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EA Canada

Type	Public
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Industry	Computer and video game industry
Employees	1,000+
Website	Homepage

EA Canada is a video game developer located in Burnaby, British Columbia, close to Vancouver. The development studio was opened in January 1999 and is EA's largest studio. EA Canada alone employs more than one thousand people and houses the world's largest video game test operation.

Inside the building there are: a motion-capture studio, twenty-two rooms for composing, fourteen video editing suites, three production studios, a wing for audio compositions, and a quality assurance department. There are also facilities such as fitness rooms, a theatre, a cafeteria called EAt, coffee bars and a video games room. The building is situated next to Discovery Park.

EA Black Box was founded when EA acquired Black Box Games in 2002, as a part of EA Canada. It became an independent EA studio in 2005. In March 2003, the firm decided that they lacked space for their current projects so the top four floors of an office tower in downtown Vancouver were used for expansion. Since its founding, EA Black Box has been home to the Need for Speed franchise, among others.

EA Canada is a major studio of the American gaming software giant Electronic Arts or EA, which has several other non-American studios around the globe. EA, based in Redwood City, California, had acquired EA Canada in 1991 for $11 million when this Canadian software firm was then known as Distinctive Software. At the time of the business acquisition, Distinctive Software was noted for developing a number of racing and sporting games published under the Accolade brand. Since becoming EA Canada, it developed many EA Games, EA Sports and EA Sports BIG games.

[edit] Games developed

Below, a list of games EA Canada and EA Black Box have developed. Items with an asterix (*) indicate that they are known to be currently working on that project.

[edit] EA Games

Games developed for publishing by EA Games/EA (EA dropped the "EA Games" brand and now uses only "EA" instead):

• EA Replay
• EA Playground
• Def Jam: Fight for NY
• James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
• Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
• Medal of Honor: Heroes 2
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (PlayStation 2)
• Need for Speed: Underground
• Need for Speed: Underground 2
• Need for Speed: Underground: Rivals (PSP)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted: 5-1-0 (PSP)
• Need for Speed: Carbon
• Need for Speed: Carbon: Own the City (PSP)
• Need for Speed: ProStreet
• Need for Speed: Undercover
• Skate
• Skate 2
• Skate It

[edit] EA Sports

Games developed for publishing by EA Sports:

• 2006 FIFA World Cup
• FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup
• FIFA Manager 06
• FIFA 07
• FIFA 08
• FIFA 09
• Fight Night: Round 4
• Facebreaker
• Celebrity Sports Showdown
• Cricket 07
• Knockout Kings
• Madden NFL 2007 (Wii)
• MVP 06 NCAA Baseball
• NBA Live 2003
• NBA Live 2004
• NBA Live 2005
• NBA Live 06
• NBA Live 07
• NBA Live 08
• NBA Live 09
• NCAA March Madness
• NHL 06
• NHL 07
• NHL 08
• NHL 09
• Rugby 06
• Rugby 08
• Total Club Manager 2005
• UEFA Euro 2004
• UEFA Euro 2008
• EA Sports Tennis 2010

[edit] EA Sports BIG

Games developed for publishing by EA Sports BIG:

• Def Jam Vendetta
• FaceBreaker
• FIFA Street
• FIFA Street 2
• FIFA Street 3
• NBA Street
• NBA Street Vol. 2
• NBA Street V3
• NBA Street Showdown
• NBA Street Homecourt
• NFL Street
• NFL Street 2
• NFL Street 3
• NFL Tour
• SSX
• SSX Tricky
• SSX 3
• SSX On Tour

[edit] External links

• EA Canada and EA Black Box
• List of EA Canada games at GameFAQs
• CanDevs - Canadian Video Game Companies