Electronic Arts Cancelling Over a Dozen Projects

poindat - 39 days 12 hours ago

There goes innovation flying out the door. Just as EA was starting to look up (content wise, at least) as well... A very big shame indeed.

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DiffusionE - 39 days 11 hours ago

Too bad for the 1500 ex-employees. Hope they land another job soon.

Game project-wise, it could actually be a blessing in the long run. Focusing on games with higher probability of success doesn't sound all that bad, that is, if you neglect the current situation. Oh well, now they're gonna need us more than ever, which is a good opportunity for us.

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Cheeseknight28 - 39 days 10 hours ago

Hopefully Dead Space will still see a true sequel, even after Extraction's poor sales.

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Blaster_Master - 39 days 10 hours ago

I wish I knew which games they canceled. Tis a sad day for gaming.

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rob6021 - 39 days 10 hours ago

I remember seeing something about them working on a new syndicate sequel.. damn i hope that's not one of the games.

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kaveti6616 - 39 days 10 hours ago

Goodbye Mirror's Edge 2, we hardly knew ye.

Dead Space 2 will surely come out with a much larger marketing campaign.

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blusoops - 39 days 10 hours ago

In these harsh times multiplat is the way to go.

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skullsealer - 39 days 10 hours ago

hopefully road rash wasn't canceled it looked so good and was probably the only EA game i was really excited about in the future

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PLAYSTATIONGENRATION - 39 days 9 hours ago

Every tie they buy a couple of studios they....lay people off like 2 or 3 years later

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primordialmeme - 39 days 9 hours ago

Bleh. Stupid greedy EA.

Give us another Madden game with a new roster for F#%&ing $60. Im getting so bored with games.

Now EA web marketers will press disagree.

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Magna Farta - 39 days 9 hours ago

I find it a little hard to believe that they're financially struggling.

I mean, I know they've absorbed some losses, I know Brutal Legend didn't sell as well as they hoped, despite a great marketing campaign (pairing Riggs with Dethklok for that short was genius), and Dead Space Extraction was DOA on the Wii (Looks great, but Wii owners don't usually open their wallets for anything that's not Mario or Zelda).

This kinda sucks to hear too, considering EA was finally pulling their head out of their ass and releasing some great looking original games. Hell, Dead Space was about as close to an "Event Horizon"-type game as we were ever gonna get.

But now, EA's tightening their wallets, and that means anything that isn't EA Sports or SIMS is gonna get the boot.

Fun while it lasted, I guess.

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morkendo - 39 days 6 hours ago

from sarcasm
Well here's hoping the next Need for Speed by Criterion and BFBC2 sells well.

until EA provide a list of games canceled lets not jump the gun on criterion's NEED FOR SPEED not being dev yet. Im hoping this one better than shift....... "hotpursuit 3 or highstakes 2"

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morkendo - 39 days 6 hours ago

Criterion, the studio behind Burnout, are at work on a "revolutionary take" on the Need For Speed franchise. When's it out? Well, according to EA's Frank Gibeau, it'll be out next year.

OHHHH HELL YELL!!!

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Arnon - 38 days 18 hours ago

Lol they better keep:

Visceral Games Projects
DICE Projects
BioWare Projects

going...

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