In its third quarter results yesterday, EA announced that it was to lose a further 100 jobs, raising the total to 1,100. The company gave some details on how it intends to manage costs aggressively over the...

In its Q3 conference call, Electronic Arts has announced that it is taking a goodwill impairment charge in its wireless business of $368 million. I take “its wireless business” to mean Jamdat, which EA acquired in 2005...

Joystiq reports that Mythic Online has laid off a number of staff including 21 customer service employees, half of QA and all of the playtest group. The job losses are not added to the GameOverZone as they...

Details remain obscure, and sources anonymous, but light is gradually being shed on the apparent closure of Pandemic’s Brisbane arm, as reported earlier in the week. The new info is broadly in two areas: what went wrong,...

At a keynote at SMU’s Law School, Mitch Lasky argued that the industry has got its focus all wrong: Content innovation drives audience growth, but “distribution innovation drives value creation“. (Source: GamaSutra) Mitch has the track record...

Rumours have surfaced at Kotaku that EA has shut down Pandemic Brisbane. It’s an odd rumour, with the site quoting a reliable source that there have been no redundancies but the studio has been “set free”. I...

In an update to a previously announced round of redundancies, Electronic Arts has announced it will be reducing its workforce by 10%, raising the redundancy total to 1,000. Restructuring charges will increase to $55-65 million with planned...