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'I'm Holding Hope' — FemShep Voice Actor Jennifer Hale Speaks Out After EA Shuts Down BioWare and Mass Effect 5 Trailer Leaks Online Jennifer Hale, stemmeskuespilleren bag den kvindelige Commander Shepard, har reageret på et lækket trailerklip fra det kommende Mass Effect-spil. Spillet skulle angiveligt være blevet aflyst, efter EA lukkede BioWare, men Hale håber fortsat, at projektet eller seriens rettigheder kan finde en ny udvikler. Brancheanalytikere vurderer dog, at et salg af BioWares spiluniverser er usandsynligt.

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Amazon Slashes Magic: The Gathering's The Hobbit Gift Bundle, but We Crunched the Numbers on Its Collector Booster and You Should Wait for Black Friday to Buy Magic: The Gathering – The Hobbit Gift Bundle kan lige nu købes hos Amazon for 99,99 dollar, svarende til en rabat på 9 procent. Pakken indeholder blandt andet ni Play Boosters, landkort, en promokortvariant og en Collector Booster. IGN vurderer dog, at tilbuddet næppe giver en væsentlig besparelse sammenlignet med at købe delene separat, og anbefaler at vente på Black Friday.

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Mass Effect 5 Would've Featured 'Hitman-Style Freedom' in Missions, 'Brutal Executions,' and Romance That 'Wasn't Being Sanitized' Nye oplysninger om det aflyste Mass Effect 5 beskriver et rollespil med håndlavede missioner og stor frihed i stil med Hitman. Spillet skulle foregå mere end 600 år efter Reaper-krigen og have fraktioner, der kæmpede i en galaktisk kold krig. Liara skulle vende tilbage, mens BioWare nu er lukket, og projektet er annulleret.

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IGN Is Partnering with Best Buy for 3 Weeks of Giveaways Leading Up to GTA VI’s Release - IGN IGN og Best Buy arrangerer tre ugers konkurrencer op til udgivelsen af Grand Theft Auto VI den 19. november 2026. Fra 26. oktober til 13. november kan amerikanske deltagere vinde blandt andet PlayStation Portal, tv’er, headsets, controllere og soundbars. Kampagnen afsluttes med et arrangement i Best Buy-butikken i Torrance, Californien, den 14. november.

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BioWare May Be Gone, But Its Spirit Lives On in These Games BioWare blev lukket af EA tidligere på ugen efter en længere periode uden et nyt stort hit. Artiklen ser tilbage på studiets betydning for rollespil med titler som Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins og Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Den fremhæver også nyere spil som Baldur’s Gate 3, The Outer Worlds og The Witcher 3 som værker, der viderefører BioWares fokus på relationer og konsekvensfulde valg.

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Get Marathon and 7 More Steam Games for $25 in Humble's New Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle Humble Bundle fejrer sit 15-års jubilæum med en Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle, der samler otte pc-spil til Steam for mindst 25 dollar. Pakken indeholder blandt andet Bungies Marathon, tre Crysis Remastered-spil, RoboCop: Rogue City - Collection samt Ghostrunner og Ghostrunner 2. Tilbuddet kan købes i omkring 20 dage, og en del af betalingen kan doneres til velgørenhed.

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'I Feel Incredibly Awkward but Truly Honored' — Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto Is the First Game Developer to Receive Japan's Order of Culture Nintendo-designeren Shigeru Miyamoto modtager Japans Order of Culture ved en ceremoni den 3. november. Han bliver den første spiludvikler, der får den prestigefyldte hæder, som gives for fremragende bidrag til landets kultur. Miyamoto har spillet en central rolle i udviklingen af Mario, The Legend of Zelda og Star Fox og har arbejdet hos Nintendo siden 1977.

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Planned Mass Effect Content Disappears from Battlefield 6 Store After BioWare Shutdown EA ser ud til stille at have fjernet planlagt Mass Effect-indhold fra Battlefield 6, efter at BioWare blev lukket og Mass Effect 5 angiveligt blev aflyst. Indholdet omfattede blandt andet N7-mærkede genstande, våben og en Normandy-inspireret våbenpynt. Fjernelsen kommer kort før N7 Day og har vakt yderligere utilfredshed blandt fans af den populære science fiction-serie.

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More Than 50,000 Mass Effect Fans Have Flocked to a Petition to Try and Save the Franchise Following BioWare's Closure En fanpetition for at redde Mass Effect har rundet 52.000 underskrifter, få dage efter at EA lukkede BioWare og aflyste det kommende Mass Effect-spil. Initiativet opfordrer EA til enten at lade et andet studie fortsætte udviklingen eller licensere serien videre. Det vurderes dog som usandsynligt, at petitionen alene får selskabet til at ændre beslutningen.

