News EA buys Bioware and Pandemic

http://www.sega.com/gamesite/universeatwar/fullsite/

from the guys that exited westwood after it was "Borged" by EA (formed petroglyph) and backed up by SEGA

 

That seems very much like c&c 3. Which i thought was a total fail. I couldn't even get online when i tried and then just stoped playing.


What other good studioes are there? I dont tend to follow studioes as such but i know about cryteck, dice, westwood, bioshock, pandemic . Any which arn't owned by EA? Does tomclancy count as a studio?

 

Crytek doesn't seem to be related to EA
Westwood was bought by EA a long time ago (damn them!)
Dice is owned by EA
Pandemic Studios, currently not owned by EA, but apparently their planning on buying them
TomClancy games are made by ..... Ubisoft - EA own 25% of ubisoft
Bioshock is unrelated to EA

Edit:
Although crytek dont appear to be owned by EA, EA publish crysis

 

There are literally loads of amazing developers who aren't owned by EA.

Junction Point Studios (Owned by Disney now, but left alone.) - Warren Spector (lead designer for Deus Ex, Thief and System Shock) heads this studio
Tell Tale Games - Steve Purcell and Dave Grossman, making great adventure games
Double Fine Software - Tim Schafers developer, made Psychonauts and are making Brutal Legend
2K Boston - ok, owned by 2K, but headed by Ken Levine of System Shock and BioShock
Monolith - Condemend, No One Lives Forever
Valve - Half-life, etc
Bethesda - Oblivion, Fallout 3
Introversion - Defcon, uplink, Darwinia
Travellers Tales - lego star wars
Lucasarts - still making some good non-star wars games

And those are just the good western developers off the top of my head. I could have listed all the Ubisoft Studios, who made Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia, etc.

There's also all the eastern developers - Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, Sega, Square Enix. Personally, I tend not to choose games by publisher or genre, but by developer or studio. If I know Warren Spector is behind something then it's definitely worth a look.

That EA has bought Bioware isn't that shocking, it's just that Bioware is a notable company in a specific market. This type of thing is natural though to spread the talent around, otherwise Bioware create a monopoly on decent RPGs, playing off against Bethesda once every few years. By moving Bioware, the market is stirred and the developers shift, mingle and spread.

 

I wasnt saying everyone was owned by EA

He just gave a list of developers and asked if any were related to EA, and i answered

My favorite studio used to be west wood, but since they were bought by EA they have died a painful death
Epic games are pretty OK, i guess valve is my current favorite developer, although, lower prices would increase that greatly