EA staffer plays history revisionist on Wikipedia

Quantum Leap Owned! LOL Now Dr Sam Becket must Leap back and Assassinate everybody and anybody who put money into EA to save the future. Or At least to put a smile on my face.

hmm. I wikipedia is the name dictionary

1. Wikipedia troll from EA
2. Trolls hate pirates when they ignore them while traveling on their ships.
3. Pirates wore eye patches for night vision.
4. How can you kill what has no life?
5. Trolls have night vision.
6. EA became a monopoly due to night vision.

Yet another reason why any game that has the EA logo on it makes me never want to touch it.

Damnit, when are people going to learn? If you change wikipedia wrongfully, you're going to get caught.

They're just trying to spread EA's wikiality.

http://www.wikiality.com/Wikiality

The Quantum Leap reference really made me laugh hard. Bravo Alex, Bravo.

When you stop and think about it, this is a serious problem in more ways than one. First, it shows that EA is trying to alter what is essentially public record. Second, it points out that folks at EA are well aware that they've done some unacceptable things, and would rather not own up to them.

There are so many things wrong with all that, I don't even know where to begin.

I love this new Wikipedia IP tracker. Very interesting stuff being uncovered.

For some pretty f-ed up edits, you can check out this link (you can vote for what you think is worst and also send in your own):

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/

Joystiq should do an old fashioned "Quantum Leap Week" and reference Quantum Leap with every news bit within that week.

Ziggy predicts that Joystiq would raise the readerships' overall happiness by 77.45%.

Oh boy!

I knew EA killed JFK, I could just never quite place how...

more than likely, this is a rouge EA employee that did this on their own, not realizing what kind of stink it would cause. Now that's it's come to the publics attention, IT at EA will proberly track down the work station attached to that IP(finding out what building it came from, and searching the history of inside users that accessed the wikipedia address....), and the PR department will give them a stern talking to.
Either that, or EA is more wicked than I once thought.

Some of this criticism is unfair. I have learned quite a bit from reading EA's Wikipedia page over the years.

In 1982, shortly after inventing the world's first videogame, Larry Probst founded Electronic Arts, a spectacularly successful software company.

It was Probst's personal experiences in winning the World Chess Championships and in single-handedly defeating an army of evil that led him to create the stragegy/action game Archon, which received Famitsu's first ever 41/40 score.

Probst followed up this blockbuster hit with the sports classic One on One: Dr. J vs. Probst. This basketball simulation was later rebranded and released as One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird because in the original version it was almost impossible for Dr. J to top Probst's mad streetball skills.

There has been some controversy, however, during Electronic Arts history. In recent years, an employee sued Electronic Arts because the work environment was so stimulating and fun that he had a smile permanently fixed to his face. Also, he found his relationships with wife, friends, and family unsatisfying in comparison with his exhilarating job. The suit was eventually settled, with the employee receiving an autographed picture of Probst as compensation.

In 2007, John Riccitiello took over as CEO when Probst became too fucking awesome for this plane of existence and ascended to another dimension.

IM IN UR TIMESTREEM ALTURING UR FUTURZ

He for a second I thought that was cockmongler ha.

I love the new "wikipedia scandel" section in the EA entry. Looks like their plans really backfired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#Wikipedia_Scandal

And this is why I love wikipedia.

Yet another reason to avoid EA - I really wonder why Peter Moore went there...

(Except for the buckets of cash they threw at him, of course...)

I hate to break it to you guys but companies do this all the time. They usually just don't get caught. It's often a small part of online marketing / PR efforts.

If anything, the saddest part for EA is that it wasn't savvy enough to mask its moves better.

this is nothin, you guys should look into what the CIA and FBI have been editing

EA, you make me sad.

What.... no 1984 reference? Forshame joystiq, for shame.

Just to clarify Ralph Baer created the first and is the father of video games.

Hello good-bye.

It's official, EA came before Jesus, and was fonded y Henry VIII.

Now I have the Quantum Leap song stuck in my head. Awesome.

Wikipedia = fact.