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kotaku.com - 11 days ago

Rumor: EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout [Rumor]

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Electronic Arts has taken the ax to hundreds of employees at locations in Burnaby, Orlando and San Francisco today, according to chatter from former EA employees, issuing layoffs the same day it...

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gamasutra.com - 11 days ago

Report: Layoffs Hit EA Studios Including Tiburon, Black Box, Redwood Shores, Mythic

— gamasutra.com — [ Update: As part of its quarterly financial results, Electronic Arts issued a statement confirming it will lay off 1,500 workers by April 2010.] Gamasutra has learned that major third-party publisher Electronic Arts issued a round of layoffs across ... (more) Report: Layoffs Hit EA Studios Including Tiburon, Black ...

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marketwatch.com - 10 days ago

Electronic Arts sets 1,500 job cuts as losses grow

— marketwatch.com — Alert Email Print By Dan Gallagher , MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Electronic Arts Inc. reported a wider quarterly loss on Monday and announced plans to lay off as many as 1,500 workers in an effort to reduce costs, as the video-game ... (more) Electronic Arts sets 1,500 job cuts as losses grow

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gamasutra.com - 11 days ago

EA Announces Increased Net Loss, Confirms 1,500 Layoffs

— gamasutra.com — Electronic Arts said it would lay off 1,500 workers by April 2010, alongside second fiscal quarter results that saw the publisher post a decrease in year-over-year revenues and a widening net loss of $391 million. About 1,300 of those layoffs are ... (more) EA Announces Increased Net Loss, Confirms 1,500 Layoffs

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Cuppytalk:  EA buys Playfish, then reportedly lays off Mythic and EA staff

The MMO Gamer:  Trouble at EA Mythic

N/A:  Multiplaying : 015 : 11.13.09

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Rumor: EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout http://bit.ly/vR17X 7 days ago

EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout http://bit.ly/Fkcww - OUCH, right at the cusp of the holidays, too 9 days ago

EA Starts To Chuck Work Force after Large Payout Of Game ~ http://bit.ly/3CDDk ~ EA mistreating their employee's? No way! 10 days ago

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EA buys Playfish, then reportedly lays off Mythic and EA staff
Cuppytalk — ... The gloomy side of this?  EA have now reportedly laid off 40% of Mythic staff (I can confirm several in fact) and several other EA studios including Tiburon in Orlando, FL and Black Box in British Columbia.  My condolences goes out to the folks affected, including the ...

EA buys Playfish, then lays off Mythic and EA staff
Cuppytalk — ... The gloomy side of this?  EA have now reportedly laid off 40% of Mythic staff (I can confirm several in fact) and several other EA studios including Tiburon in Orlando, FL and Black Box in British Columbia.  My condolences goes out to the folks affected, including the ...

Trouble at EA Mythic
The MMO Gamer — 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 regarding significant layoffs. According to this report, Mythic appears to be but one of several EA’s developers affected by downsizing, with Tiburon (Madden, NCAA Football, etc) and Black Box Studios (Need For Speed, Skate) also ...

Multiplaying : 015 : 11.13.09
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