Electronic Arts has officially welcomed BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios to the EA Games Label. Press release (pdf)

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Megapublisher joining forces with BioWare/Pandemic to distribute its PlayStation 3-exclusive sequel, due this holiday season. :: More

What does it mean to be an independent developer in the age of big publishers? Does it offer greater creative liberties? Next-Gen.Biz spoke to Insomniac Games, Bioware/Pandemic, Foundation 9 and Valve... :: More

Pandemic Studios was thrilled to win the prestigious award. IGN claimed "the Los Angeles-based production crew at Pandemic Studios impressed us more than any other developer this year. It seemed that the team was everywhere you looked in 2005." :: More

...Pandemic has re-confirmed eventual hopes to take the combined company public on the stock exchange, an extremely rare move for a video game developer :: More

Cofounders of now-joined developers talk about their groundbreaking alliance and new business model. :: More

Trifecta of finance and development announces $300 million "creative and management partnership" and creation of new superstudio. :: More

The long-awaited Star Wars Battlefront II™ is now available in stores.

Today mankind's worst fears have been realized. An unidentified flying object appeared suddenly in our otherwise peaceful skies. The goal of its mission was clear: Destroy All Humans! :: More

Set for a Fall 2005 release on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and Windows platforms, Star Wars Battlefront II™ takes the best-selling Star Wars video game of all time one Imperial-walker step forward with all-new space combat, playable Jedi, and never-before-seen environments straight out of the Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith film. :: More

Sequel to the critically acclaimed squad-based/real-time tactical combat game, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers™ takes the brand’s innovative and authentic military gaming experience to the next level with new features in every aspect of the game. :: More

Mercenaries™ and Full Spectrum Warrior™ were both big winners this year at the PS2 Norway Awards 04-05. Mercenaries™ picked up a total of four awards, including Best Game for Xbox, Best Action Game for PS2, and the Best Single Player Experience for PS2. In addition, Mercenaries™ also received a People's Choice Award for Best Action Game for Xbox. The People's Choice Awards are voted on directly by PS2 Norway readers. Full Spectrum Warrior™ won the coveted KjRi award. This award has no nominees. It is awarded to a title based on originality and uniqueness.

The accolades for Mercenaries™ continue to pour in. Game critics for all the major gaming platforms are calling this revolutionary, 3rd person action-shooter game "the first awesome game of the year" (Official Playstation Magazine - February 2005). :: More

Look for Pandemic Studios in the Career Pavilion of this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) starting March 8th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. If you believe you have the skills, the experience, and the passion to work with one of Pandemic’s award winning development teams, we would love to talk to you.

Like a series of thundering airstrikes, Mercenaries™ explodes into stores across America today - and the reviewers are already gushing. IGN’s Doug Perry calls it, "a wild ride of pure action and destruction." Rob Semsey of Team Xbox proclaims it, "one bad mamma jamma," and "the first must-have Xbox title of 2005." And there are high scores galore: EGM awards it a 86.7, OPM UK a 90, and GameSpy scores the PS2 version a 90 and the Xbox version a perfect 100!

Full Spectrum Warrior™ tied for first place in the Best Strategy/Simulation category at Ziff Davis’s 1UP "Best of" Awards Show. The awards presentation, part of the Computer Electronics Show, was held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on January 6. Pandemic President Josh Resnick and Director of Production Greg Borrud were present at the ceremony.

FSW, which shares the title for best strategy/simulation game of 2004 with The Sims 2, competed against a roster of other distinguished titles including The Urbz (Electronic Arts), Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War (THQ), Pikmin 2 (Nintendo), Evil Genius (Vivendi), Kohan II (Gathering/Take-Two), Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth (Electronic Arts), Rome: Total War (Activision), Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots (Microsoft) and Phantom Brave (Nippon Ichi).

