{"id":587,"date":"2008-10-30T18:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-10-30T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T01:08:41","slug":"bad-times-for-eala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Bad times for EALA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the cancellation of Tiberium almost a month ago was just a foreshadowing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=20893\">more bad news<\/a>. I hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LMNO_(video_game)\">LMNO<\/a> was a casualty today, along with many people on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Alert_3\">RTS<\/a> team(s). Once again, it sucks to see talented developers get scattered to the winds, especially in the current economic climate.<\/p>\n<p>EA has been trying to reinvent itself for a while, and I hope that they can capitalise on that next year. Right now, the EALA offices are looking like a very expensive, fairly empty facility, and with another dev studio just over in Westwood (Pandemic) I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised at news of a physical merge sometime.<\/p>\n<p>They have some promising titles in development, but the games label side of EALA is having a very tough year. Time will tell how that pans out for them. Hang in there, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the cancellation of Tiberium almost a month ago was just a foreshadowing of more bad news. I hear that LMNO was a casualty today, along with many people on the RTS team(s). Once again, it sucks to see talented developers get scattered to the winds, especially in the current&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}