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EA Says They’re Working on Six to Eight New IPs Including Mirror’s Edge
I think I gave away the kicker to the article in the headline but it’s too good to pass up. In a recent interview with industry publication MCV, EA Games Executive Vice President Patrick Soderlund addressed the criticism that EA is just recycling the same old intellectual property every year. Soderlund contends that EA is currently working on at least six new IPs and isn’t planning to stop developing new franchises.
However, Soderlund’s idea of what constitutes a new intellectual property is different that what the rest of the world considers to be a new idea.
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E3 2013: You Can’t Spell EA without Shooters and Sports
Peter Moore opened EA’s 2013 EA press conference by saying that Electronic Arts was going to show off 11 new titles for next-gen consoles during the event. What he neglected to mention is that EA was showing off 10 games that were shooters or sports games and Mirror’s Edge 2. Did you know that you can’t spell “Electronic Arts” without “shooter” or “sports?”
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EA Cuts 900 Staff in Latest Round of Lay-Offs
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that not a week went by when we didn’t get rumours or reports of layoffs in the gaming industry. Just the same, I’d swear that not a week goes by when we don’t hear about internal turmoil at Electronic Arts.
Temporarily missed among all the news about sales targets for the likes of Crysis 3 and Dead Space 3 was news that EA was laying-off 10% of their workforce, which translates to 900 people, as part of their ongoing corporate restructuring program.
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