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EA Drops Part Of Pandemic Studios [Disturbance In The Workforce: Rumor]
kotaku.com - 1/14/2009
EA Drops Part Of Pandemic Studios [Disturbance In The Workforce: Rumor]
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Electronics Arts has shuffled off Pandemic Studios' Brisbane office, a reliable source told Kotaku. The Australian developer was best known for Destroy All Humans! and its development of an ill-fated and ultimately canceled Batman game. According to the information we were provided, Pandemic's ...

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EA drops part of Pandemic
GoNintendo — ... to be trimming the fat. The fat in this instance, is Pandemic’s Brisbane office. That means that EA isn’t letting all of Pandemic go, but they are doing away with a portion of it. In the words of one of the studio’s employees, “It was more of a ‘Find a new publisher. Good luck.’ kind of thing.” The latest project that the Brisbane studio was working on was The Next Big Thing for Wii, which was described as an ‘open world reality show’. No word on what is happening with this project. Link This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 9:58 pm and is filed under ...

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