by selling itself to another company.The company is still getting off the
ground, but Andover Games will merge with Ascend Acquisition Corp., earning $4
million in Ascend stock, and gaining a $250,000 loan to create its first mobile
game, Dino Park.Outside of its first game, Andover plans to NBA 2K18 MT use its funding to
grow the company and accelerate the creation of its development tools and other
products. Andover hopes to launch Dino Park in early 2012.
After a series of negotiations late last year, Electronic Arts has decided
to shut down the Guildford-based Bright Light Studios, which is responsible for
the publisher's most recent licensed Harry Potter titles.Details on the Buy NBA 2K18 MT
aftermath are sparse, but Bright Light officially closed its doors in
mid-November, resulting in job losses and select reassignments for its former
staff, reports Develop.The number of affected employees has not been disclosed,
but some Bright Light ex-pats
reportedly moved on to join other EA studios such as Criterion and Playfish,
while others have joined Jagex and neighboring Guildford studio Supermassive
Games.In October, EA said it had entered into talks with Bright Light employees
over a proposed closure in an effort to "centralize development on future
projects, reduce development costs and will allow for better knowledge and
talent sharing within the organization."During these talks, EA stressed that
"the UK is a vital
of game development for EA and we intend to maintain a strong presence
here."With Bright Light gone, EA is left with two more studios in the UK: the
Burnout and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit developer Criterion Games and the social
game studio Playfish.Outside of EA's most recent Harry Potter releases, Bright
Light was responsible for Create, an experimental user-generated content project
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