Electronics Arts has shuffled off Pandemic Studios' Brisbane office, a reliable source tells Kotaku. The Australian developer was best known for Destroy All Humans! and its rumoured development of an ill-fated Batman game.
According to the information we were provided, Pandemic's Brisbane staffers weren't necessarily laid off by EA corporate, which purchased the developer alongside BioWare in 2007. Instead, we were told that the studio was "set free" with the down under arm of Pandemic retaining its original IP and even its equipment.
"It was more of a 'Find a new publisher. Good luck.' kind of thing," according to the source. And you can keep the tea kettle, apparently. No mention was made of the fate of the other Pandemic Studios office, which is based in Los Angeles.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
So EA buys Bioware and Pandemic for 600 million and now they decide to drop one of Pandemic's studios. What a waste of money, I wish EA never bought out these two companies. I just hope Bioware survives as they have created my favorite RPGs of all time.
How come I had to find out this section of Pandemic made the first DAH! games now?...well, thats the franchise officially doomed. Again, f**k. Farewell; its been good most of the time Cryptosporidium, because it seems like THQ don't care about you.
Free Radical, Factor 5, and Pandemic
This will give Sony a foothold in Australia, since I don't think they have an Australia studio yet.
Free Radical, Factor 5, and Pandemic
because they r not good engouth lol
Pandemic has created some of the worst games this gen IMO.
Mercenaries2, LOTR: Conquest 2 games which I hate.
They payed millions for this studio that shovel out games that horrid.
Good riddance.