EA shut down PopCap Games Dublin office

According to the RTÉ news EA has today shut down PopCap Games Dublin office. PopCap Games have made such well known titles as Plants Vs Zombies and Bejeweled.
The closure of the Dublin office will mean 96 staff will be let go from the company. The closure comes about week after EA announced that they would be creating 300 more jobs at their customer experience centre in Galway, which already employee’s 400 staff.
RTÉ News did receive as statement from PopCap which said “outplacement support and many employees have offers in other parts of PopCap, at EA or new opportunities with technology partners in Ireland”.
Source: RTÉ News
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