor, ''Grand Theft Auto V'', is the only other video game to have reached both 100 and 200 million copies. The best-selling single-platform game is '' Wii Sports'', with nearly 83 million sales exclusively for the Wii console. Three of the most represented video game franchises on this list feature ''Pokémon'', ''Mario'', and ''Call of Duty''. In certain instances, ''Tetris'' is often considered the best-selling video game as opposed to ''Minecraft''. The inconsistency originates from the differentiation between standalone game releases and the comprehensive ''Tetris'' franchise as a whole. According to The Tetris Company, the sales figures ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetris (Electronic Arts)
''Tetris'' was a puzzle video game developed by EA Mobile and published by Electronic Arts for iOS, Android (operating system), Android, BlackBerry OS, and Windows Phone. The game featured gameplay like other ''Tetris'' titles, with a new soundtrack. It was discontinued and rendered inoperative in 2020 after EA's license expired. Gameplay Gameplay was nearly identical in gameplay to other ''Tetris'' titles, but with a new soundtrack. Players also had the ability to create their own soundtrack for the game using the music library of the iPhone or iPod Touch device on which the game is being played. The game offered two modes of play dubbed "Marathon" mode and "Magic" mode. Marathon Marathon mode is the classic version of ''Tetris'', where a point system along with number of lines cleared were kept as indicators of progress. The level of speed was chosen prior to starting the mode of gameplay. There were 15 levels total, and like Magic mode, this mode ends after all 15 levels ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
