EA Pacific

EA Pacific (formerly known as Burst Studios and Westwood Pacific) was a developer formally owned by Virgin Interactive's North American operations, and was based in Irvine, California. Burst Studios was beset by production problems during its early years; Virgin Interactive's president of worldwide publishing, Brett W. Sperry, commented in 1997, "The way the Burst studio was structured made a lot of sense on paper, but for a variety of reasons, it wasn't delivering product at the end of the day."[1] Burst Studios was acquired by Electronic Arts together with Westwood Studios and Virgin's North American publishing operations in August 1998.[2] The company was later renamed to Westwood Pacific, under that name, the company developed or co-developed games like Nox and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.

EA Pacific
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
Founded1995
Defunct2003
FateDissolved, operation merged into EA Los Angeles
HeadquartersIrvine, California
OwnerVirgin Interactive (1995–1998)
Electronic Arts (1998–2003)
ParentVirgin Interactive North America (1995-1998)
Westwood Studios (1998-2003)

It was later renamed to EA Pacific. Some actual Westwood Studios employees were still working with the studio. One of the senior modelers, who worked on Command & Conquer (1995), was part of the Command & Conquer: Generals (2003) team.[3]

EA Pacific was absorbed into EA Los Angeles in 2003. Some employees then went to Petroglyph Games.

Games
Year Title Platform(s)
As Burst Studios
1996 Spot Goes to Hollywood PlayStation
Sega Saturn
Toonstruck DOS
1997 Grand Slam Microsoft Windows
PlayStation
Sega Saturn
SubSpace Microsoft Windows
As Westwood Pacific
1998 Golden Nugget 64 Nintendo 64
2000 Nox Microsoft Windows
2000 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 Microsoft Windows
As EA Pacific
2003 Command & Conquer: Generals Microsoft Windows

Cancelled
  • Freak Boy

References
  1. "Cleaning Time: Corporations Slim Down". Next Generation. No. 31. Imagine Media. July 1997. p. 23.
  2. Morris, Chris (August 17, 1998). "Electronic Arts buys Westwood Studios". CNNMoney. CNN. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  3. Chris Remo: Interview: Inside The Heritage Of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Gamasutra, October 24, 2008
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