Electronic Arts/Logo Variations

These are the logo variations seen throughout the years by Electronic Arts, with more to be added overtime.

Need For Speed 2 (1997, PS1): A EA logo with  text is seen zooming in through three projected circles with car noises in the background.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone (2001, PS1): The logo appears on a black background instead of a white one.

Rumble Racing (2001): Instead of the normal logo, a ring spins around, creating a cloud of smoke, and zooms to the right side.

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002): The logo has different sounds.

Sid Meier's SimGolf (2002): The logo appears through some clouds.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002): The golden ring of power appears in a fire and rotates to the logo.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, GBA): The current logo is still and lies on a parchment.

Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005): The logo starts off normally, but just before we hear "Challenge Everything", the logo fades to sepia tone and the quality deteriorates, much like a 1940s style movie.

Black (2006): The logo is pale -tinted with interlacing.

The Sims series/SimCity Societies/MySims series (2006-2013): The shield has a outline and white letters, while the surface is gradient. A emerald (also known as a Plumbob in game) shines above the logo.
 * The first Sims game to use this logo was The Sims 2: Glamour Life Stuff and the last one being The Sims 3: Into the Future.
 * Until The Sims 2: Freetime, the logo had an EA byline. It animates in a similar way as their "Challenge Everything" logo.
 * The version on SimCity Societies lacks the PlumBob part, so the logo fades out after the logo's music.

Medal of Honor: Heroes (2006): The logo is a military badge with six stars on the top and bottom of the badge. It has the EA byline below.

Superman Returns (2006):
 * PS2 version: The logo is a outline created with  sparks. The EA byline appears below.


 * DS version: The shield glows coral, with the byline below.

Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix (2007) and The Half-Blood Prince (2009): The logo is (or ) with  letters and outline and an emboss effect.

Theme Park (2007, DS): The logo is a balloon. A copyright date appears below.

Skate (2007): The background is a paper sheet, and the circle resembles a trace left by a drink cup.

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars (2007): The glows rise on behind, showing the crystals of tiberium. The circle collapses around the logo.

Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007): The logo is formed by a spinning wheel, which turns into a circle. It then goes to the game's safe driving disclaimer, where the wheel is actually placed onto a modified Mazda RX-7.

Hellgate: London (2007): The logo is surrounded with a circle of runes.

Medal of Honor: Vanguard (2007): The logo is formed in a storm cloud, and lightning flashes behind it. The EA byline appears below.

Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007): We see close-ups of a logo lying, shadowed by war pictures on the background. The colors are mostly. Then the logo becomes normally visible, while the war shots still continue. The logo zooms into the camera.

Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (2007): The logo is formed over black skies, while the warfare goes on below, we see fire traces and the screen trembles (as it could be near missile explosions). The logo has the EA byline.

Orcs & Elves (2007, DS): There are a lot of coins around.

Bartender (2007, DS): The logo is neon and.

Dragon Zakura (2007, DS): There are blossoms on a light blue shield.

EA Playground (2007):
 * DS version: There are splashes around and a landscape inside the shield.


 * Wii version: An logo pops up followed with cartoon clouds.

SimCity (2007, DS): The logo is a golden relief on a lilac- gradient shield.

Sommelier (2007, DS): The logo is on a seal.

Pogo Island (2007, DS): The logo has an intense color. The EA byline appears below.

Smarty Pants (2007): The logo is on the same background.

Crysis (2007) and Crysis: Warhead (2008): The logo is a plate with six  lamps on its edge. They light on, then the center of the logo also lights up in a color.

Dead Space (2008): Blood drops fly all over the stafield, when a light appears and a black version of the logo is shown.

Mirror's Edge (2008): A and white logo is on a white background and is on the print of Faith's shoes, which it fades out, leaving the logo intact.

Mass Effect (2008): The logo has light shining from the center.

Boom Blox (2008): The logo is attached to a cube. The letters are black.