Available today! Get a taste of the hard-hitting action of Pandemic’s thrilling new ‘Playground of Destruction’, Mercenaries™, when you purchase Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas at your local EB or Gamestop. The stand-alone demo features one contract (mission) from the game in which you can play with tanks, helicopters, and an assortment of weapons, including airstrikes. Don’t walk –run – and get your copy today!

Pandemic Studios was proud to be nominated this week as a finalist for Game Developer of the Year by the 2004 Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards. With awards in 30 unique categories honoring achievements involving games, music and film, television and video, the Billboard Digital Entertainment Award recognizes the cutting-edge developments and forward thinkers shaping the future of entertainment.

Pandemic Studios was one of only a handful of other game developers who were considered for this prestigious award. The other finalists included BioWare, Maxis, and Ubisoft Montreal. Winners were announced at a Gala Dinner in Los Angeles on November 5 that featured speakers from a wide variety of digital entertainment fields.

Game critics everywhere are praising the recently released Star Wars Battlefront™. With eye-popping special effects, fast-paced multiplayer action, and a multitude of vehicles and weapons to play with, it is little wonder why reviewers for all the major gaming platforms - Xbox, PS2, and PC – agree that Pandemic's latest release is one of the best Star Wars games to date.

At midnight Monday night, the gates of Best Buy in Westwood finally swung open and hoards of fans poured in to snap up their copies of Star Wars Battlefront and the new Star Wars Trilogy DVD. :: More

Pandemic Studios recently turned six, and in keeping with their annual tradition, threw a giant party to celebrate. Over 200 Pandemic employees, friends, and family invaded the Yamashiro restaurant and partied until midnight. Witnesses reported that the elegant, 5-star restaurant never knew what hit it. "One minute we were sitting and enjoying our chicken teriyaki, and the next thing we knew, there were hundreds of Pandemic employees running around," reported a witness who wished to remain anonymous. :: More

THQ's Full Spectrum Warrior™ release party was held on June 17 at both Pandemic Studios' Westwood location and Fort Benning, Georgia. The bi-coastal event drew hundreds of people including journalists from print, digital, and TV mediums. :: More

In the afterglow of the warm public reception to the four Pandemic games shown on the floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2004 earlier this month, awards and nominations have begun pouring in. Each title has received multiple award nominations, and for the second straight year, the E3 Game Critics have nominated a Pandemic game for Best Original Game and Best Simulation. :: More

Pandemic Studios announced today that they are showing four titles on the convention floor at this week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In addition to the recently announced Mercenaries™ and Star Wars Battlefront™, both co-developed and published by LucasArts, Pandemic will also be bringing back E3 2003’s "Best Original Game" and "Best Simulation", Full Spectrum Warrior™, and will be introducing an exciting new game from their Australian Studio, Destroy All Humans!™ :: More

LucasArts officially announced that it will deploy Mercenaries™, an open-ended third person combat-action game this fall for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Set in North Korea where a hardliner coup has plunged the troubled nation into chaos, an elite private military company has dispatched a lone mercenary to track down 52 fugitive members of the old hardliner regime before they can launch a nuclear attack. :: More

Today Pandemic Studios and publisher LucasArts officially announced Star Wars Battlefront™, an intense open-ended multiplayer action game set in the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Battlefront™ will put fans and gamers in the heat of the action as they re-live all of the epic battles from the classic and prequel eras of the Star Wars universe. :: More

The critically-acclaimed Full Spectrum Warrior™ has an offical home on the world wide web. After months of development, the new website is online and available for public viewing. The site will act as a 'one stop shop' for all Full Spectrum Warrior™ related material, including links to press reviews, demo movies, MOUT tactics, and more. :: More

…And still growing. With over 100 employees working on multiple projects, Pandemic Studios’ steady growth was finally exceeding the capacity of the old Bay Street warehouse in Santa Monica. "We had nowhere to put people," laughs Kent Schuelke, Pandemic's office manager. "It wasn’t going to be long before we were going to start seating our new hires out in the street!" :: More