13 Facts About EA Tiburon

EA Tiburon is an Electronic Arts video game development studio located in Maitland, Florida, United States founded in 1994.

EA Tiburon has taken over the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series from EA Salt Lake as of the 2008 edition of the game.

EA Tiburon Entertainment was originally founded by John Schappert, Jason Andersen, and Steve Chiang, all of them being previous engineers for the company Visual Concepts, located in Cincinnati, Ohio.

EA Tiburon Entertainment was established in Orlando, Florida, 1994 by Schappert and Anderson, with Steve Chiang joining as a third investment.

The name of the studio, EA Tiburon, comes from the Spanish word "tiburon, " which means shark.

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EA Tiburon developed its own video game concepts and software in addition to creating games based on the ideas of Electronic Arts and other distributors.

EA initially hired EA Tiburon to produce Madden NFL '96 for the Super NES and Genesis.

EA Tiburon began producing Madden for the newer systems and were the first designers to infuse the game with a three-dimensional feel for the players and stadiums for the two-game systems until they became outdated with the introduction of Sony's PlayStation.

Some other titles that EA Tiburon made include College Football USA 97, Madden NFL 97, Soviet Strike, and Slam: Shaq vs the Legends which were released on several game consoles such as the Genesis, Super NES, Sega Saturn and PlayStation.

Since the purchase, Tiburon Entertainment was re-branded to EA Tiburon and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts.

EA Tiburon was a division of EA Sports, but with some recent reorganization of the company, there have been some changes and now is its own independent subsidiary.

Currently, EA Tiburon is still considered one of the largest video game studios in Florida and is employing over 500 people.

In late 2019, it was announced that EA Tiburon would move its headquarters from the Maitland Center to the Creative Village in Downtown Orlando.