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BioWare's doctor-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk.

EA's sale to Saudi-led consortium was "final nail in the coffin" for BioWare, says studio co-founder

A helmeted character - presumably Shepard - standing side on to the camera, with a planet as a backdrop, and light coming from the horizon. Half it is paragon blue, the other half renegade red.

Opinion | Farewell BioWare, you inspired so many of us, and you deserved so much better than this

BioWare is closing down and Mass Effect 5 is cancelled, months after Saudi Arabia's $55bn EA buyout

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A mech-suited character stares, from very close up, at the camera, while behind them, two flying mech-suited characters fade into black and white. It's Anthem, and it's an image that evokes fading away.

Just days after EA killed Anthem for good, one player has managed to breathe life into it, pointing to a possible future preservation effort

A futuristic fully armoured soldier-like character with a cape, with a badge overlaid on top of them saying "Good Old Game preserved by GOG". In the background, a catalogue of game titles can just bee seen.

Feature | "What is a fair end-of-life cycle for a game?" As Anthem servers are switched off, GOG weighs the "complicated riddle" of multiplayer game preservation

An Anthem screenshot showing a slim character with a shaved head standing close to the camera with their hands on their hips, and another female character with them, also with hands on hips, staring at the camera - the player - too. They are in some kind of stone flag-floored bunker.

Could Anthem live on? Tech allowing us to host our own servers existed, former executive producer says - it would just need to be "salvaged and recovered"

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A hooded feminine character with two conjoined and mirrored faces rushes out of a doorway towards the camera. It's a live-action image from horror game Tenebris Somnia.

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A blue-skinned feminine character and a fully-masked character stand at a bar. It's not a joke. It's a screenshot from a leaked trailer for Mass Effect Universe.

EA reportedly closed BioWare because it was forced to choose between Mass Effect 5 and Star Wars Battlefront 3

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Silver Pines artwork showing the face of private investigator protagonist Red Walker bleeding into an image of missing musician Eddie Velvet, the pair set against a moody backdrop of locations from around the titular town.

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Crimson Desert Enhanced Edition gets a surprise demo on PlayStation and Xbox, lets you play for 5 hours and carry over your save data

Crimson Desert Enhanced Edition gets a surprise demo on PlayStation and Xbox, lets you play for 5 hours and carry over your save data

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Multiple sports cars from Forza Motorsport 2023 arranged on a track.

Forza director, who'd been with Turn 10 for 27 years leaves Microsoft, following studios merger with Playground Games

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Mina the Hollower's mouse protagonist overlaid on a blue background

GOTY hopeful Mina the Hollower bought the studio financial stability "for now," while the Shovel Knight devs work on a new 3D game

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Dark Souls 3 cover art showing a knight with smouldering red armour posing in front of a sickly yellow sky, the imposing hulk of Castle Lothric behind them.

Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3's online servers are temporarily going dark, FromSoftware announces

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A fiery, cracked portal frames a serene landscape with a city in the distance.

A former volunteer is threatening legal action against fan-made game project Skyblivion

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