The image above is not an official logo, it’s just a spliced and resized EA stacked on top of Firemint’s emblem, but it gets the point across. Gaming giant Electronic Arts announced an agreement to purchase Australian developer Firemint (makers of Flight Control and Real Racing) in a press release earlier today.
I got wind of this news from Joystiq.com, where it was also reported that this isn’t the first time the two companies have worked together: Firemint apparently did a couple of mobile (read: cellphone) franchise games for EA a few years back in the form of Madden NFL 3D and Need for Speed Most Wanted.
Nobody can really be sure about what this acquisition will mean for the quality of upcoming Firemint games, but I’m not terribly optimistic because of my experience with EA games on other platforms. My impression is that they tend to put a lot of downward pressure on developers to develop with a quantity rather than quality focus. However, maybe Firemint on the EA bandwagon will make titles like Need for Speed (which are decent, but nowhere near Real Racing quality) better by osmosis.
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