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Pandemic Studios entwickeln Lord of the Rings: Conquest - An Saurons Seite in die Schlacht um Mittelerde
Pandemic Studios entwickeln Lord of the Rings: Conquest - An Saurons Seite in die Schlacht um Mittelerde 13. May 2008 – 20:50 Die Electronic Arts Tochtergesellschaft Pandemic Studios entwickelt gegenwärtig Lord of the Rings: Conquest für Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC und Nintendo DS. Das Spiel erscheint weltweit im Herbst 2008.
Lord of the Rings: Conquest será lançado no final do ano
A Eletronic Arts anunciou Conquest, o novo game da série O Senhor dos Anéis. Título tem lançamento previsto para o final de 2008 nas plataformas PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 e Nintendo DS.
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Website
www.pandemicstudios.com
Pandemic Studios is a video game developer with offices in Los Angeles, California and Brisbane, Australia. The studio is notable for featuring fully-destructible environments in its games. Recent titles include Full Spectrum Warrior, Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Battlefront II, Destroy All Humans! and Mercenaries.
History
The company's president is Josh Resnick and its CEO is Andrew Goldman — both formerly worked at Activision, and Pandemic was founded with an equity investment by Activision in 1998. Pandemic's first two games, Battlezone II and Dark Reign 2, were both sequels to Activision games.
In 2000, Pandemic opened a satellite studio in the Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley. The first project was Army Men RTS, a console RTS game using the Dark Reign 2 engine. This studio would later develop Destroy All Humans!.
In 2003, the Los Angeles studio moved from its founding location at Santa Monica to a high-rise building in Westwood.
In November 2005, it was announced that Pandemic and BioWare would be joining forces, with private equity fund Elevation Partners investing in the partnership. However, both companies will retain their brands and identities.
On October 11, 2007, it was announced that VG Holding Corp, the owners of Bioware and Pandemic Studios, will be acquired by Electronic Arts as of January 2008, subject to FTC approval.
Teams
There are currently several development teams inside Pandemic:
Full Spectrum Warrior team, responsible for the original game as well as its sequel, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers.
Star Wars team, who developed the Star Wars: Battlefront series, and who are now working on The Lord of the Rings: Conquest.
Mercenaries team, is currently working on a sequel, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, which will be published by EA Games.
Project B, Q, Z teams, currently working on several unannounced projects and the recently announced Saboteur, a game chronicling the adventures of a French resistance fighter during WWII.
The Brisbane Team, which is currently working on project B. Pandemic Studios is not producing Destroy All Humans! 3.
Games developed
Battlezone II (1999)
Dark Reign 2 (2000)
Triple Play 2002 (2002)
Army Men RTS (2002)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (video game) (2002)
Full Spectrum Warrior (2004)
Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)
Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005)
Destroy All Humans! (2005)
Destroy All Humans! 2 (2006)
Games planned
Saboteur (TBA)
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (2008)
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (2008)
Bratz Kidz: Slumber Party (2008)
The Dark Knight (Video Game) (2008)
Pandemic also has four projects planned simply entitled Projects B, Q, and Z.
References
^Bioware & Pandemic Merge - TotalGaming.net news, 3 November 2005
