Nov. 11, before heading to Lima for the Maplestory Mesos second leg four days later to decide who goes to next year's finals in Russia. (Reporting by Andrew Downie; Editing by Ken Ferris) Game publisher EA's holiday-quarter sales forecast misses estimates | Daily Mail Online

By Aishwarya Venugopal Oct 31 (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc's revenue forecast for the holiday quarter narrowly missed estimates on Tuesday as the game developer gears to face tough competition from rivals such as Activision.Shares of the videogame publisher that closed up nearly 2 percent were down 3.4 percent at $115.60 in after-market trading.

The company forecast third-quarter adjusted revenue of $2 billion, a tad lower than the analysts' average estimate of $2.01 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S."We always try to be conservative... Christmas is always the toughest time to predict how business is going to be," Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen told Reuters.EA's holiday quarter launches include.

Star Wars Battlefront II" on Nov. 17 and buy Maplestory 2 Mesos "Need for Speed Payback" on Nov. 10.The company expects "Star Wars Battlefront II" to replicate the success of the previous version that sold over 14 million units in the fiscal year 2016."They had two big games last year in Q3 - "Titanfall" and "Battlefield" and have "Star Wars Battlefront" and "Need for Speed" in this year's Q3 that should result in roughly flat year-over-year performance, but they are being exceedingly conservative.