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Electronic Arts confirmed on Wednesday that BioWare, the celebrated RPG developer, will be shut down. Few were truly shocked. The studio’s latest releases drew mixed reviews and underwhelming sales. Still, many fans had quietly hoped it would recover its old magic. For a whole generation of players and developers, BioWare means surviving the suicide mission...

Generals! Welcome, I’m Norrman. I’ve been working alongside Marijn and Alex on the upcoming Romania Focus Pack, and I’ll be handling the opening section of this Dev Diary. First, a little about me. I’ve been playing Hearts of Iron IV since roughly a month after launch, and I’ve now been modding it for a little...

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now BioWare’s final game. EA announced on Wednesday that the studio will close its doors after thirty years. The 2024 action-RPG sparked endless debate online, and it now serves as the studio’s farewell. It never should have ended this way. BioWare deserved the chance to finish the projects already underway,...

Despite a few restrictions, the game launched uncut in most countries. The team behind the horror game Hellraiser: Revival set an unusual goal: make the game so brutal and provocative that at least one country would ban it or refuse to give it an age rating. Narrative director Antony De Fault shared this in an...

The search for the next James Bond is nearly over. More than five years have passed since Daniel Craig left the role in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die. According to a new report, Amazon MGM Studios is entering the final phase of its search and will hold its last round of auditions over...

The Critical Role cast has played Dungeons & Dragons together for decades. It’s easy to assume they can handle any combat scenario Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer throws at them. But as every D&D player eventually learns, no amount of experience or preparation helps when the dice turn against you. That happened four years ago in...

The studio’s creative lead shared the details. Control Resonant creative director Mikael Kasurinen said Remedy Entertainment’s new game is not meant to reveal the studio’s plans for future projects. According to him, despite a noticeable Easter egg tied to Alan Wake, the developers wanted the sequel to be a standalone story with a complete ending....

Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord hasn’t appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2023, when James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy definitively concluded. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 gave Star-Lord (aka Peter Quill) a hard reset. The intergalactic hero returned to Earth and found new purpose in enjoying Terran cereal and contemplating an amateur career...

Microsoft plans three more rounds of layoffs in its Xbox gaming division, in October, November, and January, according to Fortune, which cites sources familiar with the situation. The company has already cut 1,868 employees since it announced a large-scale restructuring in July 2026. The restructuring has already had serious consequences for Microsoft’s internal game teams...

Netflix’s romantic comedy Nobody Wants This returns for its third season on October 22, 2026, with all ten new episodes arriving at once. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody reprise their leading roles as podcast host Joanne and rabbi Noah. After a rocky stretch in their relationship, the couple finally decide to move in together and...

Wednesday was a rough day for Mass Effect fans. EA announced that it is closing its development studio BioWare and canceling the fifth game in the sci-fi role-playing series. The franchise isn’t vanishing entirely, though. Amazon MGM has not pulled the plug on its upcoming Mass Effect TV series, which will move forward. Mass Effect...

Horror is one of anime’s most underappreciated corners. The medium can certainly produce depraved imagery, as Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man show. Genuine horror beats often get buried under the industry’s focus on action, fantasy, and sprawling shonen adventures. There are exceptions. The most striking is Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue. Mononoke uses surreal imagery to...

CD Projekt RED has published the patch notes for update 2.5 for Cyberpunk 2077 and released the update on October 22. The update includes technical improvements, additional content, and new gameplay options. Players can take on a new side quest, Clampdown, which serves as an introduction to the events of the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2:...

As more and more publishers turn their backs on physical media, fans of Phantom Blade Zero feared the game might follow the same path. The news is mixed. A boxed edition is indeed on the way, but it won’t land on shelves until several months after the game’s debut. Your browser does not support the...

Players who rely on the Custom Galactic War mod for Helldivers 2 have run into problems after the game’s latest update. Arrowhead Game Studios recently released the large 7.2.0 update, called Devoid of Liberty, which the source sarcastically says “delighted” players. It brought a range of improvements and a new anti-cheat system. The co-op shooter...

Chris Pratt will once again play Peter Quill, better known as Star-Lord, in an upcoming Marvel project. The actor confirmed that the studio has already taken concrete steps to bring the character back to the screen, though he isn’t ready to say when he will appear. “I have a wonderful relationship with Kevin Feige and...