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Every Studio EA's Bought and Destroyed

Undoubtedly you've already heard about EA's unprecedented buyout bid towards Take-Two, but it's far from the first time the gaming behemoth has thrown its weight in cash about.

From Maxis to BioWare Pandemic, Electronic Arts has spent billions acquiring studios over the last twenty years and, worryingly for Mass Effect fans, it's closed quite a few of them as well.

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decapitator6677d ago (Edited 6677d ago )

Well, **** me. I thought they had done far less destruction, guess I was wrong. TOTALLY. Holy hell, they've bought and close down over 15!! studios? Imagine how many people have been put out of work.

Man this is reason enough to not let EA acquire TT2, it would be a disaster folks. Go buy some stocks right now. It sucks though, they will get bought anyway, from the latest news, it seems till will be a hostile takeover.

sonarus6677d ago

Unless you are ready to donate money to take two, Ea will be buying them The sooner we gamers start to accept it the better. EA sucks but they aren't completely F'd. Optimistically EA has an opportunity to help take two become more efficient. In other words those with good games stay those with lame games do not. I really only care about 2k sports. The good news for them is at least they can have NFL license so maybe we can actually see next gen madden. NBA 2k8 has owned live for a while now so hopefully ea will let it stay but probably under a different name.

TriggerHappy6677d ago

Damn, all those studios shut down ? thats crazy. TT2 must not be bought.

decapitator6677d ago

Spot on man, Is amazing how much destruction they have already caused to the gaming industry. They seem to wanna be int total control and domination of this next gen gaming with their garbage.

Relcom6677d ago

like all the rest. They are all i care about.

MK_Red6677d ago

Wow, I knew EA was stupid and couldn't handle good teams but WOW...
Biggest F ups of EA: Bullfrog and Westwood.

P4KY B6677d ago

They should be jailed for doing that Westwood and Bullfrog

Leathersoup6677d ago

...is that they only keep the brands. As long as you can keep track of the names of the people who made the games great you're better off following that.

Example: Bullfrog = Peter Molyneux

I dunno about Westwood though... R.I.P :(

Guwapo776676d ago (Edited 6676d ago )

I had no clue they swallowed up and spit out Westwood. They did the D&D style RPGs and ARPGs... I always wondered what happened to those guys. I still miss them.

Edit: They were Land of Lore 1-3 and Eye of the Beholder. Excellent games during that time.

dzg4ever6677d ago

2/3 of their games sucks, so they only buy everething what is good! Thank's lord for other great studios! I simply don't like EA games

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai39d ago (Edited 39d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio39d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing39d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9239d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit39d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing39d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9239d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."