A little bit of gossip courtesy of IGN regarding LucasArts' most recent non-Star Wars release Mercenaries
The game you know and love called Mercenaries was not always a LucasArts game. It was once something quite different... First, Mercenaries was at one time an EA game. And second, it was, at one time, going to be the next iteration in the publisher's long-running, but recently absent, Strike series.For the rest of the inside info on the Pandemic publisher flip-flop check the IGN: Off the Record page.
Source: IGN