EA Closes Down Mythic Entertainment

<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Despite EA&&num;8217&semi;s improving financial situation the run of layoffs at the company is showing no signs of slowing down&period; The most recent victim is Mythic Entertainment which is set to close down in the next few weeks&period; Some staff will remain employed at other areas of EA but most will have to start looking for work elsewhere&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Founded in 1995&comma; Mythic Entertainment specialised in creating MMO titles and rose to prominence with their 2001 game Dark Age of Camelot&period; After being bought be EA in 2006&comma; Mythic&&num;8217&semi;s next game was Warhammer Online&colon; Age of Reckoning which was released in 2008&period; Yet as the MMO market became more and more saturated&comma; Mythic&&num;8217&semi;s fortunes took a turn for the worse&period; Warhammer Online was closed down at the end of last year and the studio was told to leave their MMO past and focus on mobile games&period; In 2013 Mythic released Ultima Forever on mobiles and an iOS version of Dungeon Keeper&comma; both of which were critically panned&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"> EA has now made the decision to continue there mobile development elsewhere and so no longer have any need for Mythic Entertainment&period; The company has stated that it is &&num;8221&semi;working with all impacted employees to provide assistance in finding new opportunities&comma; either within EA or with other companies via an upcoming job fair&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;5&sol;29&sol;5762140&sol;mythic-warhammer-online-dev-shuttered">Polygon<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;