EA's Choice: Star Wars Battlefront 3 Over Mass Effect 5 Leads to BioWare's Closure

10/30/2026

A new report has claimed that the main reason EA shut down BioWare and cancelled Mass Effect: Universe was because of the opportunity to work with Disney on Star Wars Battlefront 3.

10/30/2026

A new report has revealed that EA closed BioWare because it was forced to choose between investing in one of two sci-fi projects: a new Mass Effect game or a new Star Wars Battlefront game. And it...

10/30/2026

Star Wars Battlefront 3 has just been added to the list of reasons why BioWare and Mass Effect are no longer with us, a new report says. BioWare’s doom had been spelled out over the past decade...

10/30/2026

According to a new report, Electronic Arts closed down the venerated RPG studio BioWare to shift resources away from Mass Effect and toward a new Star Wars: Battlefront title.

10/30/2026

Electronic Arts shut down the legendary RPG studio BioWare last week, ending development on an untitled fifth Mass Effect game. Since then, we've seen what appears to be a leaked trailer for the...

10/30/2026

The publisher weighed which sci-fi project it wanted to invest in, and the upcoming multiplayer game won the coin toss

10/30/2026

Anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg claimed EA scrapped Mass Effect to reallocate resources to the next Star Wars game.

10/30/2026

EA announced that it was closing BioWare on October 21, while also canceling the next Mass Effect game. An anonymous employee responded by leaking an internal trailer, giving us our best look yet...

10/30/2026

EA responds to official inquiries into its decision to shut down Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio BioWare.