It’s not only official, but the first official closure of a development studio following Electronic Arts’ stunning quarterly report announcement.  Some 200 of the promised 1,500 layoffs will be hitting Pandemic, creator of Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (360/PS3) and others, causing the California developer to be the first casualty of the [...]

Electronic Arts announced plans to lay off around 1,500 people by the end of March 2010, and that was bad.  The company chalked up the drastic measure as a cost cutting technique.  Human sadness aside, gamers should be worried about the many video games being canceled, or at least shelved for the foreseeable future.  It [...]