EA Lays Off Hundreds More Employees, Shifts Focus to Owned IP and Online Games
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EA is laying off around 670 employees, about 5% of its workforce, to focus more on owned IP and online communities
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This comes less than a year after EA's last round of layoffs
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EA is moving away from developing future licensed IP and canceled the Star Wars FPS Respawn was working on
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EA has shut down the Battlefield standalone single-player studio Ridgeline Studios entirely
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The layoffs have taken deep bites out of veteran talent at studios like BioWare that work on EA's most famous franchises