It’s N7 day, which means BioWare briefly acknowledged that they’re making a new Mass Effect game, this time with a short, enigmatic trailer for the space game. It’s also the day a group of unionized contract workers formerly of the Dragon Age Dreadwolf team, still fighting for the severance pay BioWare has yet to provide after laying them off, demonstrated outside the company’s offices in Edmonton, Alberta.
It looks like nobody is getting what they want today, though. The Alberta Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the striking workers, declining EA’s appeal to block them from striking outside BioWare HQ. EA has apparently yet to reach an agreement with the strikers. And the Mass Effect reveal was just a masked character in a big coat.
The coat is very swanky, to be fair.
Some keen fans still managed to piece together some theories from the scant 30 seconds of footage BioWare released. One suggested this mysterious character might be the child of Shepard and Liara, though there’s not really any solid evidence for that. Others think that the futuristic style of helmet points to a post-Mass Effect Andromeda story, since that game takes place hundreds of years after the main trilogy, with its clunkier, militaristic fashion.
The helmet looks very futuristic. Perhaps 2819 CE Milky Way tech?
— Mass Effect News (@MassEffect_News) November 7, 2023
It’s been two years since BioWare first announced Mass Effect 5, two years of scant teasers, major shakeups at the studio, and little information from BioWare about the state of the game. We know Liara is there, along with a fragment of Shepard’s armor, though probably not Shepard themselves. The Geth are still a thing, and that’s about it.
With Dragon Age Dreadwolf seemingly closer to the end of production than Mass Effect 5, it may be 2024’s N7 day before we learn anything else about the series.
