BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has spoken out about the closure of BioWare last week, which saw 50 jobs lost as part of 400 cuts across the company, along with the cancellation of Mass Effect 5, which we've now come to learn (via a leaked internal trailer) was called Mass Effect: Universe.

Speaking to 80 Level, Zeschuk lamented the end of the studio but said he went through his own emotional goodbye to the studio after he and fellow co-founder Ray Muzyka departed it on their own terms back in 2012, several months after the launch of Mass Effect 3. “I've kind of gone through all the emotions like long, long ago,” he said. “You have to break from it and kind of go, ‘OK, I've had my emotional moment.’” He continued: “I'm just at a point in my life where I've got my own other business,” he said. “My [beer] brewing business is going really well. I've got a whole other thing I'm doing, and I'm not sentimental or nostalgic. I'm kind of, like, that chapter's closed.”

That said, he certainly had opinions regarding the closure of the great RPG studio he helped build. “I’m not saying it doesn’t hurt and doesn’t suck," he said. "And I think it’s kind of sad. It’s actually, in some ways, saddest for the city of Edmonton, where we’re from, because we were kind of this beacon of hope and excitement and possibility.

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