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The year is 2142, and the dawn of a new Ice age has thrown the world into a panic. The soil not covered by ice can only feed a fraction of the Earth’s population. The math is simple and brutal: some will live, most will die. In Battlefield 2142, ...

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EA finishes DICE acquisition, closes Canada office

Posted on Wednesday, 4 October 2006 by Speed, source: Bluesnews

DICE, creators of the o so popular Battlefield games, has sent out word that their office in Canada has been closed following the finalization of their acquisition by Electronic Arts

On the morning of Oct 2nd hours after EA finalized the buyout of DICE, it closed the Canadian subsidiary DICE Canada (Developers of BF: Vietnam and BF2: Special forces). There where 28 employees at the Canadian office

I guess that's 28 additional people without too much love for EA...

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6 Comment(s)

Parallax

BF Vietnam sucked and so did BF2:SF, it's a win-win situation for us to see them go :P

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Posted on 16:15, October 04th 2006

Anonymous

Ignorant Prick. 28 jobs is 28 jobs. EA"s monopoly grows.

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Posted on 06:03, October 05th 2006

Anonymous

When you lose yer job (assuming you have one) i'll be glad to see you go too.

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Posted on 06:14, October 05th 2006

Anonymous

after they made so much money from so much shite, you'd think EA would promote such rap talent

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Posted on 09:27, October 05th 2006

Anonymous

Parallax, that's cold.

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Posted on 09:53, October 05th 2006

Vexxed

All the shit that gets said on here and you guys get offended by Para saying its a good thing 28 people lost their jobs.

They lost their jobs not their lives for fucks sake.

If your going to bitch at EA about something then bitch about their whole advertising in games bollocks they are planning now.

All the shit that gets said on here and you guys get offended by Para saying its a good thing 28 people lost their jobs. They lost their jobs not their lives for fucks sake. If your going to bitch at EA about something then bitch about their whole advertising in games bollocks they are planning now.

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Posted on 15:21, October 08th 2006