Yet another game development studio has closed, and this time it’s the legendary team at BioWare who’ve been given their walking papers as EA continues to lay off staff. As, unfortunately, expected following the buyout of EA by a group of investors company-wide layoffs have been taking place. This, sadly, is common practice where large amounts of debt are incurred during a buyout and various parties seek the quickest route to clean up the books. While many a person can easily state that the more recent version of BioWare didn’t resemble that of teams from past years, it’s still a tragedy to see a studio that’s been around for more than 30 years fall by the wayside. News of the closure was posted on BioWare’s social media page.
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BioWare had been working on another Mass Effect game, which was said to be a return to its roots of the original trilogy following the controversial last game, Mass Effect: Andromeda, but that project is now cancelled. EA’s latest round of layoffs, per Variety, is reportedly to be around 400, or 3% of its workforce, but one has to wonder how many more jobs may be on the chopping block. It was already rumored back in August that the publisher might be forced to enact the “restructuring” strategy just to cover the interest payments needed for its $55 billion deal and its doubtfull this 3% staff reduction would be enough to cover that. “Over the past several months, we’ve taken a hard look at our business, how we operate, and what it will take to lead in this next era of interactive entertainment,” said EA execs David Tinson and Cam Weber.
However, in the interim, other studios under EA’s umbrella continue to work on other projects. Motive is still moving forward with its Iron Man title, and there are new rumors that Respawn and DICE are trying to get Star Wars: Battlefront 3 off the ground. Motive also recently collaborated with Battlefield Studios for a Dead Space crossover with Battlefield 6 and the next Star Wars Jedi game remains in development.
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