The next game in the Mass Effect series has acquired a senior narrative director. He became an experienced screenwriter Mary DeMarle, who previously worked for Eidos Montreal and Ubisoft.

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)

Mass Effect Legendary Edition failed to hold a leading position in the list of the best-selling Steam games in the second week of sales. After the release of the PC version of Days Gone, the sci-fi trilogy dropped to second place.

Released on Friday, May 14, Mass Effect Legendary Edition soared to the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Among other novelties in the top ten are the BIOMUTANT being prepared for release and the Endwalker add—on for FINAL FANTASY XIV, for which a pre-order has recently opened.

On the night of December 10-11, the game analogue of the Oscar was held — The Game Awards 2020. In addition to the awards itself, it also hosted a number of announcements and debut screenings of gameplay for the expected games. We have made a selection of the brightest projects from the event.

BioWare Austin Creative Director James Ohlen spoke about the reasons that inspired the studio to create its own space saga Mass Effect instead of working on the sequel Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic.

BioWare has decided to temporarily suspend work on the Mass Effect role-playing series, Kotaku reports, citing sources close to the company.

Electronic Arts (EA) has announced the merger of its two leading Australian studios engaged in projects for mobile platforms, Iron Monkey and Firemint. Now the companies will work under the general brand of FireMonkeys.