https://www.ea.com/news/an-update-on-the-visceral-star-wars-project?isLocalized=true May EA's executives suffer a more gorier end than the characters in the original Dead Space game for what they keep doing. Yet another EA studio headed to the chopping block because in spite of doing brilliant niche games that could be perfectly profitable, their games never managed to reach blockbuster status (as if every single game needed to be a blockbuster). And to top it off, the Star Wars game Visceral was working on will have its story driven single player campaign concept ripped out of its chest, since (and here I quote) "It has become clear that to deliver an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come, we needed to pivot the design. We will maintain the stunning visuals, authenticity in the Star Wars universe, and focus on bringing a Star Wars story to life" By that they mean it will be diluted to a soul-less copy of whatever game is successful right now (probably Destiny 2) with some sort of multiplayer shoehorned in so that they can sell more lootboxes. Bastards. Let us take a moment to remember the studios who were devoured by EA's unrelenting obsession with mega hit games that rake in obscene amounts of cash: Maxis Mythic Bullfrog Origin Westwood Dreamworks Interactive Phenomic Black Box Games Pandemic PlayFish NuFX Visceral Games (and Bioware will probably join their ranks soon enough with the way things are going, all the symptoms are there) On the bright side, CIG might be able to snatch some talented staff from them, so it's not all bad news.