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£14.41m
STATISTICS Founded: 1998 Owned by: Electronic Arts
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TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 10
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EA TIBURON
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Wii, PS3, XB360
JUL 09
£9.36m
ELECTRONIC ARTS
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PS3, XB360, Wii
AUG 09
£1.71m
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PS3, XB360
AUG 08
£1.64m
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XB360, PS3, PSP, PS2
AUG 08
£0.84m
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DS
MAR 09
£0.46m
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MADDEN NFL 10
COUNTRY: USA
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TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 09
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MADDEN NFL 09
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HENRY HATSWORTH: THE PUZZLING ADVENTURE
IF IT AIN’T broke, don’t fix it – we can only guess this is the motto used by EA to describe its erstwhile Tiburon, Florida offices. With the jury out on EA’s shift to original IP and its recent closing of studios and projects across the board – let alone its middling push into the casual, online, and social spaces, or the slightly desperate-seeming $400 million purchase of Facebook startup PlayFish – you’d
think the banker behind Tiger Woods and Madden was otherwise untouchable. Not so. Jobs went at Tiburon in January 2009 and more in November last year, as EA took out 2,500 positions from across its development resources in barely two years. Despite the losses, the studio added a new IP to its roster – fighting game EA Sports MMA – for release later this year.