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Marvel's Blade Is Reportedly Still in Development at Arkane Lyon Despite Xbox Closure Threat Arkane Lyon kan blive lukket i november, hvis Microsoft ikke finder en køber til studiet, der beskæftiger 217 medarbejdere. Fagforeningen forsøger at forlænge forhandlingerne om en overtagelse og en plan for de berørte ansatte. Studiets lukning kan også bringe udviklingen af Marvel's Blade i fare, selv om spillet fortsat er under udvikling.

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Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With Apple har gemt et interaktivt påskeæg i webversionen af Apple Music. Ved at åbne en ikke-eksisterende side vises en fungerende førstegenerations-iPod, hvor man kan afspille korte musikeksempler. I iPod’ens indstillinger findes endnu et påskeæg, nemlig det klassiske spil Breakout. Funktionen kan kun opleves i en webbrowser og markerer 25-året for den oprindelige iPod.

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Grand Theft Auto V – The Legacy Review IGN ser tilbage på Grand Theft Auto V som led i en gennemgang af seriens centrale spil før udgivelsen af Grand Theft Auto 6. Artiklen fremhæver spillets langvarige succes, det detaljerede og varierede San Andreas-kort samt systemet med tre spilbare hovedpersoner. GTA V beskrives som et spil, der fortsat imponerer 13 år efter lanceringen og har sat standarden for moderne open world-actionspil.

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'They Should Be Given Federal Support' — Canadian Politician Wants the Government to Bail Out Mass Effect Developer BioWare Canadas oppositionsleder Avi Lewis opfordrer regeringen til at hjælpe BioWare-udviklerne med at købe og drive studiet videre efter Electronic Arts’ lukning af afdelingen i Edmonton. Omstruktureringen har ifølge rapporter kostet omkring 400 arbejdspladser og sat udviklingen af nye Mass Effect- og Dragon Age-projekter under pres. Lewis kritiserer samtidig private equity-ejerskabets fokus på kortsigtet profit.

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PlayStation Discounts Select PS5 Bundles Ahead of Black Friday — Save Up to $155 on a Refurbished Console and Two DualSense Controllers Before GTA 6 PlayStation giver 40 dollar rabat ved køb af en certificeret istandsat PS5-konsol og en recertificeret DualSense-controller i samme ordre. Tilbuddet starter ved 518 dollar for Digital Edition og 568 dollar for modellen med diskdrev, med rabatten trukket automatisk ved betaling. Kampagnen kommer før Black Friday og GTA 6, der ifølge artiklen udkommer 19. november 2026.

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'This Was Entirely Predictable' — BioWare's Future Was in Jeopardy Well before EA's $55 Billion Acquisition, Analysts Say BioWare er lukket som led i EAs omfattende omstrukturering, der også medfører aflysninger og omkring 400 tabte arbejdspladser. Spilbrancheanalytikere vurderer, at studiets fremtid blev svækket af høje udviklingsomkostninger, skuffende salg og EAs store gældsbyrde efter opkøbet. De tvivler samtidig på, at Mass Effect- og Dragon Age-rettighederne bliver solgt videre, fordi projekterne er dyre og langsigtede.

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'Who Is Here After Watching the Leaked Mass Effect Universe Trailer?' — the Exodus Devs Picked a Hell of a Time to Reveal Their Redesigned Male Protagonist Archetype Entertainment har vist en opdateret udgave af den mandlige hovedperson Jun Aslan i det kommende science fiction-rollespil Exodus. Ansigtet er redesignet efter kritik fra fans, som nu generelt virker mere tilfredse. Afsløringen kommer kort efter, at EA har lukket BioWare og aflyst Mass Effect 5, hvilket har øget opmærksomheden på Exodus som en mulig åndelig efterfølger. Spillet udkommer 7. april 2027.

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'Our End Goal Is That Every Match Is a Good Match' — Infinity Ward Weighs in on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Matchmaking Infinity Wards multiplayerchef, Joe Cecot, siger, at målet med matchmaking i Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 er at skabe gode kampe, men han giver ingen konkrete detaljer om systemet. Spillet er lanceret uden en tydeligt angivet åben matchmaking-kø, som ellers fandtes som valgmulighed i Black Ops 7. Det har genoplivet debatten om skill-based matchmaking blandt spillerne.

