EA Games Venturing Out Onto Social Web

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Paul Glazowski
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EA Games Venturing Out Onto Social Web
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Like online gaming? EA has noticed.

Yes, so it seems. News broken a couple of days ago by Curt Feldman of Gametap, a subscription-based gaming service on the Web, Electronic Arts, one of the largest publishers of video game entertainment, is working to assemble a social online division of the company that will develop, among other things, titles that operate on platforms all over the Internet. According to Gametap’s report on the matter, EA has already begun “testing the waters” with a game dubbed Facebook Smarty Pants [Facebook login req.], a “repurposed version of (2007’s) Wii-exclusive trivia title bearing the same name.

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