Ashe

Ashe

@ladyinsanity.bsky.social

Content Creator, etc. 💛💜 Past Life account. Chatty about gaming, tech, and privacy. https://ladyinsanity.crd.co

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BioWare's loss has impacted our team as many of us spent over a decade working on their games. While we'll never be able to recapture the glory days exactly as they were, you can find some of the former BW team are still here, still making games, trying to do our roots proud.

Since I was asked: Yeah, the ME5 Council was real. I had the choice between Dragon Age and Mass Effect, and I chose DA. Have no reason to think what Dantics said isn’t real. He was on a previous BW/EA thing I was on as well. Details may be not current (dev is always in flux) but likely true.

For the record, BioWare has previously referenced it as ME5. Not in PR, but in tweets, taglines and metadata. Please stop the “It’S NoT Me5” headcanons 😔🙏🏼

Kotaku@kotaku.com

One day after EA shut down BioWare, a trailer has begun circulating for what some claim was supposed to be Mass Effect 5, a game called Mass Effect: Universe starring Liara T'Soni and a new protagonist. https://kotaku.com/mass-effect-5-universe-leaked-trailer-liara-bioware-2000748858

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Former BioWare Senior Writers Mary Kirby (Varric, Vivienne, Lucanis) and Sylvia Feketekuty (Liara, Josephine, Emmrich) and Sarah Hayward (Former BioWare Cinematic Director) have found a home at North Mist with many others in our network.

North Mist Studios@northmiststudios.bsky.social

Very heavy news as our former studio, BioWare closes its doors today. It was a formative place for many. However, many former BioWare devs are scattered around the industry. Find them, support them. Like, follow, comment and help us prove there is still support for the types of games we make!

Will never regret loving BioWare and its games the way I did. Goodbye to the hopes and dreams for what once was that will never again be.

Was curious. Pulled out the deck. Indulge me a bit, for I wouldn’t have shared if not for that middle row. Top row: BioWare’s past Middle: Present Bottom: Future

All I see is M$ in five years: “Is the new Xbox out of your budget? No worries. Subscribe to our new cost-effective plan: Xbox Live ‘Unlimited’ Streaming! It’s $49.95 a month 😀”

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social

Fortune: The next Xbox "Helix" console is projected to cost consumers between $1200-1800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost ➡️ fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...

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PSA for PC Dragon Age Veilguard players who mod: Something has happened, no one is sure what yet, but a new update has made it so DAV Frosty on at least Steam no longer works on Windows 10. More importantly: IF YOU ARE ON WINDOWS 11, a new update looks like it breaks it too! Delay updates!!

The show is making my brain run at 110% in scanning every reference to surrealism, art history, psychology Like the layered Oscar Wilde reference? Holy shit that REALLY took me tf out, who’s the demon who wrote this script 10/10 start so far

My friends and I had our OCs ripped by a few readers and put on Character AI, and people would flaunt the weird shit they would "do" with them. (Characters we wrote canonically as minors, mind.) Character AI wouldn't do anything about it, unless we brought in a lawyer. So, yeah. Good riddance

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

YESSS IVE WAITED SO LONG

Dave Gilbert@wadjeteyegames.com

When you tell bad vampire jokes, it's important to know your audience. Experience the (lack of?) humor yourself when Nighthawks launches on Sept 22nd! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

In case you missed the glaring HIPAA violation from Apple today

Pop Crave@popcrave.com

Apple announces 'Live Rewind' for the new Apple Watch, letting users pull up the last 15 seconds of nearby conversation.

TL;DR The new Apple Watch listens to conversations and can write an AI summary about your day. If you have a doctor wearing it, likely 1) Your conversation is permanently recorded 2) They don't have iCloud's Advanced Data Protection encryption turned on 3) Your info will be in the wild

Hopefully I don't have to go into detail on how listening and passively writing other people's conversations that you don't have permission to record is just as bleak

switching sides 🏴‍☠️

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social

Microsoft switches to monthly hour limits in big changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, cites rising cloud costs: ▪️Ultimate: 15 hours ▪️Premium: 10 hours ▪️Essential: 5 hours Once subscribers use up their hours, they can buy additional cloud playtime through the Xbox Store ➡️ www.ign.com/articles/mic...

To add: 153+ MILLION U.S. driver licenses were recently leaked on the dark web. From your neighbor to the literal Defense Sec. It is reckless to think any of these ID verification services are secure. Any of them. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

krebsonsecurity.comFBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security
Ashe@ladyinsanity.bsky.social

Why do I have to give my facial biometrics and ID so I can have the privilege of POSSIBLY buying tickets, Ticketmaster?! @ticketmaster.com Love Olivia Rodrigo but LMAO you're insane

I was a minor when I started buying Playstation games. Back when I bought Final Fantasy 8, I OWNED Final Fantasy 8 I only found out about licensing a decade later because I was trying to get into the gaming industry. How would a “reasonable consumer” ever know the rules changed 💀

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...

If this is enough to make you want to break up, do it. Break up and — this is the important part — go to therapy. If you cannot separate real life from fiction, that is 100% on you.

IGN@ign.com

A bunch of angry spouses on social media believe that Grand Theft Auto 6's in-depth relationship mechanic is equivalent to cheating on your real life partner and worth breaking up over. https://bit.ly/4qLlUbp

My conspiracy take: there are people using this excuse to get out of miserable marriages. If so, you do you girlie. Get out, no-fault divorce ASAP Still… get therapy

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I will never call you. Don't care who you are - I will NEVER call you first. Anyone saying they're me through phone is a scammer. You're more likely get a text from me before any call! I'm a millennial, dammit

X algo is on gamescom and a slew of new SA cases tiktok on olivia rodrigo's concert and the power and food crisis increasing prices ~5% again by Q1 2027 bluesky is about ya'll, ya'll

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Love me some number padding. 📈📈📈 Still, whoever ends up throwing down the cash to buy Dragon Age better be brave. The lore is deep and its fandom lovingly feral - it will not do well under an EA v2.

Caitie@ghildirthalen.bsky.social

why are we getting veilguard demos suddenly. whats the play. why now. its been two years. whats going on. do i live in crazy town.