EA Canada

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EA Canada

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legal form Electronic Arts Development Department
founding 1983
Seat Burnaby , British Columbia Canada
CanadaCanada 
Number of employees over 2500
Branch Computer and video games
Website EA Canada

EA Canada (also EA Vancouver ) is a development studio based in Burnaby in the Canadian province of British Columbia . The studio opened in January 1983 and is Electronic Arts' largest and oldest studio . Over 2,000 people work at EA Canada alone and the world's largest test center for video games is located here.

Company headquarters

In the studio building there is a motion capture studio , 22 rooms for development, 14 rooms for video editing, 3 production studios, a wing of the building for creating background music and sound effects, and a department for quality assurance. There are also fitness rooms, cinemas, a cafeteria called EAt , a coffee shop and a room to play video games. The building is located near Discovery Park. Further branches in Canada are the EA Black Box in Vancouver , Montreal and Edmonton .

history

EA Canada is a large development studio of the American video game company Electronic Arts (EA for short), which owns several development studios around the world, also not based in America. EA, headquartered in Redwood City , California , bought EA Canada for $ 11 million in 1991, which was then called Distinctive Software and headquartered in Vancouver. At the time EA bought Distinctive Software, they were known for some racing and sports computer games released under the Accolade brand . Since the takeover and renaming to EA Canada, the studio has mainly developed for the three EA brands EA Games , EA Sports and EA Sports BIG .

EA Black Box was formed as part of EA Canada through the purchase of Black Box Games . In March 2003, the studio decided to rent the top four floors of an office high-rise in downtown Vancouver for expansion because the existing space was insufficient for the projects under development at the time. In 2005, it became an independent EA development studio. From its inception until 2008, EA Black Box was the sole developer of the Need for Speed racing game series .

On December 19, 2008, Electronic Arts announced as part of a savings plan that EA Black Box's studio in Vancouver would be closed and relocated to the Burnaby studios . The Black Box move should be completed by June 2009.

Games

The following games have been developed by EA Canada and EA Black Box. Entries with an * indicate a game that is currently under development at one of the two studios.

EA Games

The following games were published under the EA Games / EA brand (EA has since given up the EA Games brand and only uses EA ):

game publication Platforms
Need for Speed: High stakes May 4, 1999 Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable (with emulator)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 October 30, 2002 Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube
Need for Speed: Underground November 17, 2003 Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance
James Bond 007: All or Nothing February 11, 2004 PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance
Def Jam: Fight for NY September 20, 2004 PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube
Need for Speed: Underground 2 November 9, 2004 Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Handy
Need for Speed: Underground: Rivals March 18, 2005 PlayStation Portable
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects September 20, 2005 PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
Need for Speed: Most Wanted November 11, 2005 Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, Handy
Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 November 11, 2005 PlayStation Portable
Need for Speed: Carbon October 31, 2006 Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Zeebo, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Handy
Need for Speed: Carbon: Own the City October 31, 2006 PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance
EA replay November 14, 2006 PlayStation Portable
Skate September 14, 2007 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, mobile phone
EA Playground October 23, 2007 Wii, Nintendo DS
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 November 13, 2007 Wii, PlayStation Portable
Need for Speed: ProStreet November 14, 2007 Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, mobile phone
Need for Speed: Undercover November 18, 2008 Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, N-Gage 2.0, iPhone OS, iPod Touch
Skate it November 19, 2008 Wii, Nintendo DS
Skate 2 January 21, 2009 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The Sims 3 June 2, 2009 Mac OS X, Windows
MySims Racing June 8, 2009 Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS
The Sims 3: Travel Adventure November 18, 2009 Mac OS X, Windows
The Sims 3: Luxury Stuff February 2, 2010 Mac OS X, Windows
The Sims 3: Dream Careers June 1, 2010 Mac OS X, Windows
The Sims 3: Late Night October 20, 2010 Mac OS X, Windows
Need for Speed: The Run November 5, 2011 Windows , PS3 , Xbox 360 , Wii , Nintendo 3DS

EA Sports

The following games were released under the EA Sports brand :

  • NCAA March Madness 2002
  • NCAA March Madness 2005
  • NCAA March Madness 06
  • NCAA March Madness 07
  • NCAA March Madness 08

EA Sports BIG

The following games were released under the EA Sports BIG brand :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Electronic Arts cancels planned Vancouver expansion . CBC News. December 13, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
  2. ^ COMPANY NEWS; Electronic Arts To Buy Distinctive , New York Times, June 18, 1991
  3. ^ EA to shut down Vancouver's Black Box studio . CBC News. December 19, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ Tor Thorsen: EA layoffs hit 1,000, Black Box 'consolidated' . GameSpot. December 19, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2011.

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