Pandemic Studios: Remembering the Closed Battlefront Developer

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Founded in 1998 by former Activision developers, Pandemic Studios started their run creating great Star Wars games such as Clone Wars, Battlefront 1 and Battlefront 2. They moved on to GTA-style open worlds such as Destroy All Humans, Mercenaries Playground of Destruction and The Saboteur. After being acquired by Electronic Arts alongside Bioware, they would develop Lord of the Rings Conquest and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames before being closed by EA.

0:00 Introduction
1:31 Dark Reign 2 and Battlezone II
2:50 Army Men RTS
4:13 Clone Wars
5:58 Full Spectrum Warrior
7:57 Star Wars: Battlefront
11:21 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
14:49 Destroy All Humans
16:59 Battlefront II
19:30 VGHoldings, Bioware and Electronic Arts
21:49 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
26:00 Lord of the Rings Conquest
28:24 The End of Pandemic
31:03 The Saboteur
33:26 Legacy

Sources:
Pandemic Name Origin
https://web.archive.org/web/20070609133126/http://www.gamespy.com/articles/697/697083p6.hjtml

IGN’s History of Pandemic
https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/12/07/ign-presents-the-history-of-pandemic

Battlezone Programmer Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20120321020736/http://www.jtworld.net/bzmag/bzissue1.pdf

Army Men RTS Preview
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/army-men-rts/1100-2835998/

The Making of Full Spectrum Warrior
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbnkwq/in-the-army-now-the-making-of-full-spectrum-warrior-140

Gaming’s Role in the Military Entertainment Complex
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/22/call-of-duty-gaming-role-military-entertainment-complex

Battlefront 1 Documents
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1321hePwVlRm_PopkEqRXoHt4g99wp_1PJrtkPgoFiXg/edit

Battlefront Dev Diary 1
https://web.archive.org/web/20050208231323/http://archive.gamespy.com/devdiary/february04/swbattlefront1/

Mercs 1 Interview
https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/inside-mercenaries-playground-of-destruction-with-ronald-pieket/

Rogue Leaders
https://archive.org/details/RogueLeadersTheHistoryOfLucasArts/page/n103/mode/2up

The Origin of Destroy All Humans
https://www.inverse.com/article/17492-destroy-all-humans-slayed-xenophobes-pre-trump

Bioware and Pandemic Combine
https://web.archive.org/web/20060423034931/https://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060329/sheffield_01.shtml

Bioware joins with pandemic in late 2005
https://www.engadget.com/2005-11-03-bioware-and-pandemic-bought-combined.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHEiSk3pGjKBN7UL7aOqnlNuWLVfB7rc_FrtKyDj1dsRslFFboHQFTbKuGKmTRFn0U4jWxRVESD75gUo0AfOR-uf4AajJNIfnGJkSGn9ZS158lHi2_KDwXgAqtlExHa3s2rf_A50s_vgvb7vMf_c9Hqp8MQ-RNUNKIQEvZEcnFAA

Bioware Merger Timeline
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bioware-and-pandemic-to-merge-creating-new-super-studio

VG Holdings, Riccitello Departs
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/greg-richardson-promoted-to-vg-holding-ceo

EA Buys VGHoldings, Bioware and Pandemic
https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/10/11/ea-buys-bioware-pandemic

Mercs 2 Creative Director Interview
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/digital-bruckheimer-cameron-brown-on-mercenaries-2

Mercs 2 and the Move to EA
https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/02/22/the-mercenaries-2-interview

Mercs 2 is an 80s Action Movie
https://www.wired.com/2007/08/interview-pande/

Mercenaries 2 Eurogamer
https://www.eurogamer.net/mercenaries-2-world-in-flames-interview

Conquest BTS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLRkqQjo9BqMp2vFNJMbZUwrJ6CLRQGeR

Lord of the Rings Conquest Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20120727160935/http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/925/925509p1.html

Rumor - Brisbane Office Closed
https://kotaku.com/rumor-ea-shuts-down-pandemic-studios-down-under-5130836

Pandemic Closed
https://kotaku.com/confirmed-ea-closes-pandemic-studios-says-brand-will-5406830

Mercs Inc
https://news.ea.com/press-releases/press-releases-details/2009/Pandemic-Studios-Announces-Mercs-Inc/default.aspx

Former Employee Speaks on Pandemic Closure, Saboteur “sent out to die”
https://web.archive.org/web/20091122151834/https://www.destructoid.com/saboteur-sent-out-to-die-pandemic-closure-was-right--155508.phtml

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