Pandemic Studios to Close

Pandemic Studios, the game developer purchased by EA 2 years ago, will be shutting its doors. This is the result of EA's plan to lay off 1500 people to cut costs. About 200 people will lose their jobs from this closure, with about 25 people being transferred to other studios. Pandemic was started by former Activision Blizzard employees in 1997, and produced games such as Mercenaries and Full Spectrum Warrior. Its last game, Saboteur, will be released next month.

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Danz (mendingecho@hotmail.com) on November 18, 2009 05:39PM Stupid EA. Now we'll never see sw battlefront 3. =( reply to this

bilcliff on November 18, 2009 11:29PM i hate big corporations. "lets lay off workers in order to cut costs so we can pay our directors and ceo's millions more". especially in a company like EA where the sales don't come from director decisions they come from making good games. good games come from good programmers. Not overworked programmers reply to this

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