Electronic Arts Canada

Electronic Arts Canada

Want to be part of the Next Generation of games development? EA is the leading developer for next gen games and looking for passionate gamers who want to be a part of this exciting time.

EA Canada currently has dozens of games in production and aside from some of the most profitable game titles like FIFA, NBA Street, NHL and Need for Speed, we are also developing some home-grown next gen New IP games as well for the Wii, PSP, XBox360 and PS3 including recently announced titles such as Boogie, Playground and Skate. A big emphasis moving forward is our drive towards online gaming with the advent of next gen console capabilities.

EA life feels just like what you dreamed a job could be. We’ve created a fun, casual work environment that let’s you be who you are and puts you at ease…so you can make great games! Our main Burnaby campus, Electronic Arts Canada, is EA's largest facility with 400,000 square feet in a state of the art campus-like environment, with over 1700 employees, comes complete with a cafeteria, fitness centre, arcade lounge, intramural sports, indoor/outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, soccer field and a huge theatre.

Our Downtown campus, Electronic Arts Black Box, captures the top four floors of a high-rise in Vancouver’s downtown waterfront. EAX is 70,000 square feet of panoramic views of the city, harbour, and mountains! The studio is well equipped with multiple sound studios, game trial theaters, disco lounge, cafeteria, arcade, DJ booth, gym, company store and outdoor balcony complete with fireplace and barbeque. Enjoy all that the downtown core has to offer all the while working on one of EA’s most successful franchises – NEED FOR SPEED!!!

Website:
http://www.ea.com
Categories:
Gaming
Address:
4330 Sanderson Way
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5G 4X1

