EA Is Shutting Down BioWare And Cutting Around 400 Jobs
Skate studio Full Circle will be be reduced too.
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Changes were always going to be in store for Electronic Arts after the company went private and its new owners saddled it with $20 billion of debt. EA announced some alterations to the business on Wednesday, which include layoffs and the shut down of Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare.
The studio had struggled in recent years after Anthem (which shut down earlier this year) and Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed to meet sales expectations. EA, which bought BioWare in 2007, said a small team was in the early stages of work on the next Mass Effect game. However, it decided to cancel that project and close BioWare entirely, along with its office in Edmonton, Alberta.
"BioWare is a legendary studio that helped define the role-playing genre, and we do not take this decision lightly," ...
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