BioWare has shut down, and while that doesn't inherently mean we won't be seeing more Mass Effect—EA owns the rights to that IP—the next Mass Effect game's been cancelled, and I certainly wouldn't hold my breath for EA to make anything that isn't sports, Sims, or shooter related in the near future.

According to sources who spoke to IGN, however, the TV series, which has been in the works at Prime Video since 2024, will still go ahead. It'll be set after the original trilogy, so it won't be quite so awkward as seeing Commander Shepherd making winks and nods to a series of games built by a slowly-dismantled studio, but still.

There's something deeply bittersweet about a videogame series arriving after the studio responsible for its creation has gone out of business. And perhaps reflective of how EA has treated BioWare itself—grabbing a studio known for making some of the best RPGs ever—and chipping away at it. Coasting on the good will from a studio it had precious little interest in managing and rarely gave a fair shot at doing what it was actually good at.

I mean, just look at Anthem. I could point to any number of developer tell-alls that might suggest EA didn't know what to do with the studio it'd bought. Or former executive producer Mark Darrah, who said : "Someone once described to me EA as a hedge fund with a videogame hobby that it wished it didn’t spend so much money on.

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