Nerf N-Strike: The Video Game (2008): The logo is with four sticks making it similar to the target. This also happens in Nerf N-Strike Elite.

Ninja Reflex (2008, DS): The logo is yellow- with a picture of katana.

Army of Two (2008): The background is dark blue, and the logo is with some order elements attached to the bottom.

Mercenaries 2 (2008, PS2): The shield is painted like a tattoo.

Battlefield: Bad Company (2008): We see a grenade bumping on the floor, having a yellow badge attached to it. The badge has a smiley face on one side and the EA logo with black letters on the other side. Then we proceed to the DICE logo.

Skate It (2008): We see a filmstrip moving, showing the ruins of a city, and then an old, faded out and burned out version of the logo (in a yellow color) appears. The letters are dark red.

Brain Quest (2008): The shield is dark blue and the background is light blue. A copyright date appears below.

Littlest Pet Shop (2008): The logo is and pale  and lies on a gradient sky.

The version for Wii is animated, showing a steamroller emerging steam, which transforms into the logo.

Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (2008): Glowing segments appear, forming a scorpion tail. The circle grows around and the EA logo appears.

Spore (2008): The logo is white with letters. It is set in a starfield. The logo explodes into a vortex.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008): The logo zooms out through a map of the world. A hammer and sickle are seen inside, surrounded by moving rays.

Populous (2008, DS): The logo lies on a wooden wheel.

Spore Creatures (2008, DS): The shield is solid white, and the text is.

Travel Games for Dummies (2008, DS): The logo is yellow with rough borders.

Need for Speed: Undercover (2008): The logo's circle is revealed from shadowy lights and mist.

Burnout Paradise (2008): The logo smashes into the screen, then after two seconds, the circle bursts into flames. Suddenly after that, a circle with the game's setting (Paradise City) and the Illuminati in it appears. When that happens, two ribbons, one on each side draw themselves in a black fancy font, Paradise City draws itself in, while we see blood splatters at the back of the logo. We then hear the sounds of a car starting (which is actually from two cars in the game, the Nakamura Ikusa GT and the Jansen P12). The logo then zooms in quickly.

The Godfather II (2009): The background is white with blood spuding everywhere and one of the drops represent the EA logo with the letters in white. The camera keeps moving down and blood oozes from the logo.

Need for Speed: Shift (2009, Android): The logo is black with a 3D grid behind it and it is crushed to particles clockwise.

The Saboteur (2009): Blood makes a path on the paper, then a click is heard and a black version of the EA logo appears, made with two sprays.

Brutal Legend (2009): The logo resembles kind of a steel biker sign with an evil muzzle below. After a few seconds, blood is poured onto the logo.

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (2009, DS): The logo is on a monocle.

Hasbro Family Game Night 2 (2009): The game logo converts to a and gleamy version of the EA shield.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, PSP): The shield is badly damaged and shines.

Battlefield 1943 (2009): The logo is designed as a letter from Iwo Jima, with the words "NOV 16 1943" and "IWO JIMA" on it. It is in grayscale and still.

Need for Speed: Nitro (2009): The logo is black and the background is sprayed with yellow paint. Then it suddenly changes to a smaller logo over a white background, and then to the game's logo.

There is a still version for DS.

Zubo (2009): The shield is and has a little branch.

Charm Girls Club (2009): The logo is on a bouncing locket, and the background is psychedelic  with falling shines. The version for DS has the same logo, but still.

Shounen Oni Ninden Tsumuji (2009, DS): The shield has a safari background.

Scrabble (2009, DS): The logo is carved on a wooden chip. A reflection can be seen on the ground, similar to Hasbro Family Game Night.

Trivial Pursuit (2009): Colored elements form the logo, followed by the EA wordmark. A reflection is slightly visible, like Hasbro Family Game Night.

Dante's Inferno (2009): A fabric with an attached cross is dragged through the screen. The logo is burned black on it. Then it follows with the Visceral Games logo, and the cross is shown again.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010): We see moving sketches of the military transport from the top. All of them are surrounded in a circle, forming the EA logo.

