EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! 🤮
These layoffs come just months after the unexpected death of Battlefield franchise head Vince Zampella in a car accident. They also come as EA is preparing to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for approximately $55 billion.
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AI
Edit: this was a bad call by me, it turns out everything appears to be accurate. I just was making assumptions based off of outdated information
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AIEdit: this was a bad call by me, it turns out everything appears to be accurate. I just was making assumptions based off of outdated informationFrom EA’s website:
https://news.ea.com/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-55-Billion/default.aspx
PIF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund
You would think that I would do some basic fact checking…
I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI
Granted, you probably don’t have the IGN budget for it
Oh is this one of Mr. Bonesaw’s ventures, or a different thing?