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EA has rebranded EA2D as BioWare San Francisco, sending the arcade-focused studio the way of the dinosaurs (or 2D in EA games). As we know, EA2D was responsible for The Fancy Pants Adventures and Facebook's Dragon Age Legends, and had studio goals of putting the core back in gaming and making players cry.

EA2D's dissolution is part of a larger company shift that CEO John Riccitiello describes as an attempt to build its "intellectual properties/franchises into year-round business" and focus on its digital ventures with Origin. Considering EA2D was a digital-based studio, we can only imagine what more virtuality BioWare will add to it.

The Fancy Pants Adventures is probably the first game that's based -- not deliberately -- on a single movie scene. When I see Fancy Pants Man, the game's scribbled but charming protagonist, I see Tom Cruise sliding down the hall in his underwear. This entire game feels extrapolated from that iconic, underdressed celebration in the absence of authority.

We were skeptical, but we have to admit, those pants certainly are fancy. Check out the latest XBLA in Brief to see if The Fancy Pants Adventures is enough to sate your acrobatic platforming desires.

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How fancily can you run? Fancy Pants Adventures is out now.

Fancy Pants Adventures is undoubtedly one of the best titles ever conceived for a video game. But you know what looks just as good? The game itself. EA has released a new trailer that highlights the four-player mayhem in this charming platformer.

Prepare for an adventurous experience coming to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.