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The Mass Effect TV series will 'explore a brand-new story within the universe’s timeline,' BioWare exec says: 'It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard's story'

A year after the series was confirmed as being in development, Mike Gamble says writers have "got a lot figured out about how it fits within the Mass Effect canon."

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The Mass Effect show will "explore a brand-new story" set after the original trilogy and "won't be a retread of Commander Shepard's story," according to BioWare

The Mass Effect TV show is still happening, and it won't be a retread of the Commander Shepard story

Total Film

Mass Effect 5 remains in development amid $55 billion EA buyout, and BioWare is now "heads-down and focused exclusively on" the RPG, with "lots of romances to figure out"

And what's this Krogan teaser all about?

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"I can't describe how happy this makes us": No Man's Sky celebrates Mass Effect Day with the return of Commander Shepard's ship

Happy N7 Day

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Knights of the Old Republic's Bastila Shan actor Jennifer Hale was "gobsmacked" by the Star Wars RPG's big twist: "It completely shocked me"

BioWare's legendary action-RPG left Hale stunned

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are both "very LGBTQ+ friendly," former EA dev says, "but one handled it perfectly and one fumbled it"

"Baldur's Gate 3 just supports you"

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'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes

RPGs started coddling us too much, but it looks like they're trending in the other direction, says Brandon Adler.

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Less than 3 months after NetEase shut it down, new studio from Dragon Age and Halo devs gets resurrected

T-Minus Zero Entertainment is back in action

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Dragon Age's The Inquisitor actor knows the character is "probably not coming back," but sees a world where BioWare brings back all protagonists "Avengers Assemble-style"

Dragon Age Inquisition's star thinks there's a world where BioWare gets "wacky" with it

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Commander Shephard actor would love to return in Mass Effect 5 to play "anyone," not just FemShep – but BioWare hasn't picked up the phone

Jennifer Hale would love to come back, and so would we

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EA hits like Battlefield 4 and The Sims 4 were given time to bounce back from rough launches because they were "too big to fail," whereas with BioWare's Anthem, it wasn't "a given that it was going to be that big"

"Your choices are either to fix Battlefield 4 or shut the studio down, and through much of its recent history, EA has been very reluctant to shut down studios"

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Anthem lead says it deserved bad reviews, and Mass Effect and Dragon Age had better stories in part because you weren't playing with three "randos" who made everything "worse"

"The game doesn't really understand how to effectively tell a story"

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Saudi Arabia's acquisition of Electronic Arts faces pushback from game developers, petition calls on FTC to 'scrutinize this deal closely'

The Videogame Workers United union wants approval of the deal to be contingent upon protecting jobs and game studios.

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New sci-fi RPG from ex Mass Effect devs shares "some DNA" with BioWare's beloved series, but also Sony's Horizon and Nintendo's Metroid

Exodus borrows from the adventures of Aloy and Samus Aran

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"This is going to be horrible": BioWare's classic D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 2 looked like a "hacked-up monstrosity that was still full of bugs" as the devs crunched to get it finished in time for launch

"The crunch at the time was brutal"

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Okay, I’ll play EA’s advocate: The buyout deal can be good, actually

Privatization is always ahead of public trading.

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With Xbox hiking prices and a newly private, $20-billion-in-the-hole EA looking ready to gut Baldur's Gate series creator BioWare, Larian boss Swen Vincke points out that 'making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before'

But by god, we're gonna try.

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Bungie brings in a new Destiny 2 global franchise director as its MMO bleeds – a Dragon Age, Starfield, and Elder Scrolls veteran who only just left Mass Effect 5

Games vet Hilary Hidey joins Bungie ahead of Destiny 2: Renegades

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"EA has a huge repository of dormant IPs that are just sitting there" after $55 billion buyout, says former Dragon Age and Anthem producer, so it could make better "financial sense" to sell studios instead of shutting them down

Selling IPs could help deal with that impending $20 billion of debt

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Starfield and Deus Ex actor has done "a lot" of work with EA, but isn't sitting idly by as rumored AI-powered cost-cutting plans surface following controversial $55 billion buyout: "F*** you"

It's been claimed that investors are hoping to use AI to save money and help manage the $20 billion of debt EA is set to take on

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EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'

Also, the debt. The $20 billion debt thing.

Inverse

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Analysts say EA buyout "doesn't add up," expect the company to double down on live services and sports at expense of "new ideas and innovation" with layoffs looking inevitable

"Short term they may look to sell off non-crucial assets and smaller IP"

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Former Dragon Age director says it's "hard to imagine" BioWare pivoting from "very progressive messaging to having the reverse" following EA's $55 billion buyout, and public perception not being "apocalyptically bad" if it did

He also questions if The Sims would fit into the "messaging desires of the three groups that are involved in the acquisition"

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