Electronic Arts Plans to Cut 1,500 Jobs

Electronic Arts is a famous company which prodces many popular games, such as the Madden, Rock Band, and Sims series. Although the company got much profit from those games, it still cannot resist the recent economic recession. Accordingly, the company decided to lay off 1500 workers and shrink the prodcut line. However, for increasing the company's revenue, it had acquired Playfish nad started to make on-line games. Those games now are very popular, and many people who are different age play those games, such as Restaurant city or Pet society very often on facebook. Actually those on-line games are free, so the most of the revenue come from virtual goods. Electronic Arts hoped the acquisition of Playfish can help the company survive in this serious economic recession.