EA (disambiguation)
Electronic Arts
"EA" redirects here. For Electronic Arts' sports label, see
EA Sports. For other uses, see
EA (disambiguation). Electronic Arts (EA) is an
American developer, marketer,
publisher, and distributor of
computer and 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 their games. EA was just a publisher for its first few years and exclusively published for home computers, but began developing games in-house in the late 1980s and started supporting
consoles in the early 1990s. Also in the 1990s, EA began to expand by acquiring several successful developers and, as of the early 2000s, EA has become the world's largest third-party publisher, with a net revenue of
US$3.129 billion for its fiscal year
March 31,
2005. Currently, the company's most successful products are sports games published under their
EA Sports label, games based on popular movie licenses and games from long-running franchises like
Need for Speed,
Medal of Honor,
The Sims,
Command & Conquer and the later games in the
Burnout series.
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Ea
Noun
1. the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element
(hypernym) Semitic deity
(classification) Mesopotamia
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Ea
[Mesopotamian] The ancient Sumero-Babylonian god of the sweet waters. He is the son of Ansar and Kisar and his consort is the mother goddess Damkina, with whom he is the father of Marduk. Ea knows everything and is regarded as the source and patron of wisdom, magic, and medical science. He is one of the creators of mankind, towards whom he is usually well-disposed, and their instructor and taught them arts and crafts. It was Ea who discovered Tiamat's designs to kill her offspring, and managed to kill her consort Apsu. Ea, who was friendly to man, also revealed Enlil's design of destroying mankind by a flood to Utnapishtim, the Babylonian version of Noah. Ea was one of the foremost gods of the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon and formed with Anu and Ellil an important and powerful triad of gods. The center of his cult was the city of Eridu, where lived 'in the deep'. He is shown on the seals with streams of water and fish flowing from his shoulders, attended by a two-faced minister, the bird Anzu...
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