EA announced today that it has successfully gobbled up both Bioware Corp. and Pandemic Studios as part of its balanced breakfast, as the company has completed its acquisition of VG Holding Corp.
EA Games label president Frank Gibeau will be overseeing the studios, while Bioware's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have been made Vice Presidents of EA and Co-General Managers of Bioware Corp. Andrew Goldman and Josh Resnick of Pandemic Studios have also been named Vice Presidents of EA, and Co-General Managers of Pandemic Studios, with Greg Borrud as another Vice President of EA and Chief Production officer of Pandemic.
It's okay, I didn't understand any of that either. The important thing here is that two development studios known for their outstanding work have been absorbed by EA Games like so many others before them. Do you see this as EA swallowing everything in sight, or as two very deserving studios getting some strong financial backing? Hit the comments and let us know what you think.
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12:48 PM on 01.07.2008
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I do fear for the monopoly aspect though, because competition never hurts anyone.
Hopefully EA will back off, and let them be creative, and just throw money at them.
Here's to hoping we get a LOT of Green Day on the soundtrack.
They should eat up those EW Jim dudes, I here they need some money.
*collects thoughts, shuffles papers*
...
"FUCK."
This news is so old... so very, very old. It's nearly a month now that this has been true.
So... is this a joke? Or are you seriously that fucking late to the party?
Now I am 100% certain. Gives me more mass effect soon :)
Dunno if its a bad thing or not. Perhaps bioware will slowly become a used husk, perhaps they will keep their integrity and creativity like say infinity ward; possibly by allowing some of their francises to be raped on a bianual basis by another game developer. Something they already have experiance of with KOTOR2, some might say.
More shitty sports games no doubt.
Also, notice they didn't fuck with Rock Band. Harmonix seems pretty happy to be part of EA to me. It's the dicks at Activision that are going to ruin games. We're going to be playing Guitar Hero 25 when we're senior citizens. fucking whores.
Also, Topher = amazing at shooping things.
But since then they've strived to repair their image. Look at their most recent output, Skate, Fight Night & Rock Band.
Couple this with the huge improvement the likes of FIFA has made in that period of time too, closing the gap on Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer.
They've also got behind some games that would otherwise not even be published in certain areas. Games like Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath wouldn't of seen the light of day without EA publishing it (I seem to remember numerous previews in GamesTM where it was mentioned that it didn't have a publisher yet) and of course We Love Katamari wouldn't of been released in Europe.
But, to state that Bioware will have more financial backing at EA seems a bit off, after all, their past four games have been for Microsoft Game Studio's, a company with financial input from the biggest software manufacturer in the world.
I think that mergers like this will become a necessity if developers want to have the budget they really need to make that next great quality game. I think everyone needs to stop worrying, just think of the main movie studios out there that have so many different kinds of talent making movies with them. It's the same thing and EA isn't all about squandering talent and innovation like everyone seems to think they are.
Like RivaOni said, just look at Skate, Fight Night, and Rock Band. Those are some quality franchises, innovative franchises. Madden may be a roster update in shinier gear every year, but at least all that money those suckers are spending on Madden is going to get put use by BioWare and Pandemic now.
Bottom line: Good Deal
and I know there's more...... they give us crap with a few gems sprinkled in it. The first 2 Tomb Raiders and Hitman 2 through Blood Money were good, also the Deus Ex series. That's about all I have to say about them.
Hate them if you need to hate a publisher.