400 jobs cut at EA

Electronic Arts is cutting around 400 jobs in a move that will affect about 3% of its global workforce. Variety and Bloomberg appears to have been first to report the news. There was no specific mention of its mobile teams in an internal memo obtained by both outlets, which confirmed that storied RPG developer BioWare would close as part of the cuts, meaning its Edmonton, Canada office will be shuttered. It is also halting work on a new Sims game, codenamed Project Lotus, and refocusing efforts on a Sims title dubbed Project Evergreen.