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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....
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...
These Two Cool Mass Effect Mods Look Like The Perfect Way To Revisit A Classic Trilogy
27.6.2025
If you’re like me and haven’t played the original Mass Effect trilogy in some time, then boy do I have some good news for you if you have the game on PC or are thinking of grabbing a copy on Steam. A pair of wildly impressive mods for the Legendary Edition remaster of everyone’s favorite Xbox...
After What EA Did To BioWare, The Battlefield X Mass Effect Crossover Gives Me The Ick
17.6.2025
Electronic Arts and its stable of studios are no strangers to crossovers, especially ones that see its own properties making the leap to other EA games. Apex Legends has Plants vs. Zombies cosmetics, Dragon Age has a set of Dead Space armor, and The Sims got more crossovers than I can rattle off...
This Unused Art Is The Coolest Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Party Has Ever Looked
13.6.2025
When a game is in the works as long as Dragon Age: The Veilguard was, it’s bound to have a ton of unused assets and concept art. Developers like BioWare go through so many artistic iterations of a game within normal development cycles, so you can imagine how many more a game like The Veilguard...
Every New Detail About Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Development Shows Why It's A Defining Game For BioWare
12.6.2025
With every new report about Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s troubled development, it feels like a miracle that the game came out at all. A new story from Bloomberg outlines how the Dragon Age team was jerked around by publisher Electronic Arts and forced to make pivots with limited resources and time...
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...
Neverwinter Nights 2, One Of The Best RPGs Ever, Is Getting Remastered
9.6.2025
If there’s one thing we’re all guilty of, including you, it’s forgetting to mention Neverwinter Nights 2 in the same breath as Baldur’s Gate II, Knights of the Old Republic, and Pillars of Eternity. The Obsidian RPG is one of my favorite games ever, and yet, I’ll still forget to bring it up when...
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...
Star Wars: Jedi Studio Doesn't Mention Layoffs In Announcement About Laying Developers Off
29.4.2025
Between Apex Legends, the Star Wars: Jedi series, and other projects, Respawn Entertainment has a lot on its plate, so it’s a little shocking to hear that EA is laying off even more members of the studio this year. It raises ongoing questions about what’s going on inside the team that’s seemingly...
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...
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...
Ex-Dragon Age Producer Asks People To Stop Harassing Developers, Gets Predictable Response
21.2.2025
When you’ve been on the internet as long as I have, you get the distinct displeasure of watching cycles of toxicity repeat themselves ad nauseam, usually over things that don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. The world is on fire and rather than devoting energy to important matters, a subset...
The Internet Reacts To Shocking Marvel Rivals Layoffs
19.2.2025
On February 18, NetEase laid off Marvel Rivals development team members, including game director Thaddeus Sasser, just two months after its incredibly successful launch. The hero shooter has been such a runaway success that the news blindsided people across the video game industry. According to...
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...
BioWare Betting It All On Mass Effect 5 After Even More Layoffs
29.1.2025
What’s left of BioWare, the renowned RPG powerhouse behind beloved franchises like Dragon Age, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the original Baldur’s Gate games? It’s a hard question to answer in 2025 after multiple rounds of layoffs and restructurings as the studio pivots between...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard May Have Just Gotten Its Final Big Patch
24.1.2025
BioWare had already said that Dragon Age: The Veilguard wouldn’t be getting any major DLC or expansions after its launch in October, but now it sounds like the studio is moving on from putting out big patches for the game after less than three months. At least, that’s how its most recent patch...
13 Exciting Games Kicking Off The New Year In January
1.1.2025
Another year is in the books and that means that backlog season is officially upon us. We used to get several months for catching up on old stuff as the new year got off to a slow start, but now the season barely lasts a couple of weeks. January might be a good time to give your wallet a rest...
December's Cant-Miss Game Releases, Amazon's Free Games For Prime Members, And More Holiday Season Tips
8.12.2024
This week, holiday sales and giveaways are in full swing, and we’ve got the lowdown on all the games Amazon is giving away to Prime subscribers, the best games to pick up in PlayStation’s 30th Anniversary sale, and more.Read more