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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

$A blue-faced man with a golden, fractured globe of sorts orbiting their head. The man is David Bowie, in Omikron: The Nomad Soul.$

Supporters | Five of the Best: Reincarnations

Five of the Best: Journeys

Supporters | Five of the Best: Journeys

A trio of characters in space suits are poised in a hallway as if action is close at hand. The character at the back pilots - or wears - a kind of mech suit.

"They can be pretty thirsty" - Mass Effect-like RPG Exodus has release date pushed back as studio talks companions, romances, and more

A screenshot of robo companion EDI from the Mass Effect series. She is a silver-skinned cyborg with neat bobbed hair and an orange eye-width visor.

Supporters | Five of the Best: Robots

Concept art for Humanoid Origin's untitled sci-fi game showing a solo traveller roaming a desolate alien landscape, jagged mountains in the distance and a vast spherical structure looming to their right.

Mass Effect director Casey Hudson's "AAA" sci-fi game cancelled, studio closing

An image of Mass Effect-inspired armour in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch slips in some Mass Effect armour as an N7 Day treat

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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.

Feature | What we've been playing - "I've been intrigued by horrible images of live-action sequences for weeks"

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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.

Now Playing | Silver Pines is a great survival horror throwback with an unexpected Metroidvania twist, but it makes me glad the genre's moved on

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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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