EA Pacific

EA PacificType| Subsidiary

|

Industry| Video games
Fate| Dissolved, operation merged into EA Los Angeles
Founded| 1995
Defunct| 2003
Headquarters| Irvine, California
Owner| Virgin Interactive (1995–1998)
Electronic Arts (1998–2003)
Parent| Virgin Interactive North America (1995-1998)
Westwood Studios (1998-2003)

EA Pacific (formerly known as Burst Studios and Westwood Pacific) was a developer formally owned by Virgin Interactive's North American operations, and was based in Irvine, California. Burst Studios was beset by production problems during its early years; Virgin Interactive's president of worldwide publishing, Brett W. Sperry, commented in 1997, "The way the Burst studio was structured made a lot of sense on paper, but for a variety of reasons, it wasn't delivering product at the end of the day."[1] Burst Studios was acquired by Electronic Arts together with Westwood Studios and Virgin's North American publishing operations in August 1998.[2] The company was later renamed to Westwood Pacific, under that name, the company developed or co-developed games like Nox and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.

It was later renamed to EA Pacific. Some actual Westwood Studios employees were still working with the studio. One of the senior modelers, who worked on Command & Conquer (1995), was part of the Command & Conquer: Generals (2003) team.[3]

EA Pacific was absorbed into EA Los Angeles in 2003. Some employees then went to Petroglyph Games.

## Contents

* 1 Games
* 1.1 Cancelled
* 2 References
* 3 External links

## Games

Year  | Title  | Platform(s)

|
|

As Burst Studios
1996  | Spot Goes to Hollywood | PlayStation
Sega Saturn
Toonstruck | DOS
1997  | Grand Slam | Microsoft Windows
PlayStation
Sega Saturn
SubSpace | Microsoft Windows
As Westwood Pacific
1998  | Golden Nugget 64 | Nintendo 64
2000  | Nox | Microsoft Windows
2000  | Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | Microsoft Windows
As EA Pacific
2003  | Command & Conquer: Generals | Microsoft Windows

### Cancelled

* Freak Boy

## References

1. ↑ "Cleaning Time: Corporations Slim Down". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (31): 23. July 1997. https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_31/page/n23.
2. ↑ Morris, Chris (August 17, 1998). "Electronic Arts buys Westwood Studios". CNN. https://money.cnn.com/1998/08/17/life/q_ea/.
3. ↑ Chris Remo: Interview: Inside The Heritage Of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Gamasutra, October 24, 2008

## External links

* EA Pacific at MobyGames

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA Pacific. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Company:EA_Pacific&oldid=2707579"