Friday, February 10th, 2012

As Madden would say: BOOM you’re fired!

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Video game maker Electronic Arts said Friday it plans to cut 1,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, after announcing in October it would cut just 6 percent.

The news follows a warning last week that it would miss its revenue and earnings targets for fiscal-year 2009. Most of the job cuts should be completed by the end of the fiscal year on March 31, 2009, EA said.

EA, in Redwood City, California, also plans to consolidate nine of its locations, closing some of them. One of the facilities that will close is Black Box Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company said Friday. Its development teams and game franchises will move to an EA studio nearby in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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