EA Muscling In On Hollywood?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday October 5, 2003 @04:02AM from the sim-tinseltown-mogul? dept.

Thanks to the New York Times/Naples Daily News for their article discussing Electronic Arts' gigantic expansion of its Los Angeles offices, and discussing how they're poaching Hollywood talent to expand the LA division, with 1,000 employees planned there by 2010. The article suggests that "Ninety percent of these [new EA] workers will be creative types who formerly would have worked in television or in the movies - animators, digital artists, writers, directors and set and costume designers", and although it's pointed out that "Electronic Arts is not going whole-hog-Hollywood", at least one analyst suggests that, fearing the competition, "the Hollywood studios, many of whom tried building their own games divisions in the mid-'90s, could decide to start developing games again or could make the rights to movies very expensive."

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I happily join to the bandwagon ... by Reez · 2003-10-05 05:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

to say that EA sucks and I don't like them or their products. Feeling better ...
Struggling Game Designers... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-05 12:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So, are there going to be struggling game designers living in LA now, too? Are there going to be little dweebs that wear black, thick-framed glasses and want to make video games about teenage lesbians who are coping with being a lesbian, or heroin addicts that are also coping with being a lesbian?

This is stupid. I wish the game industry would stop trying to be the movie industry. Do you hear that, Rockstar?! Nobody cares that you got Ray Liotta to be a character in GTA3! I hate Rockstar sooo much.