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Also just so folks know, the Wedge of Destiny ships out in a vacuum-sealed bag to save on space & shipping costs! It needs a day or so for the plush filling to decompress (relatable tbh)

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

who's with me

listen, I'm not saying that making private equity firms turbo-illegal would fix *everything* that's wrong with the world, but I am saying it'd be a good fucking start

If you ever wondered why the first Dragon Age took over 6 years to develop (and almost got canceled), this article goes into partly why: the team couldn't agree on what *kind* of fantasy our new fantasy game was going to be. Yes, there's an alternate universe out there where it was more Conan. 😉

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BioWare funerary slideshow

To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

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.

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

I know that Bioware is the big headline but let's not ignore the folks across EA who were also caught up in this wave

*me flagging down the cosmos* Hi I'm sorry but I asked for a killer BioWare-run epic RPG with a side of musical, not this side-musical killing BioWare's run on epic RPGs :C (universe this is the part where you flex ominously behind all of us and reiterate that we asked for no pickles, please)

‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

Some folks still don’t get that shit like game studios getting shuttered & mass layoffs & not being able to afford things & the generative AI hellscape are all symptoms of the same bigger problems that are contributing to the enshittification of everything. Use your brain instead of generative AI.

it's 2030. there is one american game job. the game is a result of the fortnite-roblox merger. they added gatchas and ads exclusively for prediction market platforms. while you work on it, jared kushner and a random c-suite with at least 3 sexual assault cases take turns yelling at you.

Came across this while looking through my DA art. Iirc I doodled it to cheer someone up who was having a bad day, so guess I'll post it for all of us today

It is really difficult to explain the to non-Bioware fans the deep love one can have for the lives and characters we lived in those Bioware universe. They feel like past lives. They feel like real loves. When I am on my death bed I will probably still fondly think of Thane calling me siha.

I was at BioWare over 12 years. It's where I got started writing games. I met and worked alongside wonderful people. Kind, talented, passionate. I learned a lot. I helped create some amazing stories that I'm glad made it out into the world. The people and the stories are what I cherish most.

BioWare, which was once hundreds of employees across three offices, had around 50 staff remaining when EA closed the studio this morning. EA gutted BioWare after the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard last year, as we reported then: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

the only option is to keep making art

Veilguard is fucking fantastic and I'm still having fun playing it over and over again; everything ain't for everyone but I choose to focus on what I love rather than what I don't. Like every other DA game, it's been fiction that has helped me navigate some awful, harsh, difficult reality.

I loved the work I did at BioWare. I love the characters I wrote & collaborated on, the people I worked with. I learned so much from so many smart, talented, kind folx & all of that made me a better writer & person. Big, complicated feelings today but also, sadness. Much love, folx. I remember.

I should go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-cG...

I had an incredible high school teacher whose words feel so relevant today. Paraphrasing (cuz it was years and years ago) If you want a strong indicator of the health of a society, look at how that society values its artists.

The very last task I had at BioWare before I left to pursue a new opportunity was to paint this pose of Solas embracing the Inquisitor (I didn't paint this entire image, it was just the figures). Even at the time it felt poignant that this would be my last contribution to Dragon Age.

i think the games industry should have studios that exist

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

We should be playing Dragon Age 7, Anthem 2, Halo 8, Mass Effect 6 and so on but management continues to enjoy hiring people and telling them they’re not actually allowed to do their jobs. Bioware’s been in my life since I was fucking born, dude. I can’t believe this.

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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