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Breaking Down the Future of Disney Lorcana TCG with Co-Founder Ryan Miller Disney Lorcana får nye kortsæt, mekanikker og samlerprodukter, mens Ravensburger løfter sløret for spillets planer ved D23. Hyperia City er lanceret med figurer fra blandt andet Coco og en ny ressource kaldet Ink Drops. I 2027 kommer sættene Into the Inkdark og Cosmic Quest, ligesom en digital version af spillet er under udvikling.

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Cyberpunk 2077 2.5 Update Secretly Added The Witcher 3 Sword and Cosmetics Cyberpunk 2077-opdatering 2.5 indeholder flere The Witcher 3-inspirerede genstande, som ikke fremgår af de officielle patchnoter. Spillere kan blandt andet finde Sihil-sværdet, Boar Carver-kniven, Professorens briller samt jakke og bukser fra Ursine-skolen. Genstandene bliver tilgængelige i V’s lejlighed efter en besked om en gave.

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The Battlestar Galactica Board Game Is Making a Surprise Comeback Next Year Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game vender tilbage i en ny udgave, efter at Ghost Galaxy har indgået en aftale med Universal og Fantasy Flight Games. Den opdaterede version af det populære spil fra 2008 lanceres via crowdfunding tidligt næste år. Detaljerne er endnu få, men Christian T. Peterson, tidligere chef for Fantasy Flight Games, står i spidsen for projektet.

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Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember Preview: Killing Giant Spider Things, Wuxia-Style, and It Feels So Good IGN har prøvespillet Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, som kombinerer Team Ninjas hurtige actionkamp med strategiske elementer fra Three Kingdoms-universet. Spillet foregår på en dæmonisk ø og lægger vægt på aggressiv kamp, parader og en Spirit-måler uden stamina-begrænsning. Previewet fremhæver også de 18 våbentyper, magiske angreb og spillets detaljerede visuelle udtryk.

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'A Foot-in-the-Door Technique' — Half of Cyberpunk 2's Quest Team are Former Modders, Game's Associate Director Says Omkring halvdelen af quest-teamet på Cyberpunk 2 består ifølge associate game director Pawel Sasko af tidligere moddere. CD Projekt Red har aktivt rekrutteret fra moddingmiljøet og fremhæver fællesskabets betydning for Cyberpunk 2077’s fortsatte liv. Udmeldingen blev gentaget under en REDstream, hvor studiet også talte om nye opdateringer og udvidet platformsunderstøttelse.

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Amazon Slashes Magic: The Gathering Booster Boxes Ahead of Black Friday, Discounting Unreleased Star Trek and Marvel Crossover Sets To New Low Prices Amazon har sat prisen ned på flere Play Booster-bokse til Magic: The Gathering forud for Black Friday. Tilbuddene omfatter blandt andet kommende Star Trek-sæt samt kortserier baseret på Marvel, The Hobbit og Avatar: The Last Airbender. Artiklen understreger, at Play Boosters er billigere end Collector Boosters, som typisk indeholder de mest værdifulde kort.

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'More to Come' — Saber Interactive CEO Says Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is 'First in a Series' of Releases from the Studio Saber Interactive-topchef Matthew Karch siger, at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival klarer sig ekstremt godt på pc og konsoller efter udgivelsen 8. oktober. Han fremhæver spillet som et eksempel på, at mindre, etablerede IP-baserede AA-produktioner kan give stærke resultater med lavere risiko end meget dyre AAA-spil. Karch varsler samtidig flere udgivelser, der skal følge samme model.

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‘Now You’re Pushing It’ — Debra Wilson Drew the Line at the Wolverine Devs Scanning Her Tattoos Into the Game Skuespilleren Debra Wilson fortæller, at hun er blevet træt af, at hendes ansigt gentagne gange bruges i videospil. I det kommende Marvel’s Wolverine ville udviklerne også scanne hendes originale tatoveringer, hvilket fik hende til at sige fra. Wilson understreger dog, at hun ikke ønsker at begrænse kunstnernes kreative frihed, og at brugen af hendes lighed kan fungere i spil som Death Stranding 2.

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BioWare May Be Gone, But Its Spirit Lives On in These Games

BioWare blev lukket af EA tidligere på ugen efter en længere periode uden et nyt stort hit. Artiklen ser tilbage på studiets betydning for rollespil med titler som Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins og Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Den fremhæver også nyere spil som Baldur’s Gate 3, The Outer Worlds og The Witcher 3 som værker, der viderefører BioWares fokus på relationer og konsekvensfulde valg.

