BioWare’s deepest universe to date with over 80 hours of gameplay and more than double the size and scope of Mass Effect.With the return of an ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon once and for all. All rights reserved.You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of a legendary order of guardians. There’s been turnover,” he said.Īll contents of this site © American City Business Journals Inc. They’re doing well, and generally, other game developers aren’t doing well. “There are tons of iPhone game developers here in town. Greenstone said he has friends at a large gaming company in Austin who are steadily leaving the company, as its business suffers, to nurture their own iPhone game development.
Austin studios with California based parent companies have suffered as corporate offices looked to reduce costs by closing satellite locations.īut those embracing iPhone game development are seeing business boom, he said.
Greenstone said the gaming industry is taking a hard hit in general, as consumers scale back on purchases.
“It seems whenever a company like that does open an office here, it has a wake effect with other companies here.” “EA’s the biggest fish you could hook for this city, in terms of video game companies,” Greenstone said.
If Electronic Arts ramps up its presence in Austin, it would be a significant move in the gaming industry, said Brian Greenstone, president and CEO of Pangea Software Inc. Tate doesn’t know what the newly leased space is meant to house, but he said the company is relocating at least some of its space from the Park North office complex in Northwest Austin to the Domain.Ī list of positions for hire on Electronic Arts’ Web site includes 12 positions in Austin, ranging from Java programmer to flash artist and server developer for BioWare and Pogo. BioWare’s Austin office makes console games, and the team works on that site’s subscription gaming services, Macrae said. The company, which develops, publishes and distributes interactive software for video game systems, personal computers, the Internet and wireless devices, has top-selling games that include “Madden NFL 09” and “Need for Speed Undercover.”Įlectronic Arts has a two-pronged presence in Austin through BioWare and, both housed in the same location. Worldwide, Electronic Arts employs about 9,000 people, according to its Web site. Macrae also declined to say how many employees the company has in Austin. Colin Macrae, a spokesman for Electronic Arts, confirmed that the company signed the Domain lease, but he declined to give additional details - including whether the leased space will house a new studio or is simply new space for the company’s existing Austin employees, whether Electronic Arts will add more employees with the move, or how much space the company’s studios currently occupy. It’s not clear what Electronic Arts has planned for the new space. “EA complements the existing tenant base, and fits well with the overall vision for the mixed-use, vertical, progressive community we are building at the Domain.” “We are excited to soon have Electronic Arts at Domain 2,” he said. Domain 2 was a remodel of former manufacturing space that once belonged to IBM, so the building has a long history of blue chip tech users, Tate said. expanded its lease in the same building earlier this year. Kristi Simmons and Steve Sanders of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the tenant.įor the Domain, the new tenant is one of several high-tech occupants Kingsisle Entertainment Inc. Tate and Travis Dunaway, also of Endeavor, represented the owner. (NYSE: MWY) occupied until last December, when the Chicago-based developer and publisher of video games closed its Austin studio.Įlectronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS), which already has a presence in Austin through its BioWare studio and group, will move into the Domain in early 2010, said Jonathan Tate, vice president of Endeavor Real Estate Group’s office and industrial division. has signed a lease for 50,000 square feet in the Domain 2, the space that Midway Games Inc.
The Domain has landed one of the year’s largest leases, bringing one of the top gaming companies into space once occupied by another gaming giant.Įlectronic Arts Inc.