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Someone Already Brought Anthem Back To Life And Has It Running On A Private Server
20.1.2026
BioWare’s loot shooter was shut down earlier this month
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Ex-BioWare Dev Disputes The Idea That It Shouldn’t Have Made Anthem
20.1.2026
Mark Darrah says the ill-fated looter shooter wasn’t all EA’s fault
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What Even Is A Video Game Backlog In 2026?
15.1.2026
Some games won't end while others end forever, which makes crossing stuff off a backlog these days tricky
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Ex-BioWare Dev Explains How Anthem Could Live On As A Single-Player Game
14.1.2026
Mark Darrah has released a lengthy postmortem on the loot shooter that’s worth watching
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EA Kills Anthem: A BioWare Fan’s Five Stages Of Grief
13.1.2026
After a canceled revamp and a server shutdown, BioWare fans mourn the loot shooter’s potential
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Some Anthem Players Say EA Is Already Blocking Them From Playing The Game A Week Before It Shuts Down
5.1.2026
BioWare and EA had previously said the game would be accessible to those who owned it until it shuts down on January 12
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Ex-BioWare Producer Talks About Why Anthem Failed
6.8.2025
The loot shooter was forever haunted by an early live-service pitch meeting
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Anthem Was A Mistake, But It Didn't Deserve To Die Like This
11.7.2025
Last week, BioWare announced that Anthem, the studio’s ill-advised loot shooter from 2019, would finally be sunset on January 12, 2026. This wasn’t a surprise for anyone who had been paying attention, but for those who weren’t, it was a shock that the game hadn’t already been shut down years ago....
Nešťastné sci-fi Anthem v lednu definitivně skončí, nepůjde hrát ani offline
4.7.2025
Velkolepé sci-fi Anthem od zkušeného studia BioWare nenaplnilo očekávání hráčů ani vydavatele. Ačkoliv další vývoj byl ukončen už před lety, hru šlo alespoň hrát. Ale i to se za půl roku změní
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Cool Games We’re Declaring Independence With
3.7.2025
It’s real tough to be proud of one’s American heritage at this moment. But that’s not what we’re here for. Independence is ours to define and right now, as you may have heard, this very site is celebrating a kind of independence day of its own. More on that later, I’m sure. Read more
BioWare's Maligned Loot Shooter Anthem Will Go Offline Forever Next Year
3.7.2025
BioWare’s doomed looter shooter may have had some neat aesthetics and was a competent-enough action RPG when it wanted to be, but as we all know well by now, it was a complete disaster for the devs and publisher EA. While a planned reboot of the game was canned and everyone who’s played the game...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Ending Feels Like A Mass Effect Mission And Now We Know Why
11.6.2025
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s fraught development process is now well known, with publisher Electronic Arts yanking developer BioWare back and forth between its trademark story-driven RPG structures and a live-service multiplayer game nobody asked for. Thanks to a new report from Bloomberg, we have...
Ex-BioWare Lead Says The Dragon Age Team Didn't Feel Supported During Veilguard Development
7.5.2025
It’s no secret that the game that would become Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a troubled development. However, every time a new story comes out about how studio in-fighting and corporate favoritism affected the project, it feels like more of a miracle that the fantasy RPG got out the door looking...
The Mass Effect And Dragon Age Teams ‘Didn’t Get Along,’ According To Ex-BioWare Dev
14.4.2025
David Gaider, the co-founder of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical developer Summerfall Studios, has opened up a bit more about his time at BioWare, where he served as the original lead writer on the Dragon Age series. Taking to social media, he chose to explain more about his decision to leave...
Stand Back 'Peaches,' Jack Black Has A New Rock Anthem For A Minecraft Movie
20.3.2025
It would frankly be silly at this point not to get Jack Black to release his vocal chords if he’s starring in a movie. Following the viral success of ‘Peaches,’ Black’s gloriously silly ditty sung as Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it looks like A Minecraft Movie is trying to capture some...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Free For PlayStation Plus Just Months After Launch
26.2.2025
After it endured a decade of development hell and heaps of culture war bullshit, it’s a shame more people haven’t played Dragon Age: The Veilguard. (That’s not to even mention the restructuring at BioWare that followed in the wake of the game’s release.) Publisher EA says about 1.5 million people...
EA Thinks Dragon Age: The Veilguard Would Have Done Better If It Were Live Service
5.2.2025
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson recently spoke on an earnings call about the underperformance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which reportedly reached 1.5 million players. This was apparently around half of what EA was projecting, but given the game was in development hell for a decade and was...
'Razzlekhan' Drops Video As Rapper Prepares for Prison in Bitfinex Hack
10.1.2025
The self-described "misfits anthem" emerges as the 18-month sentence nears for her role in laundering the crypto horde that now would be worth $11 billion
Next Game From Mass Effect Director Cancelled As Studio Shuts Down
25.11.2024
In 2021, former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson announced a new studio called Humanoid Origin. It was working on a sci-fi blockbuster and hiring for an ambitious future. On Monday, however, the studio announced it was shutting down just a few years later, having failed to acquire the funding...
Kicking Enemies Is So Much Fun In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
18.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a big, epic RPG about the destruction of the world and dealing with your past. It’s a game featuring a large cast of flawed people trying to come together to stop someone who thinks they are doing the right thing, but which will kill many. But who cares about all that?...