User blog comment:Awyman13/DICE LA To Develop Last Two Expansions/@comment-6696054-20140318225658/@comment-4563909-20140318230527

It's not a "different branch", it's a subsidiary of the main DICE (in Stockholm). Some devs from now-defunct Danger Close were moved there when DICE Los Angeles was formed. They are in close contact with their masters at Stockholm, and even have some key developers who were flown to LA to work there.