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Updated 21/10/2026, 19:01:30 UTC

BioWare is drawing attention across 4 news outlets right now. The reports below are the current coverage, newest first.

The coverage

EntertainmentPC Gamer20m ago

With BioWare dead, EA lays out its 'next chapter,' and it's pretty much as predicted: Guns and football are fine, and everything else is under the microscope

The changes predicted when Saudi Arabia bought Electronic Arts are coming true.

EntertainmentEurogamer1h ago2 outlets

BioWare is closing down and Mass Effect 5 is cancelled, months after Saudi Arabia's $55bn EA buyout

BioWare, the legendary studio behind RPGs like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, is shutting down, the company confirmed in a statement. Alongside the closure, Electronic Arts has chosen not to continue development on the next Mass Effect game that was in the works, according to an announcement sent […]

EntertainmentKotaku1h ago

The Internet Reacts To The End Of BioWare

Electronic Arts finally succeeded in slowly killing the beloved RPG studio

TechnologyThe Verge2h ago4 outlets

EA is shutting down BioWare

Publisher Electronic Arts is planning to shut down legendary RPG studio BioWare, laying off about 50 employees at the studio alongside 350 more elsewhere. In a new Bloomberg report , a person familiar with the matter said a total of 3% of EA's overall company has been affected by this latest round of layoffs. According to a staff letter sent out on Wednesday that Bloomberg viewed, EA chief operating officer David Tinson and chief studios officer Cam Weber explained that the company took a "hard look" at its business over the last several months. This resulted in some projects getting canceled, including the next Mass Effect game-- which was in early development at BioWare --as well as a planned game in The Sims franchise codenamed Project Lotus. Instead, the resources allocated to that title will be diverted to something else currently codenamed Project Evergreen. Many of EA's currently

EntertainmentKotaku2h ago

EA To Shut Down BioWare And Cancel The Next Mass Effect Game

400 people will lose their job in the resulting layoffs

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