The past few years have seen the closure of some of Australia’s biggest studios. This year alone we’ve lost two THQ-owned studios and just last week we heard that EA would be closing Visceral Games. Most of the talk surrounding the closures has been about the state of the industry, which is an important discussion to have, but what about the developers themselves? What do all these closures mean for them? Kotaku spoke to some Aussie game devs to find out.
Readers of Kotaku can discern this week that EA CEO John Riccitiello covered many topics in his interview with this site earlier in the week. One of those, of course, was Pandemic which was all but shut down lasrt month.
According to game site Bitmob, this trailer for Mercenaries Inc., a multiplayer entry in the Mercenaries franchise is a few months old, but real.
Last week Electronic Arts put a bullet in the head of Pandemic Studios, putting many of their 200 staff out of work a week before Thanksgiving.
Early this morning we broke the news that Electronic Arts planned to close down Pandemic Studios. Now we have confirmation.
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.
