EA Phenomic was a real-time strategy video game developer, headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, and founded as Phenomic Game Development in 1997 by Volker Wertich, who had previously worked for Blue Byte and developed The Settlers and The Settlers III. The studio was acquired by Electronic Arts on 23 August 2006 and renamed as EA Phenomic. Electronic Arts announced that EA Phenomic would concentrate on developing real-time strategy video games. In July 2013, EA closed the studio and laid off the 60 employees.