EA Partners “Absolutely Open for Business” – Frank Gibeau

The EA Labels president comments about the perceived state of EA Partners.

Posted By | On 10th, Jun. 2013

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Despite lay-offs earlier this year, Electronic Arts Labels president Frank Gibeau has assured everyone that the studio isn’t in any bad shape whatsoever, and it won’t be closing any time soon.

“We had, frankly, too much capacity inside of our EA Partners team to handle more projects than we were in position to want to have right now. That was what was the scaling back of it was. But Partners is open for business,” stated Gibeau.

As for rumours that the program might be in danger of closing down, he stated that, “I don’t think the communication of that has been particularly well executed on our part.

“We are absolutely open for business to partner with developers out there. In fact on mobile, as an example, with our Chillingo team, we just published three games this week.

“On the console front, honestly, when you’re in a transition, you tend to focus in on your internal titles and put must of your attention there and most of your capital to make sure you get your studios positioned and configured for that. So we’re definitely looking to do that.”

EA Partners is a co-publishing arm of the giant which lends itself to publishing and distributing games from third party developers. This has included developers such Grasshopper Manufacture, Harmonix, Epic Games and Crytek. It will be showcasing Respawn Entertainment’s TitanFall this week at E3 2013.

Source: GamesIndustry International


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