{"id":121438,"date":"2017-10-18T12:20:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121438"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:23:25","slug":"ea-shutters-visceral-and-pivots-forthcoming-star-wars-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/121438-ea-shutters-visceral-and-pivots-forthcoming-star-wars-game","title":{"rendered":"EA shutters Visceral and &#8220;pivots&#8221; forthcoming Star Wars game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA is closing its\u00a0Visceral studio, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/news\/an-update-on-the-visceral-star-wars-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The studio was responsible for the Dead Space franchise, and was working on an\u00a0action-adventure title set in the Star Wars universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has become clear that to deliver an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come, we needed to pivot the design,\u201d said EA of the new Star Wars game.<\/p>\n<p>This move led to several changes, including a development team from EA\u2019s Worldwide Studios taking over the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Visceral studio will be ramping down and closing, and we\u2019re in the midst of shifting as many of the team as possible to other projects and teams at EA.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/120752-great-video-games-that-we-wish-got-sequels.html\"><strong>Great video games that we wish got sequels<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA is closing its\u00a0Visceral studio, the company announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":83689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20582,1494,2581],"class_list":["post-121438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-electronic-arts-ea","tag-star-wars","tag-visceral-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}