Holy crap. Today is the day for major PC gaming news it seems. Electronic Arts has just announced that they are making some changes in their Mythic development studio. EA is putting their MMO and RPG operations under one division. The press release states that BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka will be in charge of the new division.

The press release also announces the departure of Mark Jacobs, one of the founders of the original Mythic Entertainment and one of the main people responsible for the development of Mythic's most recent game Warhammer Online along with its previous MMO Dark Age of Camelot. Mythic's other co-founder Rob Denton will remain will Mythic and will become the studio's new general manger, reporting to Muzyka.

Update: Our sister site Massively has got some more info on today's announcement as anonymous staffers at Mythic expressed surprise at Jacobs' departure even though he apparently had been on sabbatical from the company for over a month. There are no plans for any layoffs at Mythic, according to the article.