EA Salt Lake

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EA Salt Lake is a computer game developer located in Bountiful, Utah, United States. It is owned by video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA).

EA Salt Lake was founded by the studio's president, Vance Cook^[1], as Headgate Studios in 1992. As a veteran programmer for years at Access Software, the onetime premier developer of golf simulations, Cook had the experience and knowledge of how to create a rewarding golfing experience^[2]. For it's first several years, Headgate solely developed golf games, primarily published by EA. The Headgate development team typically golfed together weekly in order to stay close to the subject matter of their games. They have recently added soccer to their weekly activities.

Headgate developed every Windows version of the EA Sports Tiger Woods golf franchise from 2001 to 2006. Headgate's golf games consistently got high praise from industry reviewers and have won numerous industry awards^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9].

On 1 Dec 2006, Headgate Studios was bought by the longtime publisher of most of their titles, Electronic Arts. Headgate was redubbed EA Salt Lake. The studios' focus will be redirected to developing games for Nintendo's new console, the Wii.^[10]