Yesterday it became known that Gary McKay became the new general manager of BioWare. He started his career at Electronic Arts and was responsible for the development of the FIFA series for some time. Despite a lot of experience in the industry and promises to create great story RPGs, some fans were dissatisfied with the new leader.Gary McKay (source: BioWare)

The restart of the multiplayer shooter Anthem will not take place. Electronic Arts has abandoned the project that BioWare studio has been working on since 2019. Now the developers will focus on the new Dragon Age and Mass Effect, as well as updates for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

BioWare is losing frames. General Manager Casey Hudson and Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah are leaving the company.

Another game studio has appeared in Canada. Among its founders is Mike Laidlaw, who at one time served as creative director of the Dragon Age franchise (Bioware). He was also joined by three people from Ubisoft.

The game studio created by Wizards of the Coast has a name and a purpose. The Archetype Entertainment team is working on an RPG in a sci-fi setting.

The screenwriter of Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age, David Gaider, became the co-founder of Summerfall Studio. It is located in Australia and is almost ready to present the first project.

Last week, two leading producers — old-timers of the studio – left BioWare at once. One of them was working on Anthem, the other was working on the future Dragon Age 4.

The troubles with Anthem don’t end there. While BioWare is trying to fix the systems in the game, user interest in it is steadily declining. Because of this, Anthem started having problems with the selection of teams to play together.

Several new vacancies for BioWare have appeared on the Electronic Arts website. The studio needs four system designers who will debug Anthem.

BioWare CEO Casey Hudson has called the studio staff for a general meeting at which he will share his thoughts on the Kotaku investigation. Recall that on April 2, the publication published a material by Jason Schreier, dedicated to the development of Anthem. BioWare’s response to this material caused a strong reaction on the web.

The investigation of Jason Schreier about the development of Anthem has not gone unanswered by BioWare. He appeared in the studio blog 16 minutes after the publication of the material on Kotaku. BioWare’s response does not contain any theses challenging Schreier’s information. The comment was clearly prepared in advance, and the studio did not read the material itself.

Released at the end of February, Anthem became the lowest-rated game in the history of BioWare. It was raw, not ready for release and managed to annoy the players even at the demo stage. Kotaku portal spoke with 19 anonymous BioWare employees who worked directly on the game or were related to it. And they told me why it happened.

In the release week, Anthem soared to the very top of the UK chart, despite low sales and a barrage of criticism from players and the media. In the second week, Anthem sales fell by 71% — but even after that, the game retains its leadership in the top.

Anthem’s release sales in the UK were compared with the starting results of other famous titles. The figures clearly demonstrate how small the success of the new game from BioWare is.

An advertising move, not devoid of originality.

Electronic Arts has published a schedule of access to Anthem, a BioWare game service. Judging by it, EA expects to accustom users to subscribe to its services.

On January 25, Origin launched a closed demo of Anthem, a game service from BioWare. Electronic Arts gave access to the title to a limited number of users for three days. But Anthem just doesn’t let them play with themselves.

The next award of The Game Awards has ended in Los Angeles. At the ceremony, new high-profile titles were announced and fresh information on already announced projects was presented.

Ex-employees of BioWare Austin Dallas Dickinson (Dallas Dickinson) and Gabe Amantangelo (Game Amantangelo) told how Electronic Arts forced them to leave the famous studio and open their own company for the sake of reviving their own project.