gamespot.com - 1/21/2009
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Source: See below. What we heard: Electronic Arts may be one of the biggest third-party publishers in the gaming industry, but that fact hasn't saved it from the worsening global economic crisis. Reporting on its financial performance during the July-September quarter in October, EA announced ...
thegreenskin.com - 1/23/2009
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thegreenskin.com —
It seems so! I think every WAR blogger
was a bit jealous when Keen received a mystery...
package from Mythic Entertainment last weekend hinting at an upcoming announcement about the Dwarf Slayer. Well, if I was green before, I think I might have ...
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Is Mythic Ready to Unleash the Orc Choppa?
massively.com - 1/20/2009
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massively.com —
Speculative information is coming down the vine via
Joystiq that Electronic Arts' new cost-cutting initiative has "cost"...
Warhammer Online roughly 21 customer support staff, half of its QA department and all of it's playtesting group. According to ...
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Rumor: Mythic layoffs hit QA, playtest and customer support
joystiq.com - 1/19/2009
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joystiq.com —
On Friday, January 16th, we heard through the
tubes that layoffs had struck at EA 's Mythic...
Entertainment , currently riding high acceptably with Warhammer Online . Here's what we were told: 21 customer service employees, half of QA and all of the ...
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Rumor: Mythic layoffs affect QA, customer support
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DAOC Origins: 6 Months of Silence
MMORPG Games & MMO News - MMOCrunch —
... It has been almost 6 months, and DAOC fans are left scratching their heads wondering, “Is this really going to happen?” Mythic has yet to give their fans any official updates on the status of the project since then, and now it appears that Mythic has been hit by personnel cuts EA as made due to economic concerns. Mythic no doubt has their hands full with Warhammer Online, which has been wrestling with its own issues. Mark Jacobs made ...
WAR’s Call to Arms
reroller: a warhammer online and mmorpg blog —
... Looks as though we have a lot to digest here. Without any further information about the back half of these events and the new RvR zone/dungeon, it’s hard to analyze the annoucement any further. But from what we’ve seen so far, it looks as though Q1 & Q2 are going to be busy months at Mythic, which leads me to think that Mythic’s head-count reduction last month hasn’t really affected their day-to-day all that much (yet — we’ll see when things hit the QA/testing stage, I guess.) ...
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onlinegamesareanichemarket.wordpress.com 6/25/2009 —
After 15 years of leading Mythic Entertainment, my time with the studio (and EA of course) I co-founded with Rob Denton has come to an end. Early in May, Electronic Arts let me know that they wanted to make some changes within the Games Label and ...
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Casualty of Warhammer
warcry.com 8/7/2009 — The customer service team at EA Mythic had it all - catered lunches, Rock Band-filled break rooms and logo-stamped coffee mugs. But sliding subscription numbers and a slumping economy meant the good times wouldn't last. Jeremy Monken recounts his ...
I am appeased… almost! And more…
thegreenskin.com 2/6/2009 — So I was listening in to the Eurogamer dev chat with several staff members from Mythic and I’m very pleased with the details they let slip about Lands of the Dead. Here’s my bullet point list of highlights I jotted down from the chat:
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mmogamer.com 22 days ago — Something fishy (and no, I don’t just mean the acquisition of social game developer Play Fish by their publisher, EA ) floating around the Mythic Entertainment tank today. Twitter is all…atwitter with reports like this and this from staffers and people otherwise considered to be in the know ...
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escapistmagazine.com 8/4/2009 — The customer service team at EA Mythic had it all - catered lunches, Rock Band -filled break rooms and logo-stamped coffee mugs. But sliding subscription numbers and a slumping economy meant the good times wouldn't last. Jeremy Monken recounts his ...
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herald.warhammeronline.com 21 days ago — Hello everyone, With all that is going on within Mythic Entertainment and EA, I would like to take a moment to reinforce the studio’s dedication to both our games and our players. At Mythic, we remain committed to our games and the passionate people ...
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warhammeronline.com 9/16/2008 — FAIRFAX, Va. - September 15, 2008 - Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced that the highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) , will ship tomorrow to retail stores across North ...
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