Rumours are bounding around the planet today that MMO studio Mythic has been hit by EA’s cost-cutting measures. At least 20 people are said to have been axed at the Virginia developer of Warhammer Online in various departments including Q&A,customer support and more. Additionally, it looks like the Vancouver studio and Pandemic in Australia might take serious hits.When asked for comments on this matter EA grunted like an ogre and used the well known 'no statements will be added to previous ones' meaning that they already send out a press release about them letting go 10% of their staff and that they don't plan to comments on rumours or which 10% of the employees will get the boot. As with Pandemic we will just have to wait and see if the rumours are true.

Black Box Studio is closed, maybe 1,000 people will lose their jobs. What more is to come out of EA in the wake of cost-cutting? Stay with GDN as we get word in from EA about the cuts, the reasons and perhaps some real numbers. Joystiq is reporting that Warhammer Online developer Mythic Entertainment is the next victim in line to get some serious loving from the Electronic Arts axe. For now no development staff is getting the boot but customer support and QA were hit hard. All the play testers got to go home early too.