Goodbye, Don Mattrick! 5 Things The Last Xbox King Brought Us

2. EA Sports

Electronic Arts had been making sports games in a few major franchises for years by the time of DSI’s acquisition, but it wasn’t until Mattrick got involved that the label exploded. Their NHL series began in 1991, FIFA and NCAA Football in 1993, NBA in 1995, Knockout Kings in 1998, then their “extreme sports” games under their BIG sub-sub-label in the early aughts, the majority of which were built at Mattrick’s EA Canada studios.