Gordon Walton has departed Electronic Arts where he served as a vice president at BioWare Austin, reports Develop. They received a statement from EA saying "it is business as usual" at the Star Wars: The Old Republic developer. They also note a story on Inside Social Games saying Sebastien de Halleux and Sami Lababidi, two of the cofounders of Playfish, have also parted ways with EA, though both will remain as consultants. Only one of four Playfish founders, Kristian Segerstale, remains with the company since its November 2009 acquisition. In other EA-related news, VG247 reports on a talk given by John Riccitiello to a Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. The EA CEO describes missteps they made a few years back, saying: "And we dropped the ball. Our IP deteriorated, our costs went up, and we didn’t really have an answer for the rise of digital." He goes on to the present day offering his assessment of their revival: "We have the strongest intellectual property portfolio by far in the games industry today."