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BioWare was shut down by EA earlier this week. While the studio had struggled through a long stretch without putting out a genuine classic, it’s no lie to say it was behind some of the best RPGs of all time. At its peak, with games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins, BioWare was a pioneer of not only building worlds, but filling those worlds with characters I (and so many others) actually cared about.

But BioWare went so much further than just writing some witty dialog and calling it a day. I always think back to the Mass Effect 2’s climactic suicide mission, where, unless you’ve completed all of your companions’ loyalty quests and built up those relationships, there was a real chance they would just die, never to return in the trilogy’s final chapter. BioWare built personal, heartbreaking consequences into its stories.

The games BioWare made in its heyday were incredibly influential, but I don’t think there are any games from other developers that tried to build on those successes that truly hit the same level. Even BioWare struggled to capture that same magic in its latter games. But while I don’t think there is anything out there close to the ultimate quality of the Mass Effect trilogy or the first three Dragon Age games, the spirit of BioWare’s best work does live on in the work of the games they inspired.

Just in the last few years, there have been plenty of games that draw straight from BioWare’s well, and there are quite a few projects in the works, including two that look like they could just be new BioWare games. So if you’re hunting for more BioWare in the wake of this terrible news, here are six games to keep in mind.

Baldur’s Gate 3

Now, obviously BioWare made the first two Baldur’s Gate games, so of course they had a massive influence on the third one. But each time I go back to Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3, the influence from Mass Effect and Dragon Age becomes more obvious. The way it introduces your companions and encourages you to build close relationships, for example, is extremely BioWare.

That’s not to mention the complicated web of different romance options in the game. I ended up wooing Lae’Zel, and spent hours building her into a reliable tank to carry me through the late game. And then I made a really bad decision involving a mind flayer, and she just straight up left my party for good. I had to figure out how to adjust my party (and my broken heart) from there.

Earlier in that playthrough, I ended up accidentally killing a potential companion, just because of some choices I made when trying to help some fellow paladins in Act One. It wasn’t until my next playthrough that I even realized they were someone I could recruit, and when I did realize it, I felt awful. In many ways, this chain of action and consequence mirrors what I love so much about Mass Effect 2’s suicide mission, but in Baldur’s Gate 3, it spans the entire game.

Even outside your little web of companions, the choices you make are core to what makes Baldur’s Gate 3 tick. From the outset, the game throws seriously consequential decisions your way that can come back to bite you in the ass depending on what you choose to do with them. Early on, there’s a commune of druids that are having a spat with some visiting Tieflings, and the way you handle that doesn’t just affect the scenario, but begins a domino effect that extends through the whole campaign. There are some pretty dark ways that situation can play out, too, and that’s just one of the dozens of encounters you have to deal with that shapes your character and playthrough.

The Outer Worlds

Most of the time, The Outer Worlds feels like Fallout: New Vegas in space. That’s a pretty natural conclusion, considering it’s developed by New Vegas studio Obsidian Entertainment. But just like Baldur’s Gate 3, The Outer Worlds frequently feels exactly like a BioWare game, thanks to the way it handles its six companions. No matter how many wild situations the game puts you through, the thing that always sticks with me when I go back to The Outer Worlds is how fleshed out the companions are.

All of them have their own distinct needs, leading to side quest chains that will ultimately decide their fate. And, similar to both Mass Effect and Dragon Age’s decision-tallying finales, there’s an entire tree of different endings that change depending on the choices you make. A lot of the questlines that dictate those endings cross over each other too, creating this tangled web of possibilities that can potentially make every playthrough just a little bit different.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered

CD Projekt Red and BioWare go way back, with the original Witcher game being built on the same engine as Neverwinter Nights. So, it’s not surprising that The Witcher games have carried the spirit of BioWare’s approach to storytelling for years. And that feels a little weird to say, because when I think of BioWare, I think of RPGs with a protagonist that you create yourself, and companions that surround you for the entire course of the game – two things The Witcher doesn’t have. In all of the Witcher games you play as Geralt of Rivia and, occasionally, other characters from the books, and the allies you gather aren’t party companions in the BioWare sense of the word.

I go back and forth with myself all the time over which of these games I love the most, but The Witcher 3 is probably the best example of CDPR taking BioWare’s legacy and running with it. You spend most of your time in The Witcher 3 on your own, trying to find Geralt’s adoptive daughter, Ciri. But even though you are by yourself most of the time, there’s a huge focus on doing side missions for supporting characters to build up allegiances ahead of when – spoilers – the villainous Wild Hunt attacks your fortress home of Kaer Morhen. Right off the bat, that leaves a lot of potential for an ending reminiscent of Mass Effect 2’s iconic final mission, but unfortunately not a lot happens if you fail to recruit friends to help defend the Witcher fortress.

