Electronic Arts to cut about 400 jobs and shut down BioWare

Electronic Arts is reportedly restructuring its studios, cutting about 3% of its global workforce (around 400 jobs) and shutting BioWare, per Variety and Bloomberg. Respawn and DICE reportedly will work on Star Wars: Battlefront 3.

Timeline

1. 21 Oct, 00:00 UTCFirst appeared on Mastodon (mastodon.social)
2. 21 Oct, 17:00 UTCPicked up on Google Trends
3. 21 Oct, 17:00 UTCPicked up on News
4. 21 Oct, 17:00 UTCBloomberg reports 400 jobs cut, BioWare closure
5. 21 Oct, 17:00 UTCVariety reports EA restructuring and BioWare shutdown
6. 21 Oct, 17:29 UTCReached #1 on TrendHeat
7. 21 Oct, 17:29 UTCPicked up on Hacker News

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