Westwood Studios

Westwood Studios, Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	1985
Founders	Brett Sperry Louis Castle
Defunct	March 31, 2003
Fate	Merged into EA Los Angeles
Headquarters	Las Vegas, Nevada
Key people	Brett Sperry Louis Castle Joseph D. Kucan (video game director)
Products	Eye of the Beholder series The Legend of Kyrandia series Dune series Lands of Lore series Command & Conquer series
Owner	Virgin Interactive (1992–1998) Electronic Arts (1998–2003)
Website	www.westwood.com (archived homepage on March 4, 2000)

Westwood Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into Westwood Associates and was renamed to Westwood Studios when Virgin Games (later Virgin Interactive Entertainment) bought the company in 1992. The company was bought by Electronic Arts alongside Virgin Interactive's North American operations in 1998.^[1] In January 2003, it was announced that Westwood, alongside Westwood Pacific (EA Pacific), would be merged into EA Los Angeles. The main studio location closed in March of that year.

Westwood is best known for developing video games in the real-time strategy, adventure and role-playing genres. It was listed in Guinness World Records for selling 30 million copies of Command & Conquer games worldwide.^[2]