In November 2005, it was announced that BioWare and Pandemic Studios ( itself founded by former Activision employees ) would be joining forces, with private equity fund Elevation Partners investing in the partnership.

A week later they then purchased VG Holding Corp, the parent company of BioWare and Pandemic Studios.

These layoffs also led to the complete shutdown of Pandemic Studios.

* Pandemic Studios in Los Angeles, California and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, founded in 1998, acquired October 2007 from Elevation Partners, closed November 17, 2009.

* Battlezone II: Combat Commander, another sequel to Battlezone released by Pandemic Studios in 1999.

It was developed by the Institute for Creative Technologies in association with Pandemic Studios and published by THQ.

Having established a US Army University Affiliated Research Center ( the Institute for Creative Technologies – ICT ) in 1999 for the purpose of advancing virtual simulation technology, work began in May 2000 on a project entitled C4 under ICT Creative Director James Korris with industry partners Sony Imageworks and their team-mate, Pandemic Studios, represented by co-founders Josh Resnick and Andrew Goldman.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts.

Battlezone II: Combat Commander, often abbreviated to BZII or BZ2, is a 1999 computer game released by Pandemic Studios as a sequel to Activision's 1998 Battlezone.

Pandemic Studios continued and expanded the concept of a RTS and FPS hybrid where the player drives the vehicle in the game, but using a mixture of the reticle and the space bar, selects units and buildings to build and orders units around the battle field.

* Star Wars: Battlefront II, a video game developed by Pandemic Studios

Pandemic Studios was founded as an independent developer in 1998, it became an Electronic Arts-owned developer from 2007 to 2009, when it was officially closed.

On October 11, 2007, it was announced that VG Holding Corp., the owners of BioWare and Pandemic Studios, would be acquired by Electronic Arts as of January 2008, subject to FTC approval.

On November 17, 2009, EA officially confirmed Pandemic Studios ' closure, laying off 228 employees.

Pandemic Studios developed the first two main titles of the successful Star Wars: Battlefront series namely Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II as well as Full Spectrum Warrior and the Mercenaries series.

Soon after the studio's closure it was revealed that Project Y was Mercs Inc, a new title in the Mercenaries series which is being developed by Pandemic Studios at EALA, the Project Y listing on the official site disappeared when the game was announced.

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is a third-person shooter video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published on January 11, 2005 by LucasArts for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Following Pandemic Studios ' purchase in November 2009, Electronic Arts announced EA Los Angeles would be developing a second sequel, tentatively titled Mercs Inc.

Davis said the game is " a much better game overall " than Full Spectrum Warrior, a game that Pandemic Studios previously developed.

Star Wars: Battlefront II is a first / third-person shooter video game developed by Pandemic Studios, and published by LucasArts.

Developer Pandemic Studios used their in-house engine, known as Zero to develop Battlefront II.

is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ.

The game was conceived of by Matt Harding while he was working at Pandemic Studios following Microsoft's rejection of a more family-friendly game concept.

Jeffery's main accomplishment during his tenure at LucasArts was forging new relations with external developers to fully develop the Star Wars gaming IP, such as Pandemic Studios, Planet Moon Studios, The Collective, Raven Software and BioWare.

" EA has announced that it is turning its attention to creating new game IPs in order to stem this trend, with recently acquired and critically acclaimed studios BioWare and Pandemic would be contributing to this process.

Kolata's book Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It was chosen by the Washington State University Common Reading Program in its inaugural year, 2007-2008.

While genetic analysis of the H5N1 virus shows that influenza pandemics from its genetic offspring can easily be far more lethal than the Spanish flu pandemic, planning for a future influenza pandemic is based on what can be done and there is no higher Pandemic Severity Index level than a Category 5 pandemic which, roughly speaking, is any pandemic as bad as the Spanish flu or worse ; and for which all intervention measures are to be used.

The company's president was Josh Resnick and its CEO was Andrew Goldman — both formerly worked at Activision, and Pandemic was founded with an equity investment by Activision in 1998.

The Third Pandemic hit China in the 1890s and devastated India, but was confined to limited outbreaks in the west.

The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

The next mission for the team was to locate a man called Pandemic and defeat him.

Biovar Mediaevalis was formerly thought to correspond to the Black Death, while Biovar Orientalis was thought to correspond to the Third Pandemic and the majority of modern outbreaks of plague.

The NDMS was transferred from the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Health and Human Services, under the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, signed by President George W. Bush, on 18 December 2006.

Originally born in North Carolina as Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr., he was ten months old when his mother, Ada Mae ( née Kirby ), died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

Kennedy directed and co-produced the Emmy Award-nominated series Pandemic: Facing AIDS ( 2003 ), which premièred at the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on July 8, 2002 ; it was later broadcast as a five-part series on HBO in June 2003.

Battlezone II was not very popular, likely due to Pandemic Studio's attempts to blend two groups together ; both styles of player had trouble adapting to the style they were unused to.

Battlezone II was one of the first few games to begin supporting modifications and was greatly expanded on the release of the unofficial 1. 3 patch by Nathan Mates and Ken Miller, two employees of Pandemic Studio who had continued developing the game on their own time.

In November 2005, it was announced that Pandemic and BioWare would be joining forces, with private equity fund Elevation Partners investing in the partnership.

EA absorbed 35 Pandemic employees to support The Saboteur and an unannounced project which was later revealed to be Mercs Inc, a sequel to the Mercenaries series.

* Pandemic Severity Index, by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

* Pandemic — a highly lethal disease, often one created by man, threatens or wipes out most of humanity in a massive plague.

* In the South Park episode " Pandemic 2: The Startling ", it can be heard being played by the Peruvian flute players near the end of the episode when Craig is narrating.

After Rogue was infected with a virus by Pandemic, Cable took the team to his island so Rogue could be cared for.