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Ex-BioWare veteran says EA's $55 billion buyout is "likely going to mean layoffs and studio closures and a dramatic reduction in people" thanks to that looming $20 billion of debt

"There is hope to be had here, but it's going to definitely be painful before that hope is going to come to fruition"

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BioWare's just waiting for the axe to fall after EA's $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff

"Kind of feels like a matter of time."

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Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

Who knows, maybe the Crown Prince is a big Femshep fan.

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EA goes $20 billion in debt as part of its $55 billion buyout, and the BioWare fans who've already waited 8 years for Mass Effect 5 are terrified of how the company might cut costs

"It's over, Commander"

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Can you name every BioWare game in just 2 minutes? Find out with the latest PC Gamer quiz!

From legendary RPGs to at least three things you've completely forgotten existed.

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EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia

The deal could go through as early as next week.

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Electronic Arts reportedly close to going private in a $50 billion deal — backers include Saudi Arabian PIF

A new report claims that Battlefield publisher Electronic Arts is going private, with a $50 billion deal from private equity and the Saudi Arabian PIF.

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25 Years Ago, 'Baldur’s Gate 2' Changed Games Forever

One of BioWare's most beloved and influential RPGs would define the developer and the genre for decades to come.

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Baldur's Gate 2 has great dungeons and epic quests, but my real love is for my fake friends: BioWare's first truly great companions

Except for that loser, Anomen.

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BioWare never stopped making Baldur's Gate 2

BG2 was when BioWare truly understood how nuts we all were for companions.

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25 years ago today, Baldur's Gate 2 set RPGs on the path to becoming the industry-defining genre they are today: 'We were putting all the fantasies that we had into the game'

The game's original developers let us in on the story of its ambitious and turbulent journey to release.

PC Gamer

Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

The baton isn't being passed as much as looted off a collapsed old hero.

PC Gamer

BioWare realized late in Anthem's development that "this game was coming in on fire" after EA told the devs "we were targeting a game in the 70s" on Metacritic

Ex BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah spills the beans on the studio's expectations heading into launch

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Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling spreads" across all players when they split up

Mark Darrah continues his chapters-long autopsy of Anthem

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"Bankrupt EA" was on the list of fears at BioWare as it weighed up Mass Effect servers, says former exec: "There's a point at which you are optimizing for an unlikely or virtually unfathomable situation”

That doesn't sound good

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Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare's doomed live action shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: 'It's Anthem's worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren't adequately taken into account'

Flying's only so fun when it makes everything else a bit of a mess.

GamesRadar

Former BioWare producer says a lot of Anthem's problems "come from a misunderstanding about multiplayer games," which the Mass Effect leadership team weren't equipped to deal with

Sounds like there were plenty of issues

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BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add "really crazy things" without the broken part

"innovation does have consequence"

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I'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play

Dragon Age: The Last Court featured some of the series' very best writing. Or so I'm led to believe.

I played The Outer Worlds 2 and it's made me fall in love with my Xbox again

Having played an hour or so of The Outer Worlds 2, it's looking like Obsidian has done it again

PC Gamer

'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019⁠—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard

It's unclear if Darrah is saying BioWare would have made project Joplin instead of Anthem, or that Anthem would have come later.

PC Gamer

Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't allowed to 'violate physics' yet

At least Dragon Age didn't have THAC0.

PC Gamer

The Mass Effect vibes are overwhelming in the latest showcase for Owlcat's The Expanse game—and yes, it has a loyalty system

And I am 100% on board.

GamesRadar

As Anthem faces shutdown amid Stop Killing Games movement, producer says maybe we want to "sacrifice some things in order to get it so that games don't just vanish one day"

"I do believe in game preservation, and we're losing a lot of stuff right now"

PC Gamer

'I always knew it was going to go away eventually:' Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever

Darrah says that if we want to Stop Killing Games, there will be some tradeoffs—but maybe they’re worth it.

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