joystiq.com - 8/1/2009
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After EA shuttered the Australian arm of Mercenaries dev house Pandemic Studios , a few projects were lost to the ether. A game based on the enormously popular film Dark Knight for 360 / PS3 as well as an "open-world Nintendo Wii game" were both rumored to be on the way from the Brisbane, ...
australiangamer.com - 7/30/2009
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australiangamer.com —
Almost every day I'm reminded of the closure
of Pandemic Studios in Brisbane, Australia - due to...
the fact that I walk past their old offices almost every second day, literally a few minutes walk from...
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News: Pandemic's Next Big Thing
kotaku.com - 7/30/2009
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kotaku.com —
Pandemic Studios was working on a Wii game
called The Next Big Thing . It's been canned,...
but here's a trailer of what could've have been, well, the next big thing. Pandemic Studios Brisbane closed earlier this year . The embedded clip features ...
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With Mr. T, This Could Been The Next Big Thing [Clips]
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Saturday Consolidation
Blue's News —
Saturday Consolidation [Aug 01, 2009, 12:57 pm ET] - Post a Comment The Mercury News interview- Shigeru Miyamoto, head of game development, Nintendo . PS3 Slim listing sited in the wilds of Amazon . Xbox LIVE Preview Program Wave 3 has begun (and an update for 1st an 2nd wave) . Destructoid's SDCC- Alan Wake Interview on YouTube . Sony Aware Of Fat Princess Online Issues, Working On Solution . Canceled Pandemic Wii title wanted to be 'The Next Big Thing' . Tropico 3 Xbox 360 Screenshots . Madden NFL 10 Nintendo Wii ...
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Pandemic Studios Closes
bingegamer.net 14 days ago —
Full Spectrum Warrior . Star Wars: Battlefront . Destroy All Humans . Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction . All of these games as well as the upcoming title The Saboteur were developed by Pandemic Studios. The success of these games drove Electronic Arts to purchase Pandemic, along with ...
Rumor: RIP Pandemic Studios, 1998-2009 - pandemic studios
kotaku.com 15 days ago — Pandemic Studios - the developers behind Star Wars: Battlefront and Mercenaries - will today be closed down by owners Electronic Arts , according to several sources close to the situation. It's not the first time we've heard this - far from it - but ...
Rumor: Pandemic Studios to close today
incomingpull.blogspot.com 14 days ago — Kotaku has just reported on the possibility that Pandemic Studios — the minds behind the upcoming WWII-fashioned The Saboteur — are closing its doors today. Source here . We'll update ICP as news comes in. It's a sad time to be in the video games industry, indeed. Tune in to Incoming Pull ...
Icrontic: Our eulogy for Pandemic Studios
gaming.icrontic.com 14 days ago — It has been confirmed today that Pandemic Studios is being shuttered by EA. While never having a major blockbuster title, the studio, and the people who worked there, had heart. Icrontic celebrates the people behind the mask.
Pandemic Studios Closes Its Doors
gogaminggiant.com 14 days ago — Today, Electronic Arts cut 1,500 jobs, 200 of which included Pandemic Studios, the developer behind Mercenaries, Full Spectrum Warrior, and Star Wars: Battlefront.
EA Responds to Pandemic Rumor [Distrubance In The Workforce]
kotaku.com 1/14/2009 — In the face of rumors that Pandemic's Brisbane, Australia studio has been let go, Electronic Arts said today that their upcoming cuts will effect studios, but declined to be more specific. “In December, EA announced a cost reduction initiative that ...
Rumor: Mercenaries Dev Pandemic Closing (Updated)
shacknews.com 14 days ago — Update 2 : Studio owner Electronic Arts has chimed in , explaining that "a core team of Pandemic developers will move to EALA" and continue the Pandemic brand.
Update: "It's official, pandemic is shut down as of today," reads a tweet from ...
Need for Speed: Shift video —
Computer And Video Games 7/31/2009
Names the pro drivers involved in the game.
The footage in the below trailer for EA's stunning Need for Speed: Shift is so realistic it's almost like they just filmed real cars and didn't include any gameplay footage whatsoever. Oh wait... Click ...
News: UK chart: Wii Sports Resort holds lead —
Eurogamer 8/3/2009
As Monster Hunter drops out of sight. Wii Sports Resort spends another week atop the UK all-formats charts this week, enjoying a marginal bump in sales. Wii Fit rises to two, while EA trio Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Harry Potter and the ...
Pandemic racer was culled by EA —
play.tm 8/2/2009
The Next Big Thing... wasn't Pandemic Australia is long gone, and with the collapse of the development studio we can see what the studio was working on; a cartoon-style, multiplayer Wii racer. The now defunct title was apparently set to be called ...
DSi sales stay strong in Japan —
play.tm 7/31/2009
But everything else is... 'sluggish' After last week's Dragon Quest IX-powered bonanza, sales of the DSi were bound to slow down a little in Japan. Still, Nintendo are unlikely to be displeased with last week's sales performance, their handheld ...
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