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EA won't confirm whether Danger Close is still open

EA has refused to confirm whether Medal of Honor: Warfighter developer Danger Close Games has been closed amidst the company's ongoing restructuring.

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NYC_Gamer4026d ago

I wouldn't be surprised since MOH[modern warfare]failed twice

WUTCHUGUNNADO4026d ago (Edited 4026d ago )

MOH has failed since it left PS1. You can't put all the blame on Danger close... they didn't invent the super Nazi's in Airborne.

porkChop4026d ago

Actually they did. Danger Close used to be known as EA Los Angeles, and before that they were known as Dreamworks Interactive. These are the guys that created the Medal of Honor series, and they've developed almost all MoH games, including Airborne.

omi25p4026d ago

Medal of Honour
Frontlines
Rising Sun
Spear Head
Allied Assault
Pacific Assault
Are Brilliant games

Welshy4026d ago

"MOH failed since it left PS1"

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that i'm afraid.

The PS2 generation was packed with so many more genres that sold as well as shooters do now, but even for a platform that i wasn't big on the FPS with, MOH: Rising Sun, MOH: Frontlines and MOH: Allied Assault were some of my favourite games on the PS2.

The reasons MOH suffered this time round (PS3/360) are the same reasons that Call Of Duty SHOULD be suffering from right now, complete lack of originality and not a creative bone in it's body. But the COD brand is popular so it gets a free pass where the same problem crippled MOH to 2/10.

Albie3604026d ago

Well I feel like they stole my money with the last MOH. It was crap. I could not even still to date finish the SP campaign. Multiplayer we do not even mention.

Cam9774026d ago (Edited 4026d ago )

EA really think this is a joke, don't they? I guarantee DICE will close if BF loses its charm, and any other decent studio they own for that matter. EA has exceeded Activision in terms of how low they've sunk.

You see, it's companies like this ruining, and destroying gaming. By sucking every cent from a franchise then demolishing that game's studio - it's ridiculous - and shouldn't be allowed to happen. I wonder how many hard-working, honest professionals have lost their favourite job due to EA's greed.

I'd love to know who makes these decisions? A group of "professionals?" Surely they don't see the decimation of art to be a good, honest day's work? It's completely EA's fault. Not many other publishers run down franchises to the point of failure; once successful franchises too. Thankyou EA. Your silence says it all. I hope to see your wretched corporation self destruct by annihilating all of your good studios. Leave, EA, you won't be missed. In fact, you'll do gaming a favour. No longer will other studios practically "rape" their games of content to sell it as DLC later on in the year. No longer will studios be stripped of what they once were to nab EA a quick dime.

This is becoming so serious that if EA don't change, they'll be the modern standard 1980's games publisher. They release trash too often with too little done to it. EA and Activision lead the gaming industry's notorious list of "joke" publishers; however, EA lead this elusive list for being so immorally wrong.

EA controls their studios like a disease, and cuts them off like a French guillotine.
Just die, EA.

Grap4026d ago

this studio really have no talent. i can see it in their hbad games

Yodagamer4026d ago

They made great games as ea la and dreamwork's interactive. I don't know what happened to them as danger close, i don't know if it was the new setting or the new storylines, but something happened.

WUTCHUGUNNADO4026d ago

They may close down a lot of devs but it's not like they round up all their workers and shoot them so they can't use their talent elsewhere. Usually when a studio closes the talent gets sucked up before the doors lock.

zme-ul4026d ago

"refused to confirm" - it's closed all right

CanadianTurtle4026d ago

It's funny, when the game trailer first came out, all the gamers thought this was going to be the CoD killer and was going to be an outstanding title. It ended up being the most generic games of this gen. And the online is just terrible

porkChop4026d ago

MoH 2010 wasn't perfect but it had some promise. Warfighter was just pure trash. I don't think they should be closed though. The team has a lot of talent and they did well before changing their name to Danger Close. MoH failed because EA forced them to go after CoD. Just let them make a new IP with their own style, or let them go back to World War 2.

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Remembering Medal Of Honor: The Forgotten Master Of WW2 Games

Ibrahim from eXputer: "The Medal of Honor franchise was once the crown jewel of FPS war games, later defeated by the tides of time and poor development."

banger883d ago

They tried to turn it into Call of Duty and it killed it off. They should reboot it and go back to it's roots. But they'd ruin it with online-only/multiplayer style bullshit so why bother? I have very fond memories of these games, but this series can stay dead as far as I'm concerned.

FPS_D3TH2d ago

Was literally just thinking of this game the other week with the secret nut cracker mission and the shooting Bismarck dog lmao. Loved these games as a kid

PrecursorOrb2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I wish they’d remake warfighter

Strictly for the campaign

The_Hooligan2d ago

I have fond memories of playing the Medal of Honor Breakthrough MP Demo. It had two maps and custom servers. Living on campus, I had it downloaded on one of the PC Lab servers so I could access it on any computer at the university. Joined a clan and made friends that I still keep in touch with today.

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein48d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga48d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo48d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken48d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN48d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199247d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia48d ago (Edited 48d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575648d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies48d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde47d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos48d ago (Edited 48d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai48d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken48d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
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Eonjay47d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger48d ago (Edited 48d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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EA And Sony Layoffs, Entertainment News And More Skewedcast

Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.