EA Phenomic was a

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video game developer, headquartered in

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, and founded as Phenomic Game Development in 1997 by Volker Wertich, who had previous worked in

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and developed ''

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'' and ''

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''. The studio was acquired by

Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ...

on August 23, 2006 and renamed as EA Phenomic. Electronic Arts announced that EA Phenomic would concentrate on developing

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s. In July 2013, EA closed the studio and laid off the 60 employees.gamesindustry.biz: ''EA Phenomic closed''
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Games developed

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