EA Pacific (formerly known as Burst Studios and Westwood Pacific) was a developer formally owned by

Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Entertainment (later renamed Avalon Interactive) was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group. It developed and published games for major platforms and employed developers, including Westwo ...

's North American operations, and was based in

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. Burst Studios was beset by production problems during its early years; Virgin Interactive's president of worldwide publishing, Brett W. Sperry, commented in 1997, "The way the Burst studio was structured made a lot of sense on paper, but for a variety of reasons, it wasn't delivering product at the end of the day." Burst Studios was acquired by

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together with

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and Virgin's North American publishing operations in August 1998. The company was later renamed to Westwood Pacific, under that name, the company developed or co-developed games like ''

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'' and '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2''. It was later renamed to EA Pacific. Some actual

employees were still working with the studio. One of the senior modelers, who worked on ''

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'' (1995), was part of the '' Command & Conquer: Generals'' (2003) team.Chris Remo
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, October 24, 2008 EA Pacific was absorbed into

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in 2003. Some employees then went to

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Games

Cancelled

*''Freak Boy''

References

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