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EA Shuts Down BioWare and Cancels Its 50-Person Mass Effect Project, as 350 More Layoffs Follow the $55 Billion Buyout

A collage featuring characters from several Bioware video games, including a soldier in N7 armor from Mass Effect, a warrior casting a spell in Dragon Age, an armored exosuit from Anthem, and a female hero wielding a gun in a futuristic battle setting.

The day millions of RPG fans dreaded has arrived: Canadian developer BioWare is being shut down by Electronic Arts, as first reported by Bloomberg, and the studio’s only in-development project, a new Mass Effect game, has been canceled. It was being developed by a skeleton crew of 50 people, following earlier layoffs that had already fueled skepticism about the game’s status. Electronic Arts is also laying off another 350 staff members across various studios, by the way, which analysts had assumed would happen following the $55 billion buyout that left the publisher with around $18 billion in debt. The shadow […]

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