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Mom of heart donor offers to pay what insurance won’t to keep recipient alive

IN FOCUS: EXCLUSIVE: Heart transplant recipient Payton Herres and the donor’s mother, Mary Cutter, hear one another’s voices for the first time in an emotional interview with Rhian Lubin after a spike in the cost of anti-rejection drug through health insurance makes it unaffordable

The Independent UK

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

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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An organ donor gave her his heart. But now she can’t afford the life-saving medicines to keep it beating

IN FOCUS: Exclusive: A heart transplant recipient tells Rhian Lubin how she feels a health insurance company is ‘gambling’ with the gift of life from her donor: ‘If they let me go into rejection, they’re not just risking my life — they’re letting his gift go to waste.’

The Independent UK

"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

GamesRadar

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

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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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

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

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

5 awesome home theater installations you won't believe

If you've considered having a home theater professionally installed, or even thought of doing it yourself, you'll find inspiration in these installations.

TechRadar

Close enough, welcome back Anthem – I'm loving that Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion has shifted gears to smaller, nimbler mech suit action

Now Playing | Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion smartly trades in huge mech face-offs for faster paced clashes in a bigger world

GamesRadar

Shoei's Neotec 3 Motorcycle Helmet Gets New Colors and Graphics, But Only in Europe

Europe gets the new Neotec 3 designs first, and U.S. riders are left waiting…or working the black-market angle.

RideApart

'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.

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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.

PC Gamer

'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017

Oof.

GamesRadar

Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"

It all makes sense now

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Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'

Never write a check you can't cash.

GamesRadar

"It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"

Mark Darrah opens up about why Anthem failed in a new YouTube video

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This dream home cinema proves clever acoustic control can look great, too

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“$199 for a synth that retreads the well-worn VA path is a big ask”: Universal Audio Anthem review

This new softsynth makes UA's Spark subscription even more tempting, but is it worth its high asking price as a standalone purchase?

Windows Central

EA is killing a game I didn't even know was alive

EA has announced that its ambitious live-service extraction shooter, Anthem, will sunset servers on January 12, 2026. The game will be unplayable, as it was designed to be an online-only experience.

Windows Central

The big "Stop Killing Games" petition just hit 1 million signatures — in partial thanks to one dev who tried to kill it

#StopKillingGames completed its goal despite one prominent developer opposing the movement.

PC Gamer

Surprise! The Anthem servers are still running—but they won't be after January 12

Now it's really over.

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