If you were beginning to think that Pandemic Studios and EA's freedom-fighter action-adventure Saboteur has gone down the vaporware bin, then you're wrong. And aren't you glad? After a very long silence, EA has gone out with press release assets for the game today. Fact sheet and images after the jump.

Here's an interesting-but-not-confirmed update to the saga of Star Wars: Battlefront 3's development. DarkZero reports that the game is now no longer in the hands of Rebellion Developments, suggesting that the game is back in the arms of Pandemic Studios.

I'm beginning to think this game doesn't really exist.

You know he's evil because he has creepy, yellow eyes that stare at you from beneath a dark hood. That just screams Palpatine. But wait, that's not Palpatine, it's... Obi-Wan Kenobi? Looks like Free Radical was planning to put a twist on an old story (and an old Jedi) for Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Too bad they got axed before we could see more.

Electronic Arts has now released an official statement in response to the circulating rumors that  they have let go Pandemic Studios in Brisbane, Australia. While they did admit that their upcoming job cuts will affect studios, they did not divulge any more specific details about it.

As rumors would have it, Electronic Arts has shut down the Brisbane, Australia office of Pandemic Studios. Says a "reliable source", the shut down was more of a "find a new publisher" thing, rather than a "sorry, we'll have to kill you off" scenario.

Eyebrows were raised when word of Electronic Arts filing for a loan to support its campaign to acquire Take-Two Interactive broke out. However, if there's one guy who wasn't surprised, it's the good 'ol Michael Pachter who claims he knows exactly why such loan was necessary. Find what he has to say at the full article.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, originally set to release last year, was moved to 2008 under circumstances of quality and preference. Creative director Cameron Brown of Pandemic Studios reiterated in an interview that it's on track to release in August, which Brown hopes will stick, because he wants to move on to Mercenaries 3 and even release a Mercenaries 2 for the Nintendo Wii. You read that right. More at the full story.

What did he say? EA Pandemic's Josh Resnick said in an interview that they have equal love for all of consoles currently out, but they're not about to add themselves to numerous third-party developers shoveling software for the Nintendo Wii. Pandemic's head honcho also knew that the Wii is a unique platform and that developing a Pandemic-branded title best suited for Wii requires special - and serious - study. More at the full story.

Are you curious why the upcoming Nintendo Wii game Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed is set in the 1970s? THQ and Pandemic Studios are shedding light into that with their latest blog post. You can find out why they decided to give this game a funky backdrop when you read the full article up next.

Last October, Electronic Arts announced its acquisition of VG Holding Corp., the parent company of BioWare and Pandemic Studios. It's now a little less than three months later and EA has just announced that the acquisition is now complete. More in the full article.