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Confirmed: EA Closes Pandemic Studios, Says Brand Will Live On
6:20AM Brian Crecente | Early this morning we broke the news that Electronic Arts planned to close down Pandemic Studios. Now we have confirmation. More »
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Rumour: RIP Pandemic Studios, 1998-2009
11:30PM Luke Plunkett | 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. More »
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7:00AM Stephen Totilo | The build I played of The Saboteur this week was a month old, so if I had fun and was impressed, what does that mean? More »
The Saboteur Impressions: It’s Not Just Black And White
7:00AM Stephen Totilo | The build I played of The Saboteur this week was a month old, so if I had fun and was impressed, what does that mean? More »
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Who You Can Kill, Who You Can’t
4:40AM Stephen Totilo | While I was playing an early PlayStation 3 version of EA’s December World War II game, The Saboteur, yesterday, I was told not to worry about running over certain characters. The game’s developers, see, had to decide whose death matters. More »
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3:21PM David Wildgoose | Pandemic’s Brisbane studio is no more, the result of ongoing cost and headcount reductions throughout Electronic Arts. To put it kindly, EA restored the studio’s independence; in effect, they washed their hands of several years of aborted projects and management decisions. In the aftermath, we have heard from several inside sources who have each shared their thoughts on how it all went wrong.
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How Pandemic’s Dark Knight Turned Into A Nightmare
3:21PM David Wildgoose | Pandemic’s Brisbane studio is no more, the result of ongoing cost and headcount reductions throughout Electronic Arts. To put it kindly, EA restored the studio’s independence; in effect, they washed their hands of several years of aborted projects and management decisions. In the aftermath, we have heard from several inside sources who have each shared their thoughts on how it all went wrong.
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Rumor: EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios Down Under
11:40AM Michael McWhertor | Electronics Arts has shuffled off Pandemic Studios’ Brisbane office, a reliable source tells Kotaku. The Australian developer was best known for Destroy All Humans! and its rumoured development of an ill-fated Batman game. More »
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Gary Oldman Confirms Dark Knight Game
1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | The Dark Knight is out. Where’s the game? In an interview with G4 TV, thespian Gary Oldman let it slip that a Dark Knight game is “in the works”. He described how Lieutenant Gordan is in a small scene on top of the Major Crime Unit building when Batman “jumps off the building and opened his wings to fly away and save the day” — “so it doesn’t stop and start”, says Oldman, “like you’re watching a movie”. In the now since pulled interview clip, Oldman did not mention the developer or release date. Rumour has it that Pandemic is working on the title. Neato. ‘Dark Knight’ Game Leaks [The Feed] More »
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Mercenaries 2 Officially Delayed By EA
10:38AM Michael McWhertor | Electronic Arts announced its quarterly earnings today, officially delaying Mercenaries 2: World In Flames to fiscal year 2009. The game was rumoured to have been pushed back from its February release date to August based on retailer listings, with EA officially now providing an April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009 shipping window for the Pandemic Studios shooter. EA execs did not clarify a more specific date in today’s quarterly earnings conference call. The company provided the same window of release for Battlefield: Bad Company, a Digital Illusions co-op shooter originally slated for a 2007 release. We’ll, of course, let you know when we hear more solid release dates for these two shoot-fests. More »Mercenaries 2 Still Pretty
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