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2026-10-24 5 stories

• Mass Effect Universe "looked incredible" says creator who claims he advised BioWare 4 sources
• One of 2026’s Best-Rated Games Is Basically Mass Effect With Spies
• New Blood CEO confirms it: the worst way to sell immersive sims like Gloomwood and Fallen Aces is to call them immersive sims
• After 14 years of development, Factorio's final major update is out now
• A24’s Elden Ring Movie Costs Nearly $200 Million

2026-10-23 25 stories

• As devastating Xbox "reset" continues, Dishonored studio Arkane Lyon reportedly only has until November to find a new buyer before it's closed 10 sources
• BioWare Is No More, But Its Impact On Queer Representation In Video Games Will Live On Forever 6 sources
• The Next Mass Effect Sounded Like John Wick In Space 4 sources
• Mass Effect crossover items have seemingly been removed from Battlefield 6 following EA's sudden closure of BioWare 4 sources
• Mass Effect Fans Call for EA Boycott as Petition to Save BioWare's Canceled Game Garners More than 75,000 Signatures 3 sources
• Half-Life 3 is back in the news again as Valve developer accidentally sort-of references it in public, reigniting hope once more 3 sources
• Cancelling Mass Effect And Closing BioWare Was An Obvious Thing For EA To Do, Experts Say 3 sources
• Canadian Politician Wants the Government to Bail Out Mass Effect Developer BioWare 3 sources
• Shepard Actor Reacts To Leaked Mass Effect Trailer, Is “Holding Hope” The Game Will Live On 2 sources
• Helldivers 3? Not Unless It's Very Different from Helldivers 2, Says Arrowhead 2 sources
• Dead By Daylight Delistings Continue As Developer Reveals It Must F**k With The Chuck 2 sources
• Creative Assembly exec pins the blame for the Shogun 2 remaster mess on someone else: 'This was not a Creative Assembly developed game' 2 sources
• Control Resonant’s Unsettling Board Dialogue Is Carefully Crafted Gibberish 2 sources
• WoW: Forever’s Divisive Layering Will See Major Improvements For Launch, Blizzard Says
• Vinland Saga Creator Gives a Heartbreaking Update on the Anime's Third Season
• Sims Competitor InZoi Deletes “Uncomfortable” Post After Fan Pushback
• Rideshare Stimulator’s Biggest Problem Isn’t AI, It’s That The Game Just Isn’t Very Good
• Leave It To Double Fine To Make The First Single-Player Friendslop Game
• It’s Over – We Know Who Launched The First Nukes in Fallout
• Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"
• Flashy internal trailer for now-cancelled Mass Effect Universe appears online, following EA's closure of BioWare
• Factorio's final major update has rolled off the assembly line, adding "the things we wanted to do for 2.0 but didn't have time for"
• Disney's Officially Bringing Back a '90s Cartoon Icon After 35 Years
• Avengers: Doomsday Promoted With Baseball-Themed Crossover Featuring MLB Players During World Series
• Angelfall First Impressions—A Beautiful Battle Between Angels & Demons

2026-10-22 20 stories

• Games industry mourns sudden BioWare closure - "Anyone who participated in this travesty should be ashamed" 13 sources
• Mass Effect TV Show Still Going Ahead After EA Cancels Mass Effect 5 And Closes BioWare, Report Says 6 sources
• Dispatch Is Coming To Mobile In December, With Its First Four Episodes Free 4 sources
• Phantom Blade Zero Physical Edition Disc Release Revealed 3 sources
• Following shock BioWare closure, scope of EA job cuts becomes clear as layoffs hit Respawn, Maxis, Full Circle, EA Motive, and more 3 sources
• BioWare's cancelled Mass Effect game would've learned from Baldur's Gate 3 and The Witcher to deliver "a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has" 3 sources
• After The BioWare Shutdown, Mass Effect Spiritual Successor Exodus Gets A New Look 3 sources
• Saber Interactive CEO Says Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is Performing 'Extremely Well on PC and Consoles' with More to Come 2 sources
• EA Could Sell BioWare’s IP As It Looks To Tackle Its Massive Debt, Former Studio Boss Says 2 sources
• 'What we were cooking was really cool': An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5's story 2 sources
• Splash Damage acquired this studio just 3 months after laying off a bunch of people—now it's laying them off, too
• Over '30 million rounds of PvE were played' over the last week in Arc Raiders but Embark still needs 'a bit of time to understand what the data is telling us'
• Katana Zero DLC Is Still Coming, And It’s Apparently Freakin’ Huge Now
• HUNGER is a Horrific Extraction RPG That Can’t Be Missed
• Future Capcom games will have Onimusha to thank for RE Engine's gnarly dismemberments
• Every Video Game Studio That Has Shut Down in 2026
• Disgaea Creator Wants to Make 66 More Games Before He Turns 75, But There's a Catch
• Cyberpunk 2 Associate Director Says Half of Game's Quest Team Are Former Modders
• Black Flag Resynced Is Getting New Game+ Next Week
• 'Regions Are Cheating and We Need to Address It' — Wardogs Dev Says Region Locking Is About 'Protecting the Largest Amount of Players'