EA Canada
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| Type | Public |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada |
| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
| Employees | 1,000+ |
| Website | Homepage |
EA Canada is a video game developer located in Burnaby, British Columbia, close to Vancouver. The development studio was opened in January 1999 and is EA's largest studio. EA Canada alone employs more than one thousand people.
Inside the building there is: a motion-capture studio, twenty-two rooms for composing, fourteen video editing suites, three production studios and a wing for audio compositions. There are also facilities such as fitness rooms, theatre, a cafeteria called EAt, coffee bars and a video games room. The building is situated next to Discovery Park.
EA Black Box was founded when EA acquired Black Box Games in 2002, as a part of EA Canada. It become an independent EA studio in 2005. In March 2003, the firm decided that they lacked enough space for their current projects so the top four floors of an office tower in downtown were used for expansion. EA Black Box have since its founding been home for among others the Need for Speed franchise.
EA Canada is a major studio of the American gaming software giant Electronic Arts or EA, which has several other non-American studios around the globe. EA, based in Redwood City, Cafifornia, had acquired EA Canada in 1991 for $11 million when this Canadian software firm was then known as Distinctive Software. At the time of the business acquisition, Distinctive Software was noted for developing a number of racing and sporting games published under the Accolade brand. Since becoming EA Canada, it developed many EA Games, EA Sports and EA Sports BIG games.
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[edit] Games developed
Below, a list of games EA Canada and EA Black Box have developed. Items with an asterix (*) indicate that they are known to be currently working on that project.
[edit] EA Games
Games developed for publishing by EA Games/EA (EA dropped the "EA Games" brand and now uses only "EA" instead):
- EA Replay
- Def Jam: Fight for NY
- James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
- Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
- Need for Speed: Underground
- Need for Speed: Underground 2
- Need for Speed: Underground: Rivals (PSP)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted: 5-1-0 (PSP)
- Need for Speed: Carbon
- Need for Speed: Carbon: Own the City (PSP)
- Skate*
[edit] EA Sports
Games developed for publishing by EA Sports:
- 2006 FIFA World Cup
- FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup
- FIFA Manager 06
- FIFA Soccer
- Knockout Kings
- Madden NFL 2007 (Wii)
- MVP 06 NCAA Baseball
- NBA Live 2003
- NBA Live 2004
- NBA Live 2005
- NBA Live 06
- NBA Live 07
- NCAA March Madness
- NHL 06
- NHL 07
- Rugby 06
- Total Club Manager 2005
- UEFA Euro 2004
[edit] EA Sports BIG
Games developed for publishing by EA Sports BIG:
- Def Jam Vendetta
- FIFA Street
- FIFA Street 2
- NBA Street
- NBA Street Vol. 2
- NBA Street V3
- SSX
- SSX Tricky
- SSX 3
- SSX On Tour
- SSX Blur
