EA Cuts 400 Jobs, Shelves a Sims Project and Shrinks the skate. Team

EA's restructuring goes well beyond the BioWare shutdown. The company is laying off around 400 people, roughly 3% of its workforce, according to an internal memo from executives David Tinson and Cam Weber, reported by Bloomberg. About 50 of those jobs were tied to the now-canceled new Mass Effect game. The Sims is hit as well, with EA pausing a project codenamed "Project Lotus" to move resources to another one called "Project Evergreen." Several reports describe Lotus as canceled outright. Full Circle, the studio behind skate., is being cut down to what the memo calls a smaller, more focused team, even though EA says the game has done well since it entered early access in September 2025. The same team already went through layoffs earlier this year.

Some projects are getting more attention, however. Respawn and DICE are working together on a new shooter, which Variety's sources say is Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Battlefield, Apex Legends, Motive's Iron Man game, and the next Star Wars Jedi title all continue, and Fight Night is apparently making a comeback. The memo says these decisions came after a months-long hard look at the business. However, we also know that the layoffs are coming a few months after EA went private in a $55 billion buyout led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners, a deal that reportedly left the company with around $20 billion in debt. EA says it will share more about its projects over the coming months.