"Small Number" of Boom Blox Devs Laid Off

Posted by admin On March - 3 - 2010

Electronic Arts has confirmed that a small number of the Boom Blox development team at EA Los Angeles has been laid off after the project they were working on was moved to EA Bright Light Studio.

An EA spokesperson told Kotaku that a “small project has been moved from EA Los Angeles, to the EA Bright Light Studio in Guildford, UK, where the Harry Potter franchise and several of the Hasbro properties are developed.” The spokesperson gave no other details about the project, but The Boom Blox team had evidently been working on a game that wasn’t for the Wii, and now-former EALA senior software engineer Jeff Dixon confirmed to Blue’s News it was indeed a Project Natal game.

While the spokesperson only said a “small number” of employees were let go without getting into specifics, Dixon also told Blue’s News that fourteen staffers in total were cut. The spokesperson did, however, say that “all eligible employees will receive severance and outplacement assistance,” and that “EA remains fully committed to maintaining its EALA studio.”

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