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'What we were cooking was really cool': An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5's story

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'What we were cooking was really cool': An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5's story

Mass Effect 5 is officially cancelled and EA's shutting BioWare down, putting an end to decades of some of the best RPGs in gaming—and while I don't have too much positive to say about BioWare's later run (Veilguard was a decent action RPG with a story I couldn't stand), much of that has to do with EA's management of it.

Regardless of my nervousness towards ME5, I think it's a shame that I never got to find out whether it'd fix my issues with the Veilguard's storytelling or not. Especially since it's just been revealed that an award-winning science fiction author was on board.

Derek Künsken is a science fiction author who has won an Asimov Reader's Award (from the Asimov Science Fiction magazine) in 2012 for The Way of the Needle. More recently in 2021, he also snagged an Aurora Award (from the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association) for Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County. He's often a finalist in these categories, too.

Künsken wrote on X: "I have a weird announcement. On and off for the last five years, as a contract writer, and as a senior writer on staff, I've been hoping to be allowed to say where I worked. Today I finally got the green light: I've been working on the next Mass Effect.

"Unfortunately, the light turned green because BioWare is being shuttered. Over the coming weeks, I'll get more clarity on what I can say about what I did and saw and learned.


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