Electronic Arts Redwood Shores is EA’s most diverse development studio with franchises ranging from the best-selling The Sims to world-renown Hollywood licensed properties like James Bond, The Godfather and THE SIMPSONS. In 2004 the EA Redwood Shores studio welcomed EA’s Maxis Studio to the headquartered campus for combined development talents and resources. The newly formed studio is EA’s second largest development hub and one of EA’s premier development studios.

The EARS Studio develops and produces games for next generation console systems such as the Xbox 360 as well as the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and PSP from Sony, Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo DS, GameCube™, Game Boy® Advance, the PC and online.

EARS Studio uses technology and creativity to create mainstream entertainment through an interactive medium. To achieve deep interactive experiences, the studio combines diverse talents such as engineering, high-end digital artists, animators, lighters and modelers with contributions from storywriters, film directors, musicians, and audio directors.

EA’s headquarters based studio has a long history of game development dating back 20 years. Today the EARS studio develops games for the following franchises under both the EA SPORTS and EA brand:

• The Sims
• SimCity
• Tiger Woods and the PGA TOUR Golf
• Games based on the James Bond property
• Games based on The Godfather property
• Games based on the Lord of the Rings property
• Games based on THE SIMPSONS property