Really sad to hear that BioWare is closing its doors after 31 years. I can’t say it’s entirely surprising given how difficult the last decade has been for the studio, but it’s still a shame to see another enormously influential name disappear from the industry. This was the developer behind Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2, among so many others. What an incredible run of games they had :(
I’ve written a little piece looking back at BioWare’s history, some of my favorite games from their glory days, and how depressing it’s becoming to see so many studios shutting down. Whatever you think of BioWare’s more recent output, I think gaming is a little poorer without them.
Clearly the news has been covered and re-covered, so this is just a brief look over their work.
Disney acquiring Starwars definitely hampered any licensing at the time. Around that time I was looking forward to Starwars 1313. It looked like an absolutely amazing Starwars game that was going to play similarly to mass effect.
I heard good things about the new Star Wars XCOM-esque game, but I haven’t even started to look at trying it yet
Never played an X-COM game, but I bought Zero Company and loved the ever living shit out of it. I was so sad when I finished it because I wanted more. I’ll be replaying it again for sure now that I’ve finished up some other games I wanted to get to.
Definitely well worth a go. Lighter than X-COM but with a lovely smattering of Star Wars lore and Easter eggs.
Same. The only things I’m aware about for that game is the poor performance and that most of the dev team is on furlough, so the updates are very very very slow.