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BioWare San Francisco Closes Its Doors

by William D'Angelo, posted on 05 March 2013 / 1,781 Views

Electronic Arts has told GamesIndustry International that BioWare San Francisco has closed its doors.It is part of the smaller studios that were closed a couple a weeks ago, along with EA Montreal and EA Los Angeles.

Between 25 and 30 employees have been laid off according to a source speaking with Games Radar. The studio was focused on developing social and mobile games of Electronic Arts franchises. It developed several titles including Dragon Age: Journeys and Mirror's Edge 2D.


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Dodece
Dodece (on 06 March 2013)

No it is just a market correction. Most big publishers over produced, and thus over saturated just about every market available to them. In other words they were making a lot of crap, and they found out that there isn't a lot of money to be made in crap. In fact making crap loses them money.

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Devil_Survivor
Devil_Survivor (on 05 March 2013)

Does this mean the scourge of EA might being going away forever?

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ebw
ebw (on 05 March 2013)

Both this article and Wikipedia make it sound like EA Montréal has closed down, but I see no real evidence of this. Has an entire studio closed or is it just the usual business of layoffs?

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