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EA Opening New Los Angeles Game Studio
Electronic Arts Inc., fresh off announcing it cut 10 percent of its workforce to trim costs, is investing in a new Los Angeles studio for its Stockholm-based DICE game developer with the goal of poaching talent from rivals like Activision Blizzard Inc.With an Eye on Viacom, Netflix Adds More Kids’ Shows From Disney
Dora could go. But Jake is coming.
EA Shares Rise Despite Earnings Miss
A nice move in shares for the gaming giant, which recently struck a major deal with Disney.
Disney’s Star Wars Games Solution: Electronic Arts
May the force be with them.
Voices
May the 4th Be With You (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
May the Fourth Be With You, Yo.
It’s not just a status update.
Mind Games: Will Brain Power Be the Future of Play?
The search for a game-changer at a neurogaming conference this week in San Francisco.
Viral Video: Harrison Ford’s Wookiee Problem
He knows what he did.
News Byte
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
Disney has shuttered LucasArts, the games publishing and development division of Lucasfilm, which Disney acquired in October. However, the company said in a statement that, “after evaluating our position in the games market,” it still plans to license “Star Wars” characters for future games. Kotaku reports that about 150 people have been laid off as a result of the company closure. In addition to the many Star Wars videogames LucasArts had released over the years, the studio was also known for games like Sam & Max, The Secret of Monkey Island and Afterlife.Please Don’t Tell George Lucas What You Think About Jar Jar Binks
It was fine before the Internet. But now with the Internet, it’s gotten very vicious and very personal. You just say, ‘Why do I need to do this?’
– George Lucas, still wincing from the reaction to the new “Star Wars” movies, in Bloomberg Businessweek’s story on a $4 billion Lucasfilm/Disney deal