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gamasutra.com - 26 days ago

Layoffs Hit Electronic Arts Studios Tiburon, Black Box, Redwood Shores, Mythic

— gamasutra.com — Electronic Arts issued a round of layoffs today that affected wholly-owned EA Redwood Shores, EA Tiburon, Mythic... Entertainment, and EA Black Box locations, according to Gamasutra sources and web reports. EA Black Box is best known as the home for a ... (more) Layoffs Hit Electronic Arts Studios Tiburon, Black Box, ...

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kotaku.com - 26 days ago

Rumor: EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout [Rumor]

— kotaku.com — Electronic Arts has taken the ax to hundreds of employees at locations in Burnaby, Orlando and San... Francisco today, according to chatter from former EA employees, issuing layoffs the same day it confirms a buyout of social gaming publisher Playfish. ... (more) Rumor: EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout [Rumor]

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marketwatch.com - 26 days ago

Electronic Arts sets 1,500 job cuts as losses grow

— marketwatch.com — Alert Email Print By Dan Gallagher , MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Electronic Arts Inc. reported a... wider quarterly loss on Monday and announced plans to lay off as many as 1,500 workers in an effort to reduce costs, as the video-game ... (more) Electronic Arts sets 1,500 job cuts as losses grow

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John Riccitiello

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Big Download Blog:  EA signs deal to have its music be licensed by others

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The Escapist : Latest News:  EA Signs Licensing Deal for Original Game Music

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Variety: Harry Potter vidgames to get Extreme Music: http://bit.ly/4uf17M (via @XanderSliwinski) - they meant Rock Band 11/3/2009

RT @jamesspeedy: embarrassing Variety, please hire folks that know the "vidgame" industry. What is "Rock Star"? http://bit.ly/4uf17M 11/3/2009

RT: @XanderSliwinski What game is that in the first sentence: http://bit.ly/4uf17M (Here's your "lolwut" of the day) 11/3/2009

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EA signs deal to have its music be licensed by others
Big Download Blog — Filed under: Culture We have seen games license music from others but soon you may hear game music tunes in other areas like movies and TV shows. Variety reports that Electronic Arts has signed a five year deal with Extreme Music to have them represent over 2,000 music cues from EA's game music library to other ...

Deal to see EA music licensed for TV commercials, movie trailers
Joystiq — Electronic Arts has signed on the dotted line for Extreme Music to represent its catalog of 2,000 original pieces of music for five years. Variety reports that Extreme will place the publisher's owned music in things like television commercials, movie trailers and anything else that Extreme sees fit -- and EA agrees to -- putting the ...

EA Signs Licensing Deal for Original Game Music
The Escapist : Latest News — Electronic Arts has signed a licensing deal for its library of original music that means you could soon be hearing familiar videogame tunes in movies, television shows, commercials and more. Videogame music - not the kind in Guitar Hero or Rock Band but original, "real" game music - just doesn't get much respect. It's been an integral part of the overall game experience for years, from the opening beats of E1M1 to the closing genius of Portal , yet in the eyes (and ears) of most people, gamers included, it's often overlooked as a sort of invisible background effect, like lettering in a comic book. The new five-year deal between EA ...