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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.

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

Now it's really over.

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How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"

Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"

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New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect

The last Dragon Age game we're likely to see for a very long while was in trouble right from the start.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard dialogue was reportedly rewritten to be more serious after BioWare worried it would face the same backlash as Forspoken for being too snarky

Forspoken seemingly had an indirect influence on BioWare's latest RPG

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Even after EA let Dragon Age: The Veilguard out of multiplayer hell, BioWare reportedly still had to rush to target "as wide a market as possible," which feels like the opposite approach of great RPGs

EA doesn't seem to understand what makes a good RPG

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Mass Effect 5 director reacts to The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new sci-fi action RPG reminiscent of BioWare's own beloved series: "Looking pretty awesome"

Michael Gamble likes what he sees

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Mass Effect 5 director hints that the sci-fi RPG series' notorious lens flares will be back in the next game, as BioWare apparently goes head-to-head with JJ Abrams

Bring your sunglasses

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Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat

Especially spooky stories.

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Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'

Which worked out very well.

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The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce

Tabletop roleplaying drives videogame RPGs to be better.

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Ex Dragon Age writer pushes back on RPG casts who are all romanceable and instantly into you: "That limits the different types of stories you can do"

Should you be able to date everyone in RPGs? David Gaider chimes in.

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Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"

Maybe they were right, but they shouldn't have said it

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Former Dragon Age lead writer says being at BioWare was "glorious," but under EA it "surrendered more and more of its independence until we got to where we got to"

David Gaider recalls the storied RPG developer's good and bad days

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Dragon Age legend says even if he didn't leave BioWare 9 years ago, he still would have dipped over EA's live service Dragon Age push: "What a devil's contract that would have been"

David Gaider wasn't hanging around for the Thedas battlepass

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'We'll call you back': BioWare's first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to 'create the best RPG game ever'

A lack of experience can sometimes be a blessing.

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Former Dragon Age lead David Gaider would love to make an RPG at his new home, but "our last hope to keep the studio alive" comes first – and it looks like a very promising roguelike

Malys is a slick roguelike deckbuilder from folks who can't help but put a little RPG in everything

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"EA said make this a live service": Dragon Age veteran says the fourth game's multiplayer pivot was a "rationalization" to move devs onto Anthem, and "I wish that pivot had never occurred"

It was "a reason to make it make sense that we were taking everyone away from Dragon Age"

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The BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran

"EA buys studios, and then consumes them, and they start to lose their culture."

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Dragon Age veteran says his team was "jerked around" because EA didn't care about big RPGs like Mass Effect: Andromeda, just Anthem

And look how that turned out...

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EA cancels Titanfall incubation project, lays off staff at Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi developer Respawn Entertainment

EA has canceled two projects at Respawn Entertainment, laying off developers on Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi.

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Former Dragon Age writer praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as "beautiful," saying it's "kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs"

BioWare veteran David Gaider is enjoying the new turn-based RPG

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Former BioWare producer says Baldur's Gate 3's impact on game dev will be 'somewhat muted' thanks to industry convention, and I can't help think we've got it all backwards

"A perfect storm of factors, working together, to make this game work."

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BioWare veteran says the impact of Baldur's Gate 3 will be "more muted" than most realize because it was a "perfect storm" of development most other RPGs won't be "allowed" to replicate

Former BioWare executive Mark Darrah says Baldur's Gate 3 changed "the landscape of who is willing to look at an RPG," but it might not change how games are made as much as you'd expect

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One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it

Someone put me in charge of videogames. I'll sort this right out.

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