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At Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores) Schofield (pictured) was the executive producer and Michael Condrey was the senior development director of Dead Space, before they quit earlier in the summer. The new company, based in Foster City near San Francisco, is working on an unannounced new project. Dave Stohl, …

Tweets from inside the company late on Tuesday illustrated the miserable aftermath of the shock decision. Drew Marlowe, a game desiger at Pandemic, tweeted, "It’s official, Pandemic is shut down as of today. Thankfully it looks like we are getting decent severance." He also posted the whiteboard picture accompanying this …

West Midland's organisations to host a trio of atypical industry get-togethers

Lead architect Paul Holden discusses the engine impacts of giving users free reign

Britons are sitting on a 1.8 billion-worth of unused computer games – the equivalent of one game per person in the UK. That’s according to a new national survey, which revealed one in five consumers (22 per cent) have ten or more computer games at home they haven’t played in …

Numbers down 68.5 per cent year-on-year to $5.7m as profit turns to loss

All industry professionals can now join Talented People to offer their services

EEDAR reveals higher marketing spend more influential than review scores

UK independent might release internally-made memory monitoring tool to other studios

California–based developer Pandemic Studios is the latest victim of EA’s mass staff reduction operation, reports suggest, and may have closed down completely. An EA spokesperson was not available for comment as a news report from Kotaku went live and suggested that EA has shuttered the studio completely, taking as many …