Blog Posts About Electronic Arts Canada

Electronic Arts to invest in VanEdge Capital
Private Equity blog peHUB's Alexander Haislip is reporting that Electronic Arts is poised to invest in VanEdge Capital's $200 million Canadian venture capital fund and that the fund expects to hold... [more]
Biggest video game developers in BC
Business in Vancouver annual list of the Biggest video game developers in BC was publsihed today and the usual suspects are near the top. Rankings are based on the number of staff working in... [more]
Electronic Arts lays off 1,500
Earlier today Electronic Arts announced that it had acquired social gaming startup Playfish for $300 Million. This afternoon, Electronic Arts said it would lay off 1,500 workers by April 2010,... [more]
Electronic Arts gets social with Playfish acquisition
In what is turning out to be Acquistion Monday, Electronic Arts annouced today that it has acquired social gaming startup Playfish for $275 Million in cash. An additional $25 Million in stock will... [more]
Vancouver Jobs of the Week
Here are five job opportunities that caught our eye on the Techvibes Vancouver Job Board this week. Check out the full job descriptions and get your resume in asap if you're interested. ... [more]
Is Ottawa still Silicon Valley North?
Canada's capital once had a nickname likening it to the sunny California home of companies like Apple and Google - Silicon Valley North. This month, Ottawa's former high-tech start Nortel began... [more]
June 26 - Weekly Vancouver Game Industry News
Lots of news from the fringe of Vancouver's game industry this week! As always, if you have any tidbits you should be sharing them here, contact me via my website.   No Robots' Jamble Launch... [more]
Weekly News Bits from Vancouver's Game Industry
Every week I cover brief news swept up from the dirty floors of Vancouver's game industry. If you have something you think should be passed along here - a rumour, a tip, a launch, a party, a new... [more]
EA hires in Waterloo for Social Gaming
According to Gamasutra, Electronic Arts continues to expand into the digital market and is hiring for a "new social gaming platform" at its relatively unknown EA Waterloo office. Job listings... [more]
Vancouver Jobs of the Week
Here are five job opportunities that caught our eye on the Techvibes Vancouver Job Board this week. Check out these job descriptions and get your resume in asap if you're interested. Director,... [more]
Electronic Arts backs Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Ego
A couple days ago, actor and Twitter-fanatic Ashton Kutcher promised to punk CNN founder Ted Turner if he beats CNN to be the first Twitter user with one million followers. Kutcher is currently... [more]
The Future at Electronic Arts in Burnaby
The Burnaby Board of Trade, in partnership with the BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA), is hosting The Future of Technology next week at the Electronic Arts campus in Burnaby. Pascal... [more]
Intellectual Property is King in the Gaming Space
Today in the Globe & Mail, Blaine Kyllo wrote about the changing landscape in the video-game industry and how the current economy may change the way games are financed in the future. ... [more]
Edmonton's BioWare launches new team in Montreal
James Brightman of GameDaily is reporting that Edmonton-based Bioware is launching a new team in Montreal using the existing Electronics Arts Montreal studio. GameDaily BIZ just got off the... [more]
Does BC's Gaming Industry need a Stimulus Package?
In the current issue of the Georgia Straight, Blaine Kyllo ponders whether local video-game developers need government assistance in an article titled Video game executives seek stimulus in B.C.... [more]
Vancouver's Video Game Family Tree
The search string "Vancouver + Gaming" is an surpisingly popular search query. As a result, a Techvibes blog post published a year ago titled The Gaming Industry in Vacouver was one of our most... [more]
Black Box axes majority of staff
Gaming blog Gamasutra is reporting that Vancouver-based studio EA Black Box laid off the majority of its staff yesterday. Upwards of 200 of the Electronic Arts-owned development house are said... [more]
Electronic Arts lay-offs becoming a reality in 2009
Got word from a former Burnaby-based Electronic Arts employee that had relocated to their Tiburon office in Orlando that he was included in the latest round of EA lay-offs. Looks like the staff... [more]
EA brings charity to consoles
Gamers get a bum rap as couch-bound, anti-social loners who spend all their time blasting virtual opponents to smithereens. Of course, anyone with even a passing knowledge of modern gaming knows... [more]
Edmonton's Bioware is getting nervous
The Edmonton Journal seems to think hometown Bioware Corporation will be one of the nine planned studio closures that Electronic Arts (EA) announced today. Only one facility was identified in... [more]
EA cuts 10 percent of its workforce, shutters Vancouver’s Black Box Studio
Gaming giant Electronic Arts is cutting 1,000 jobs worldwide, or 10 percent of its staff, in a bid to save money after a year where the company had, in the words of CEO John Riccitello, seen a... [more]
EA Drops Plan for Still-In-Progress Yaletown Studio
Straight out the window of the Techvibes office in Yaletown, we've been watching crews build another two floors onto a previously three storey heritage building. As we first reported back in May,... [more]
Electronic Arts outlook calls for headcount reductions
Electronic Arts (EA) announced today that it expects net revenue and earnings per share for fiscal year 2009 to be below the financial guidance previously provided at the end of October. The... [more]
Montreal Rivals Vancouver As Canada's Biggest Game Development Centre
Montreal Tech Watch discusses how Montreal has become a mature centre of game development, with the studies to prove it. Statistics count 4,953 people employed in the Montreal video game industry,... [more]
Big Fish in a Big Pond
While this is hardly news to anyone in our building, the Vancouver Sun's Marke Andrews wrote today about Seattle's Big Fish Games opening a Vancouver studio. Their new Yaletown digs are one floor... [more]
Belt tightening in Vancouver Gaming Industry
The gaming industry has proven to be pretty resilient to economic downturns, especially around this time of the year when holiday shopping kicks in and the latest game titles are stacked under the... [more]
EA plans layoffs as sales slow
Today Electronic Arts cuts its full-year profit forecast due to a delay in the latest Harry Potter video game and its stock fell 14 percent. They also announced that they plan to cut about 6... [more]
Take Six on Take-Two Offer to Expire
Vancouver's Electronic Arts (EA) said it won't extend a Monday evening deadline for its $2- Billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. - best known for the popular... [more]
Electronic Arts gets an Agent
Historically video game producers have relyed heavily on established comic book and literary franchises for game concepts but it seems the tables have turned and the list of films based on video... [more]
Electronic Arts Coming to Yaletown
Big news out of Techvibes' Yaletown neighborhood - Electronic Arts (EA) is coming to the 'hood. Apparently EA's lack of a Yaletown address has been hurting their recruiting efforts in the gaming... [more]
EA picks up Bioware for close to a billion
Games giant Electronic Arts, which maintains two facilities in Vancouver, announced they will acquire Edmonton-based Bioware, along with fellow studio Pandemic, to the tune of $860 million.... [more]