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EA Kills Blueprint, Plans More Boom Blox

Electronic Arts’ mysterious Blueprint division is no more, according to a report from Variety. Formerly lead by EA LA vet Neil Young, the shrouded-in-secrecy project was reportedly established to create lower cost content with smaller teams based on original intellectual property. One of those unnamed projects was being developed by former Metroid Prime developers at start up Armature, but the majority of what Blueprint worked on was never publicly disclosed. It was said to be focusing some of its efforts on casual games targeted at social networking platforms.


June 19, 2008
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Electronic Arts Veteran Neil Young Quits

According to an internal email forwarded to Newsweek’s Level Up, long time Electronic Arts fixture Neil Young—pictured contemplating something—has left the company. Young had been at EA for over a decade, heading up EA’s Los Angeles studio and, prior to leaving, the EA Blueprint division. The EA Blueprint endeavour was an attempt by the mega-publisher to create lower cost content with smaller teams based on original intellectual property.