Pandemic Studios

And I think that with this push... to this like kind of you know gun and ball company yeah uh owned by a foreign government um i think that like i worry that they will eventually close and all these ips with them will die too like that's where i i see it going it's like ea has just become this black hole of all the studios and games that it has amassed and it's just it's just getting worse and worse and worse

It is that I saw in the chat someone say Pandemic, the team that made the Mercenary Games and the Saboteur, which are like cult fan hits, and they just killed off these studios and these franchises.

And there was rumors this week or last week about Battlefront 3 was going to be taken on by EA, like some studio like DICE maybe might be taking on Battlefront 3.

It's something that people have been asking for since 2017.

I'm, I'm not even stream it and just see what everyone thinks of it.

But he had an interview with PC gamer and he said, uh, When he joined through former colleagues from Pandemic Studios, where he worked on the Saboteur, one of them was Justin Truman, Bungie's former studio head.

They began working on an unannounced project together.

Bungie later needed help with Marathon, so Ziegler moved over as an advisor before being asked to take over as game director.

Hey, Duke dudes, writing in about the news that Bioware is officially shutting its doors along with the cancellation of the next Mass Effect.

On one hand, given the studio's decade-long struggle to recapture its golden era magic and EA's historical track record with legendary studios like Visceral, Westwood, Pandemic, Boldfrog, the list goes on.

It feels like the writing was on the wall, but on the other hand, seeing an absolute juggernaut of the Western RPG history completely dissolved is a massive gut punch.

Do you think EA could actually do anything meaningful with Bioware's legacy IP moving forward? Could we see Mass Effect or Dragon Age handed off to other EA studios or external partners? Or do you expect these iconic franchises to just sit in the vault indefinitely? And that's where I wanted to round out things, Cog.

Gene's family-friendly stained Xbox Helix shirt is right there with me in the pain that it has been.

We have alluded this so many times.

So we got Battlefront 1 and 2 from Pandemic.

Pandemic got shut down.

So before Criterion got their hands on it, it was Black Box.

And Pandemic, they were the ones that did the original Star Wars Battlefront games on the PS2.

Uh, so yes, also victims of EA's greed.

And, and also because of this, I think that Tony would never going to see another burnout because

Space to ground combat is what I want from Battlefront 3.

I remember, great call, because this is what I was trying to remember, is the leaked footage of the original Battlefront 3 out of Pandemic was you could take an Abu fighter and you could...

Take it, fight it in the air, but then also fly up to the sky and up to space and fight there.

Having those massive, like, planet side comes to mind way, way back when.

Um, but anytime this studio is mentioned, I feel like people are coming out of the woodworks saying how good their games were.

Of course, for my third pick, I'm talking about Pandemic.

Pandemic Games, makers of Lord of the Rings: Conquest, the first couple of Battlefront games.

Those-

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Destroy All Humans.

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Boom, Destroy All Humans 2, Pandemic on the box right there.