Electronic Arts has reportedly made the verdict to shut down one among its studios in North Carolina. The studio focused mainly on free-to-play games for mobile devices.

The report comes from website The Escapist which received word of the studio’s closure from an anonymous source. The studio worked on and maintained games like Monopoly Hotels, which released for iOS devices in 2011. The anonymous source told The Escapist that almost all of the workers could be relocated within Electronic Arts.

[Source: The Escapist]

Our Take
Studio closures are never excellent news. We are hoping that the employees of the North Carolina studio should be capable of finding new work, or continuing work at Electronic Arts quickly. I’m curious what the enormous picture implications are for Electronic Arts to near down a studio occupied with free-to-play games. Are free-to-play games not performing well for Electronic Arts? They’re certainly performing well for some publishers.