Confirmed: Free Radical lets over 100 employees go

People bash EA, but they are actually a really good company to be under.

EA themselves make crappy games, but some of the companies under their umbrella retain the freedoms they had as an independant.

Best example is Warhammer Online. They were allowed to do everything they want and I think the game turned out great.

I would prefer Sega however since they seem to be the only company willing to push out "hard core" games and not the family fun 30+ minigame craptastic crap.

I think it's got more to do with the era of EA. When Larry Probst was in charge, they would buy entire studios and and retrench every single staff member just because they could. And they made crap games.

But John Riccitello EA (current CEO) actually involves decent games and even new IP (Dead space, Mirror's edge). I believe if EA bought Free Radical it wouldn't be such a bad thing, but Time Splitters 4 would definitley be on the HD consoles and PC. Not that anyone on this site should really care that much, as we all have PC's too.