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Top 5 Video Game Studios That EA Killed After Buying Them
It’s a little disturbing, when you can have a list of the top 5 studios shut down by a publisher. But considering that the publisher in question is EA, I don’t think it should come as a surprise. EA has a long history of acquiring great studios, sucking the life out of them, turning them into factories that churn out crap and leaving them to rot when they don’t meet EA’s unrealistic expectations. For anyone who doesn’t believe it, all you need to do is go through the list. 1. Visceral Games Formerly known as EA Redwood, Visceral crafted an amazing action-horror experience with their Dead Space series, before EA completely messed up Dead Space 3 with their EA-ness. Naturally, the game didn’t sell as many copies and Visceral was handed Battlefield Hardline...