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EA Canada is a video game developer located in Vancouver. The development studio was opened in January 1983 and is EA's largest studio. EA Canada alone employs more than one thousand people and houses the world's largest video game test operation.
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Inside the building there are: a motion-capture studio, twenty-two rooms for composing, fourteen video editing suites, three production studios, a wing for audio compositions, and a quality assurance department.
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EA Canada is a video game developer located in Vancouver. The development studio was opened in January 1983 and is EA's largest studio. EA Canada alone employs more than one thousand people and houses the world's largest video game test operation.
Premises
Inside the building there are: a motion-capture studio, twenty-two rooms for composing, fourteen video editing suites, three production studios, a wing for audio compositions, and a quality assurance department. There are also facilities such as fitness rooms, a theatre, a cafeteria called EAt, coffee bars and a video games room. The building is situated next to Discovery Park.
History
EA Canada is a major studio of the American gaming software giant Electronic Arts or EA, which has several other non-American studios around the globe. EA, based in Redwood City, California, had acquired EA Canada in 1991 for $11 million when this Canadian software firm was then known as Distinctive Software. At the time of the business acquisition, Distinctive Software was noted for developing a number of racing and sporting games published under the Accolade brand. Since becoming EA Canada, it developed many EA Games, EA Sports and EA Sports BIG games.
EA Black Box was founded when EA acquired Black Box Games in 2002, as a part of EA Canada. It became an independent EA studio in 2005. In March 2003, the firm decided that they lacked space for their current projects so the top four floors of an office tower in downtown Vancouver were used for expansion. Since its founding, EA Black Box has been home to the Need for Speed franchise, among others.
On December 19 2008, EA announced they would be closing EA Black Box's Vancouver studio and moving the studio to its nearby Burnaby studio as part of a worldwide consolidation plan. Officials stressed that Black Box would remain open, and said they expected the move to be completed in June 2009.
Games developed
Below, a list of games EA Canada and EA Black Box have developed. Items with an asterisk (*) indicate that they are known to be currently working on that project.
EA Games
Games developed for publishing by EA Games/EA (EA dropped the "EA Games" brand and now uses only "EA" instead):
EA Sports
Games developed for publishing by EA Sports:
EA Sports BIG
Games developed for publishing by EA Sports BIG:
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