Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares has defended Digital Arts, saying he believes the writer has been vilified greater than others.
EA has printed all three of Hazelight‘s video games thus far – A Manner Out, It Takes Two and Cut up Fiction – and Fares is adamant that his studio’s relationship with the writer is a robust one.
In an interview with The Sport Enterprise, Fares was requested about Hazelight’s relationship with EA, provided that the studio has a fame for being rebellious and EA has a fame as a big company.
Fares replied that the partnership continues to work very nicely in his opinion, and that he believes EA will get extra criticism than it warrants at instances.
“There are quite a lot of nice individuals at EA,” he defined. “They understand how we work. They respect it and so they depart us be. Let’s be trustworthy, there’s not a writer on the earth that hasn’t fucked up from time to time.
“Generally I really feel that EA is getting extra shit than they deserve. I imply, come on, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, all people’s achieved one thing that’s not good. However for some cause, EA has change into this dangerous man.
“For us, it’s an excellent good collaboration. I’m very open about. If it was dangerous, I might’ve mentioned that on this interview as nicely. However we now have an ideal relationship. I’m not saying that they haven’t achieved any errors like each different writer.
“All of the individuals I’m surrounded with at EA are avid gamers. They love video games. It’s not like I’m sitting with company individuals with fits. It’s not like that. And folks mustn’t fear, as a result of Hazelight will do all the time what it desires.”
Cut up Fiction was launched in March 2025, and inside roughly two months had offered 4 million copies. The sport, which is performed completely in co-op, follows two writers as they play via ranges based mostly on tales that they’ve tried to get printed.
“Cut up Fiction is visually streets forward of its predecessor It Takes Two, however mechanically the 2 video games are very comparable,” VGC’s Cut up Fiction assessment says.
“The sport is often at risk of verging into repetitive territory with its fixed shifting between two foremost environments, however its wholesome choice of different side-stories and its continually altering mechanics guarantee its gameplay stays participating and entertaining all through, even when the identical can’t all the time be mentioned for its story.”
Final month Digital Arts’ proposed sale to Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund was accredited by the corporate’s shareholders. The takeover will now require approval from authorities regulators to be finalised.
Ought to the acquisition be accredited, Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund will personal 93.4% of the EA Sports activities, Battlefield, and Sims writer. Silver Lake Companions – an funding fund run by a US personal fairness agency– will personal 5.5% of shares.