Mass Effect 2 (2010): The logo is set on a starfield. It is moon with a crack, and the letters are.

Flips (2010): There are yellow- book leafs on the background.

Monopoly (2010, DS): The shield is and relief.

Rock Band 3 (2010, DS): The EA emblem is on a guitar pick.

Medal of Honor (2010): The letters are black, while a warfare takes place inside the logo, and we see flying debris.

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (2010): Seen from the top, a war device hits the ground, unfolds and shows a glowing logo.

Army of Two: The 40th Day (2010): The logo is a stamp on some kind of packing material, then it burns out.

Shank (2010): The logo is a brush-drawn circle placed over a cowboy landscape.

DeathSpank (2010): The logo is a chipped plate with butter yellow letters.

Create (2010): There is a landscape at the background and a spark runs over the logo.

RISK: Factions (2010): The black-and-white logo is made on a world map.

Dragon Age 2 (2010): Many tentacles get sucked inside the EA logo, which has the same appearance as in Dragon Age: Origins. The logo then explodes, releasing a dragon, which flies and emerges flames, and this continues with the BioWare logo.

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010): The logo is on a waving fabric with some pictures on the left and right.

Crysis 2 (2011): The logo is a signal plate without lights.

Dead Space: Aftermath (2011): The same structure as in Dead Space 2, but sharper.

Bulletstorm (2011): In a rapid first-view action, we move forward and kick off the EA logo made on a shattered yellow shield. Other logos proceed after this.

Shift 2: Unleashed (2011): The logo is metallic and transparent over a close view of asphalt.

Rango (2011): The logo has a Wild West design. A bullet hits it and makes it roll.

Alice: Madness Returns (2011): The logo is made of numerous wobbling chunks, colored in tones of.

Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011): An light moves from the center and reveals the logo in a golden color. A light shines from behind.

Shadows of the D*mned (2011): A ghostly version of the EA shield is wiped over a nighty landscape.

Battlefield 3 (2011): The logo is -white and constantly flickers.

Need for Speed: The Run (2011): The logo is golden-colored and is on a map of the United States.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011): The logo is metallic and has lightning crossing over it. The background is stormy. It zooms in like the Warner Bros. Pictures variant from the film.

A different background was used for the DS version.

Mass Effect 3 (2012): The logo is revealed through a portal apparatus with the BioWare logo following it.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012): The logo has an ornate golden frame, which shines.

Syndicate (2012): The logo is made from a dotting network, with the shield in and the EA wordmark in.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012): The logo looks like an explosion with a few fragments flying.

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (2013): The logo is made out of wood and there are plant roots around it and the flower is above the "EA" part.

Crysis 3 (2013): The logo is a signal plate with  lights.

Need for Speed Rivals (2013): The logo is briefly revealed on a asphalt.

Army of Two: Devil's Cartel (2013): The logo is composed from metal parts on a sparkling background.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (2014): The logo spins in from the right zooming out. The outline is made out of grass, and the EA wordmark is. Then a zombie's hand while saying "Brains!" appears and tries to grab the "EA" text, but the plants' roots grand the zombie's hand and pulls it down causing the logo to spin into the PopCap logo.

This was designed by Petrol Advertising. The logo was shortlisted at the 2013 Clio Entertainment Awards for audiovisual design, but lost to the 20th Century Fox The Wolverine Japanese trailer variant.

Titanfall (2014): The logo is made on a piece of metal machinery.

Need for Speed (2014, Movie): The logo is on a sepia-toned background, like the other studio logos.

The Sims series (2014-present): The logo zooms in with moving colors that are the same as the Plumbob, then the logo turns white and 3D as the Maxis logo forms. The Sims 4 is the first game to use this logo.

Battlefield Hardline (2015): The logo (in a grainy white color) is briefly shown, then flashes and vanishes.