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BioWare is to close down Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Asia Pacific servers and merge them with the North American servers. A specific timeframe for the closure has not yet been revealed, although it has been announced that Mastar Dar’Nala (PvP) will transfer to The Bastion (PvP), Gav Daragon (RP-PvE) …
Read More »BioWare "getting ready to develop new Mass Effect game"
Regardless of whether your Shepard lived to tell another tale at the end of Mass Effect 3, don’t expect your favourite gender-hopping space hero to return in the next game. That’s because BioWare has said it plans to tell a completely different story in the next Mass Effect game – …
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic registers 2m new accounts since F2P switch
Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen an increase of 2m new accounts since switching to the free-to-play model last November. In a State of the Game blog post, executive producer Jeff Hickman announced the figure – adding that the game’s high capacity servers are teeming with people,” thanks to …
Read More »Report: BioWare closes San Francisco office
Between 25-to-30 staff lose their jobs at Dragon Age: Legends developer
Read More »Report – Bioware San Francisco shut down, all staff laid off
Dragon Age: Legends developer Bioware San Francisco is reportedly no more. GamesRadar first pointed to anonymous sources (that were later corroborated by IGN) claiming that the California-based studio was too expensive” for mobile development to maintain. According to the sources, the studio employed between 25 and 30 staff, with the …
Read More »Love-themed talks make way to GDC
Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider to discuss sexism and sexuality in games
Read More »BioWare founders to receive lifetime achievement awards
Founders behind the Mass Effect studio to be honoured at GDCAs
Read More »BioWare: Don’t think of the next Mass Effect as Mass Effect 4
The Mass Effect game currently in development will not star Commander Shepard and will likely not be a prequel or a sequel to the existing trilogy. "To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here," …
Read More »BioWare "was mature enough to handle the EA bear hug"
The EA acquisition process has been described as well meaning but vigorous” by the former boss of EA-owned studio BioWare. BioWare was acquired by EA back in 2007 and has gone on to produce smash hits such as the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, as well as MMO Star …
Read More »SWTOR limits same-sex relationships to one planet
Gay NPCs locked behind paywall and high-level world
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