Post Tagged with: "Pandemic-Studios"

Pandemic Studios Announces Mercs Inc.

It’s funny how things happen in the gaming industry. A week ago, EA announced that Pandemic Studios would be shutting down, and that their properties in development, like The Saboteur, would be put in EA’s hands. Rightfully, you’d assume that meant no more games would come out of Pandemic Studios, but today, EA & Pandemic [...]

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Gangsta: Three Pandemic Employees Bid Farewell to Company Printer Office Space Style

The cult classic that popped our corporate culture cherry is paid homage once again. This time, it’s three recently laid off Pandemic employees showing the company printer who’s boss. Check out the video and remember, it always feels good to be a gangsta.

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EA Confirms Closing of Pandemic Studios Today

The rumor which surfaced just over an hour ago regarding the possible shut down of Pandemic Studios has just been confirmed via an internal Electronic Arts memo snagged by Kotaku. It seems that the individuals EA deems as the Pandemic “core” team will be merged into the EA Los Angeles office, while the roughly 200 [...]

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Studio In Flames: EA Rumored to be Closing Down Pandemic Today, 200 Employees Laid Off

According to sources who leaked the information to Kotaku, Pandemic Studios, creators of Full Spectrum Warrior, Star Wars: Battlefront, and most recently Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, will be have nearly their entire Los Angles base staff (roughly 200 employees) laid off today. The announcement is reportedly going to take place one hour from now [...]

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Obama and Palin Playable as CMD’s (Characters of Mass Destruction) in Mercs 2 Update

You may never get to be President of the United States, but if Senator Obama wins this year’s election, you can play one in a video game. That’s right people, the rumor regarding Barack Obama and everyone’s favorite punching bag, Sarah Palin, coming to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is most certainly true. Hit the [...]

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Mercenaries 2 Free Gas Promotion – Might Be a Good Idea to Tip These Guys

EA and Pandemic Studios announced today, that from 6am this morning til whenever “the pumps run dry”, they will fit the bill to pump your car full of gas — if you can make it to 8489 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA before the deal goes up in flames. Seriously, who thought mixing flames, gas, [...]

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Lord of the Rings: Conquest Preview – Frodo, How Could You?

Perhaps you’re thinking we’ve had enough Lord of the Rings games, since we were inundated while the movies were being released and now there’s even an MMO. However, Pandemic Studios, the guys who brought us the Star Wars Battlefront games, thought they’d try their hand at one, and from the way Conquest is shaping up, [...]

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Dark Knight Game: Pandemic Dev? Will It Suck?

I saw the Dark Knight movie a few days ago, and yes, everything you hear (and read) about it is true. It’s an amazing film, and Heath Ledger’s performance is one for the ages. However, as Harvey Dent (Two Face) would tell you himself, there is a flip side to everything, and the flip side [...]

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Mercenaries 2 Delay Officially Confirmed

“Fiscal 2008 can kiss my ass — I’m going home to play Rock Band” If you had been holding on to hope that Pandemic Studio’s much anticipated Mercenaries 2: World in Flames would be lighting up your television set soon, you can officially forget it.

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EA Buys Bioware and Pandemic Studios

For every one that breaks free, two more get sucked in. As Microsoft’s cleaning crews entered the empty offices once held by the employees of Bungie Studios, another industry giant, Electronic Arts, was finalizing a deal to purchase VG Holding Corp, owners of both Bioware Corp (Mass Effect) and Pandemic Studios (Mercenaries 2: World in [...]

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