Still, The Witcher 3 is a game I’ve played through four or five times, and even though I know there’s not much of a gameplay purpose to recruiting everyone, I still try to get all my friends into that castle in the mountains, even if it just means unlocking dialog that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

Exodus

It’s no secret that for the last decade or so, even before EA shuttered BioWare, things were rough for the studio. A lot of talented people jumped ship, especially in the run-up to Anthem. One of the studios that formed from these talented ex-BioWare folks is Archetype Entertainment, and its first game, Exodus, is due out on April 7 next year.

We’ve actually got the chance to play a bit of Exodus early, and from what I’ve seen and read from my colleagues, it looks as much like a new Mass Effect game as yesterday’s leaked trailer. It’s a squad-based sci-fi RPG, and one of your squadmates is an octopus in a giant mech. That sounds ridiculous, and it is, but just look at the wild and wonderful companions we got in Mass Effect. In the trailer we got at Gamescom, there were scenes that made it look like we’re going to meet their family. So, it at least seems like there’s going to be some suitably wild companion quests in the game.

Crucially, though, Exodus has Drew Karpyshyn as its Narrative Director, and that is more exciting for me than any amount of marketing. This is the guy who wrote the original Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic, two of BioWare’s all-time best games. Karpyshyn leaving BioWare was, as far as I’m concerned, the biggest red flag that Anthem wasn’t going to turn out well, and while I’m not happy that my gut feeling was right there, at least we can see what he’s been working on for the last five years in just a few months.

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn

Just like Exodus, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is another spiritual successor to Mass Effect, although its scope is maybe a little less fantastic. It’s based on, well, The Expanse, the popular hard sci-fi novels and their TV show adaptation, so it already has a deep well of lore to draw from, and there’s a ton of potential there. Probably. I’m going to be honest, I haven’t read any of the books or watched the show, so I don’t really know much about the world of Osiris Reborn.

But I am familiar with Owlcat Games, which has been making some of the biggest cult-favorite RPGs of the last few years. Most recently, it made Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, an excellent, deep CRPG set in Games Workshop’s 40K universe. But while Owlcat knows how to make a rich RPG, Osiris Reborn is the studio’s first foray into making an Action RPG with realtime third-person shooter combat, and its wearing Mass Effect’s influence on its sleeve for all to see.

It does look like Osiris Reborn is going to be a bit more narrow in scope compared to Exodus, with less aliens and time dilation shenanigans, and more of a focus on politics and your own personal struggle. But from everything I’ve seen of the game, it still feels like a Mass Effect game, from the way you choose dialog options to the squad-based combat.

I’m not sure when The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is actually going to arrive. Right now, it just has a vague ‘Q2 2027’ release date on Steam, so hopefully I’m able to get my hands on it before summer. But, even if it does get delayed, maybe it’ll give me a chance to actually watch the show and read some of the novels to brush up on the lore.

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed nearly a year ago at The Game Awards 2025, and at this point we still don’t know much about it. The teaser looks awesome, and shows a jedi on some desolate planet looking angry as she walks into some mysterious room. Not a lot to go on there. So it would usually be a bit too early to really say that this game will carry on the spirit of BioWare, but it just so happens that it’s helmed by Casey Hudson, who directed the original Mass Effect trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic.

In the press release shared by the newly-founded Arcanaut Studios when it announced the game, it says its “crafting an adventure about choice, destiny, and the timeless struggle between light and dark.” And even without seeing any of the gameplay or how conversations with NPCs will look, it sounds like it’s a true successor to Knights of the Old Republic. It’s important to remember that in a lot of ways, Mass Effect was also a spiritual successor to KOTOR, and I expect a lot of the DNA from that game is going to carry over into this new Star Wars RPG.

The catch, though, is that while Osiris Reborn has some shaky ‘Q2 2027’ release date looming over it, I have no idea when Fate of the Old Republic is going to see the light of day. Hudson did come out and respond to people that were memeing about the game not coming out until 2030, where he said it’d be coming out a bit sooner than that. But with a game of this scope, I’d be surprised if we saw it before 2028.

Regardless, the prospect of a big Star Wars RPG directed by Casey Hudson with everything he learned from Mass Effect is exciting. It’s still early, but even though I’ve seen very little, this is probably the one I’m most excited about, it just sucks that it’s the one we have to wait the longest for.

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