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EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

Comment Re:Doesn't hurt them? (Score 2, Informative) 113

The biggest problem here is that it was used as a form of punishment. It was basically torture, not therapy.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/14/content_8426874.htm

According to the Guangdong-based Information Times, shocks were given if patients broke any of the center's 86 rules, which included prohibitions on eating chocolate, locking the bathroom door, taking pills before a meal, and sitting in Dr. Yang's chair without permission.

Comment Re:Well, hm... (Score 3, Informative) 383

This wasn't an election, it was a poll. Even removing Colbert from the equation they didn't go with the next popular choice, which would have been Serenity. They went with the eighth most popular choice. So in the end they just ignored the results of the poll and picked the one they liked the best, which they had the right to do. So yes, Colbert didn't rig it, but it was most definitely rigged.

Comment Re:eh? (Score 1) 20

it will be a side-scrolling platform shooter like every other bloody tie-in. Another Metal Slug clone, only this time you'll get to shoot bees from your hands.

Take a look at the in-game footage in the article. It's most definitely not a side-scroller.

Comment Re:Rules? (Score 1) 315

Actually if i remember correctly, if you stay below 4,000ft with a light aircraft (in the US anyways) you don't need a pilots license. i could be mistaken though.

You are definitely mistaken. A pilot's license is required to fly a plane at any altitude. However, no license is required to fly an ultralight (single seat, under 250 pounds).

Biotech

Submission + - GM Cancer Potato Study Suppressed for 8 Years

Doc Ruby writes: Welsh activists have released after an 8 year court battle a Russian study that shows increased cancer linked to eating Genetically Modified potatoes, supporting independent research by Arpad Pusztai:

Alan Simpson, a Labour MP and green campaigner, said: "These trials should be stopped. The research backs up the work of Arpad Pusztai and it shows that he was the victim of a smear campaign by the biotech industry. There has been a cover-up over these findings and the Government should not be a party to that." Mr Simpson said the findings, which showed that lab rats developed tumours, were released by anti-GM campaigners in Wales. Dr Pusztai and a colleague used potatoes that had been genetically modified to produce a protein, lectin. They found cell damage in the rats' stomachs, and in parts of their intestines.
While the trials have flaws, those methodological defects seem to downplay an actually higher risk of cancer:

Half of the rats in the trial died, and results were taken from those that survived, in breach of normal scientific practice.

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