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"You're going up against Destiny. You're going up against massive entities": BioWare veteran says indie devs who can't outspend AAA push "a lot of innovation"

"Video games are much more than simply AAA"

GamesRadar · Dec 29, 2025

Dragon Age and Anthem veteran argues risk-averse AAA games have become "too homogenous" and "soulless," which might lead fans to accept generative AI

Mark Darrah says people might be willing to accept AI because "a lot of media has become soulless already"

GamesRadar · Dec 29, 2025

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"

GamesRadar · Oct 22, 2025

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"

GamesRadar · Oct 1, 2025

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

GamesRadar · Sep 12, 2025

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

GamesRadar · Sep 11, 2025

"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

GamesRadar · Sep 10, 2025

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.

PC Gamer · Sep 10, 2025

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

GamesRadar · Sep 10, 2025

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"

GamesRadar · Sep 10, 2025