Electronic Arts (EA) said it signed a deal with Idea+Design Works...
Electronic Arts (EA) said it signed a deal with Idea+Design Works (IDW) Publishing to bring the Army of Two and Dragon Age game properties to the comics arena under a new EA Comics imprint from IDW starting in January.…
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The companies will launch monthly comic series for both properties, with each issue published in print and distributed nationally at comic book stores, and digital versions also released for the iPhone and iPod touch and “other emerging digital platforms,” they said on Monday. The move “marks another step in our strategy for extending EA’s wholly-owned game properties to new media,” said Mike Quigley, group vice president of global marketing for the EA Games Label. EA “will fund and manage the creative aspect of the comic book series, while IDW will be responsible for printing and distribution,” the companies said. IDW is the third largest comic book publisher in the U.S., behind DC Comics and Marvel, IDW said. Separately, EA’s Phenomic studio said its real-time strategy game BattleForge is the first title to leverage Microsoft’s DirectX 11 and AMD’s new ATI graphic processor chipset. The game is EA’s first “Play4Free” online game.