The Saboteur goes gold even as Pandemic's studio space shuts down

Posted Nov 22nd 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action

Pandemic Studios' life as a separate game development studio came to a swift end earlier this week with the reveal that its owner Electronic Arts was shutting down their Santa Monica-based offices and laying off 200 of its workers. While EA has said the Pandemic brand name and its franchises will live on, the last game to come from their original offices will be the WWII action title The Saboteur.

Late on Friday, the dev studio's community manager posted on their message boards that " . . . . The Saboteur has officially gone "GOLD" on all 3 planned platforms (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 & PC)." The game is still scheduled for a December 8 release date here in the US (Europeans get the game a few days earlier on December 4). As the community manager admits, "This has been a very difficult week for Pandemic Studios, but does not change the fact that a team of amazing people worked very hard to make The Saboteur a great game that fans will be able to enjoy this holiday season." We are hoping the last game from their studio is good as well even if EA seems intent on not giving it a big marketing push.

[Via Joystiq]

Gallery: The Saboteur

Tags: ea, electronic-arts, pandemic-studios, the-saboteur

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Way to shut down another halfway decent studio EA. I'm sure this game will get plenty of support via updates/bug fixes now that you have layed off the people that made it.

Their dedication as a publisher overwhelms me.Posted at 2:42PM on Nov 23rd 2009 by Solice

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