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Electronic Arts lays off 400 in latest blow to beleaguered gaming industry
Electronic Arts (EA) is reducing its global workforce by 3%, or about 400 jobs, and shutting down BioWare, the 31-year-old studio behind the Mass Effect series. The cuts, announced yesterday, are the first major changes at EA since the gaming giant…
Video Game Industry Responds to BioWare Shutting Down
Electronic Arts revealed on Wednesday that the legendary RPG studio BioWare is no more. The sudden shuttering wasn't exactly a surprise to onlookers — recent BioWare releases received mixed reviews and middling sales numbers — but…
Game industry legend Warren Spector blows up over BioWare's closure: 'it's utter bulls**t
Maybe all of the people who participated—the folks in suits (real or virtual) should lose their damn jobs. I ask them to ponder this: What do you contribute to gaming? What price do you pay for failure? Immersive sim legend Warren Spector…
Games industry mourns shock BioWare closure - 'Anyone who participated in this travesty should be ashamed'
Following the sudden closure of Bioware last night, people from across the games industry have shared their sympathies for those employees losing their jobs, and said farewell to one of the most influential RPG developers of all time. The reactions…
We're now entering an era where the name BioWare won't show up anymore when discussing upcoming RPGs' - The game industry reacts to the shuttering of legendary Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio, BioWare
EA has laid off 400 employees across its studios and is shutting down BioWare The Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio confirmed that Mass Effect 5 is canceled Developers and creatives across the industry have reacted to the news, calling it…
BioWare: Mass Effect and Dragon Age video game studio to close
BioWare, the video game studio behind sci-fi epic Mass Effect and fantasy saga Dragon Age, has been closed down. The Canadian developer specialising in role-playing games was founded in 1995 and found millions of fans with its complex, branching…
Shigeru Miyamoto named first video game-related recipient of Japan's Order of Culture
Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary figure behind Nintendo franchises such as Mario and The Legend of Zelda, has been named the first-ever video game-related recipient of Japan's Order of Culture. On Friday, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports…
Wrong anthems played at Asian Para Games after mishap-marred Asian Games
Wrong national anthems were played three times at the Asian Para Games in Japan's Nagoya this week, prompting the mayor to apologise just days after the city hosted the mishap-plagued Asian Games. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Asian Para…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review - a thrilling airport novel of a game
And so we return perhaps one final time to Call of Duty's Modern Warfare strand, with stories, “ripped from the newspaper headlines”, featuring shady terror organisations, nefarious rogue states and the brutally capable, monosyllabic…
Not Just Game Discs: Sony's Killing Its Blu-Ray Players, Too
Sony is exiting yet another market it used to dominate: Blu-ray players. You're likely having flashbacks to PlayStation's big announcement that it was killing off game disc production in 2028. The thing is, this move has more subtle ramifications…
With lockout looming, World Series could be MLB's last games for a while
MILWAUKEE — On the eve of the World Series, there is a realization these may be Major League Baseball's last games for a while. Owners are pushing for a salary cap, and that could prompt a lockout starting Dec. 2 and result in canceled games…
Claudia Winkleman nearly gave away entire The Traitors game with 1 mistake
Claudia Winkleman has admitted that she almost gave away an entire game of The Traitors while she was in the room of an intense round table scene. BBC's hit show The Celebrity Traitors returned to our screens earlier this month with stars such as…
Switch 2 jailbreak gives hackers new ways to run homebrew and mod games
A security researcher has demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Switch 2, gaining “userland” access that he says “lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games, back up save files off the Switch…
Scientific Games Wins North American Lottery Game of the Year and iLottery Game of the Year.
Massachusetts State Lottery $500,000 FRENZY and Pennsylvania Lottery THE GUS GAME SHOW Games Recognized for Innovation and Performance ATLANTA, Oct. 22, 2026 /CNW/ -- Scientific Games won Lottery Game of the Year and iLottery Game of the Year in…
Celebrity Traitors' secret traitor 'confirmed' as one star's game plan 'exposed
Celebrity Traitors fans are sure there's a secret Traitor hiding in plain sight. The BBC show is back for a new series, with drama and chaos so far - which has seen Richard E Grant admit he's a Traitor moments after being made one, and Hannah Fry…
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