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Electronic Arts laid off an unspecified number of employees today as part of an effort to “streamline” its operations and ensure the company is well-positioned for the upcoming console transition.

“EA is sharpening its focus to provide games for new platforms and mobile. In some cases, this involves reducing team sizes as we evolve into a more efficient organization,” EA senior director of corporate communications told GameSpot today in a statement.

Reseburg declined to say which specific EA teams were impacted by today’s cuts.

“These are difficult decisions to let go of good people who have made important contributions to EA, and whenever possible we retrain or relocate employees to new roles,” he added. “Streamlining our operations will help ensure EA is bringing the best next-generation games to players around the world.”

Today’s layoffs come a month after former CEO John Riccitiello admitted that EA would miss its financial projections for the full-year ended March 31.

“This is a tough decision, but it all comes down to accountability,” Riccitiello said in his resignation letter last month. “The progress EA has made on transitioning to digital games and services is something I’m extremely proud of. However, it currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued in January, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago. EA’s shareholders and employees expect better and I am accountable for the miss.”

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Publisher Bethesda is aiming to make “considerably more noise” in 2013 than it did in 2012, the company’s vice president of PR and marketing Pete Hines has said.

Speaking on the OXM podcast, Hines teased upcoming announcements from the publisher alongside its known lineup of The Elder Scrolls Online and DLC for Dishonored.

“Obviously The Elder Scrolls Online is out and we’ve got the Dishonored DLC,” said Hines, “but we will be announcing new stuff and making some noise, and I think when we get the chance to show you guys what we’re up to, that you’ll sit up and take notice.”

Hines said Bethesda was working with “passionate teams who know what they’re doing,” but would not go into details.

As for what Bethesda might be looking to show, last week the publisher confirmed that id Software shooter Doom 4 had been rebooted but was still in development, and many gamers would almost certainly be excited to hear about a follow-up to 2011′s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Dr. Greg Zeschuk, co-founder of Mass Effect developer BioWare, has spoken about the upcoming next-generation of video game consoles, saying that he doesn’t “think they’re going to be that big a deal.”

“We are in a kind of sick market for old-school gaming,” opened Zeschuk in an interview with GamesIndustry International.

“Everyone’s kind of holding out hope for the new consoles, but I honestly don’t think they’re going to be that big a deal. I worry a lot that unless Microsoft or Sony pull something magically out of a hat, it’s pretty much the same old, same old repackaged and I don’t think they’re going to change the dynamic of the retail market.”

“I don’t see how they can,” added Zeschuk, “the market is what it is.”

Sony announced the PlayStation 4 in February ahead of a launch later in 2013. Microsoft has yet to unveil the successor to the Xbox 360, although the latest rumours suggest the company is leaning toward a May unveiling.

Despite his gloomy forecast, Zeshuck said that successes were possible in the industry, pointing to Activision Blizzard as an example of a large publisher currently succeeding in AAA development. “Activision and Blizzard have been doing really well, and they’ve been very disciplined and focused,” he said.

“But how long can they continue?” said Zeshuck. “They’ve been relying on a smaller number of titles, but no title works forever, and obviously they will be working hard to replace the games they’re working on. So they’re probably one of the shining examples of company that’s done well by really doubling down on a very narrow amount of things, and trying some different stuff – I’m actually really impressed with Skylanders.”

Speaking earlier in the interview, Zeshuck also dismissed the idea that BioWare had to conform to the whims of EA. “The best analogy I use, in a positive way, is EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself. It was really interesting because we really made all the choices we wanted to make ourselves; these are all things we wanted to try. And that’s something to remember – while we were independent we didn’t have quite the resources we had as part of EA, and then we got to EA and it was like ‘wow we can do all this stuff.’ We had to be really thoughtful about what we wanted to focus on.”

Zeschuk, and fellow BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka, retired from the studio and the games industry in September 2012. When asked if he would ever return to the games industry, Zeschuk said that he doesn’t see himself creating a new development studio.

“I think part of it, too, is that I’m not spending as much time playing games as I used to. I used to play them all time, I used to have my finger on the pulse, and absolutely I’m less on the pulse than I was. I still play some big releases, and I’m going to grab BioShock Infinite, but I don’t play the way I used to play.”

Zeshuck’s comments were made as part of a larger discussion about whether Star Wars: The Old Republic had a part to play in the recent resignation of former EA CEO John Riccitiello. “I can’t really speak to why John’s not there anymore,” said Zeshuck, “but [The Old Republic] was one of many [EA] games released, and we’re in a context where just a few days later it was Yoichi Wada who was booted out from Square Enix.”

Greg Zeshuck is currently working on passion project The Beer Diaries, a site dedicated to craft beers.

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