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by munificent 4516 days ago
Looks like Mattrick brought his well-tread "why retrain when you can swap out people" practices with him from EA.

> On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for US$275 million. On the same day, the company announced layoffs of 1500 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, across a number of studios including EA Tiburon, Visceral Games, Mythic and EA Black Box.

I was at Tiburon when that happened. Not a fun day. :(

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Tiburon made one of my favorite games: Madden 64!