Rumour-mill: EA job culls aimed to hit Maxis, Pandemic, C&C4 team

The bombshell that publisher EA would be shedding 1,500 jobs is tragic enough, but now studios are starting to be named as the victims.

According to sources, C&C4: Tiberian Twilight’s development team have been told of their post-launch fate - they’re all to go elsewhere.

”Also said to be affected heavily are Spore and former-Sims studio EA Maxis, social network gaming acquisition Rupture Studios, and Mercenaries and The Saboteur creators Pandemic Studios LA,” reports Kotaku, citing their sources.

They’ll be hit hard with cuts and those spared the purge will be relocated to EA headquarters in Los Angeles and Redwood Shores. So far EA is believed to have let go developers from Tiburon, Mythic Entertainment and Black Box - all unconfirmed.

What will happen with Command & Conquer 4 post-release? Who’ll handle updates? It’s not a good sign for the series to know the team behind it is finished come launch. Perhaps EA are to just cut and run from the long-time RTS franchise?