10 Video Game Studios Killed By Electronic Arts
5. DreamWorks Interactive/Danger Close Games (1995 - 2013)
DreamWorks Interactive was founded following a joint venture between Steven Spielberg and Microsoft in 1995, mostly creating video game tie-ins associated with properties produced by Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures. In 1999 DreamWorks published Medal of Honor, with the franchise spawning ten more titles in the series.
Following the success of Medal of Honor, EA purchased the company and rebranded them as EA Los Angeles. This resulted in the studio losing the rights to DreamWork's film properties, but retaining the rights to produce entries in the Medal of Honor series. Under EA's direction they produced several hits such as Goldeneye: Rogue Agent and the Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth series.
In 2010 EA announced the studio was to be renamed Danger Close Games so that they could exclusively work on the MoH franchise. This lasted all of two years until the release of Medal of Honor: Warfighter, which underperformed both critically and commercially.
Immediately after this EA announced that Medal of Honor would be taken "out of rotation", which left poor Danger Close Games with no original IPs of their own to work on. This essentially killed the company outright, who have since been relegated to working on post-launch content for the Battlefield franchise.