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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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Half-Life 3's Rumored Codename Accidentally Mentioned by Valve Developer En Valve-udvikler nævnte ved en fejl kodenavnet HLX under en konference om lyd i computerspil. HLX har i flere år været sat i forbindelse med det rygtede Half-Life 3, men omtalen bekræfter ikke, at projektet faktisk er det næste spil i serien. Episoden tyder dog på, at HLX fortsat er under aktiv udvikling hos Valve.

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GTA 6 Is Almost Here: Trade in Your Old Console and Save on an Upgrade at PayMore Grand Theft Auto 6 udkommer ifølge artiklen den 19. november 2026 til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S, men ikke til PlayStation 4 eller Xbox One. PayMore tilbyder frem til 20. november et ekstra gavekort på 10 dollar ved indbytning af en gammel konsol i deltagende amerikanske butikker. Artiklen beskriver samtidig spillets tilbagevenden til Vice City og de to hovedpersoner Jason og Lucia.

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Amazon Is Selling Magic: The Gathering's Rare Foundations Commander Decks for MSRP — but Only if You Buy the Complete Five Deck Bundle Amazon har igen Foundations Commander-decks fra Magic: The Gathering på lager til den vejledende pris, men kun som en samlet pakke med alle fem mono-farvede decks. Pakken koster 149,95 dollar, mens enkelte decks fortsat kan være markant dyrere hos forhandlere. Især Tramplesaurus Rex sælges til overpris, som artiklen fraråder at betale.

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World of Warcraft: Forever Breathes New Life Into an Iconic Classic - IGN Blizzard lancerer World of Warcraft: Forever den 4. november som en nyfortolkning af det klassiske MMORPG. Spillet bevarer blandt andet niveaugrænsen på 60 og den langsommere progression, men tilføjer over 1.000 quests, nye områder, en spilbar race, klasser, dungeons og raids. Et nyt Legacy-system giver kontobaserede belønninger, mens grafik, lys og andre visuelle effekter er blevet opdateret.

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Mass Effect 5 Trailer Leaks Online With 'Mass Effect: Universe' Title, Reveals Returning Characters and Much More En intern trailer fra det aflyste Mass Effect 5 er lækket online under titlen “Mass Effect: Universe”. Optagelserne viser blandt andet rumrejser, en galaksekortfunktion, velkendte arter og en ældre Liara T’Soni. BioWare arbejdede på spillet frem til EA’s beslutning om at lukke studiet og standse udviklingen, angiveligt efter flere års produktion.

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Alan Wake 2: Deluxe Edition for PS5 Drops to Its Lowest Price Ever, Just in Time for Halloween Alan Wake 2: Deluxe Edition til PlayStation 5 er sat ned hos Amazon til omkring 30 dollar, hvilket ifølge IGN er den laveste pris hidtil. Udgaven indeholder grundspillet, udvidelserne Night Springs og The Lake House samt en remasteret digital version af det originale Alan Wake. Spillet kombinerer psykologisk survival horror, tredjepersonsaction og filmiske live-action-sekvenser.

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Dispatch Celebrates First Anniversary With Live Concert, Commentary Track, Mobile Version, and More Merch AdHoc Studio fejrer étårsdagen for spillet Dispatch med nye funktioner i Deluxe Edition, herunder kommentarspor og storyboard-visning. Spillet udkommer også til iOS og Android den 9. december 2026, hvor de første fire episoder kan spilles gratis. Samtidig lanceres nyt merchandise og et engangskoncert i Hollywood med musik fra spillet.

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3 Very Different Survival Games from indie.io Featured in Steam Next Fest - IGN IGN fremhæver tre meget forskellige overlevelsesspil fra indie.io, som kan prøves under Steam Next Fest. Coal Duty er et samarbejdsbaseret horrorspil i en kulmine, HumanitZ er et zombiebaseret sandkassespil med en stor opdatering, og Mayday: The Survival Island handler om at overleve på et øhav efter et skibsforlis. To af spillene har gratis demoer, mens Coal Duty udkommer i Early Access 27. oktober.

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Mass Effect 5 Dev Says BioWare Saw What Larian and CD Projekt Had Done in the RPG Space and Was Taking the Franchise to ‘The Next Level’ En tidligere BioWare-udvikler fortæller, at det aflyste Mass Effect 5 blev udviklet med inspiration fra Larians og CD Projekts succesfulde rollespil. Holdet ønskede at løfte serien til et nyt niveau med større spillerfrihed og flere valg, samtidig med at forbindelsen til den oprindelige trilogi blev bevaret. EA har siden lukket projektet og BioWare.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Lead Writer Mourns Death of BioWare as Farewell Post Leaves Out MMO Hovedforfatteren på Star Wars: The Old Republic, Caitlin Sullivan Kelly, har kritiseret BioWares afskedserklæring for ikke at nævne MMO-spillet. Spillet blev udviklet af BioWare, udgivet i 2011 og drevet af studiet frem til overdragelsen til Broadsword i 2023. Kelly kalder udeladelsen hjerteskærende og fremhæver spillets betydning for studiets økonomi og historie.

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Secretlab Just Dropped Flaming Hot K/DA Editions of Its Best Gaming Chair and Desk Models Secretlab har lanceret en ny Firestarter-kollektion i samarbejde med den virtuelle League of Legends-gruppe K/DA. Kollektionen omfatter specialudgaver af gamingstolen Titan Evo og skrivebordet Magnus Pro med flammedesign og symboler for gruppens medlemmer. Produkterne kan købes nu fra henholdsvis 644 og 978 dollar. Lanceringen følger K/DA’s comeback med en ny single, EP og optræden ved Worlds.

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EA Never Knew What It Had With BioWare, and After a Live-Service Disaster and a Compromised Dragon Age, It’s All of Our Loss IGN’s Matt Purslow argumenterer i denne kommentar for, at EA’s fokus på massemarkedet, live-service-spil og mikrotransaktioner har svækket BioWare og bidraget til studiets tilbagegang. Artiklen gennemgår BioWares udvikling efter opkøbet i 2007 samt problemerne omkring Anthem og Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Den sætter samtidig udviklingen ind i en bredere kritik af EAs behandling af tidligere opkøbte studier.

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Skate Studio Also Hit With Cuts as Scope of EA's Mass Layoffs Becomes Clearer Flere medarbejdere hos Full Circle, studiet bag det seneste Skate, er blevet afskediget som led i Electronic Arts’ omfattende nedskæringer. EA vil fortsætte arbejdet på spillet med et mindre og mere fokuseret team, mens omkring 400 stillinger samlet forsvinder i koncernen. Fyringerne kommer efter en tidligere nedskæringsrunde hos Full Circle i februar og lukningen af BioWare.

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Gran Turismo Limited-Edition PS5 DualSense Controller Is Up for Preorder in Celebration of the Series 30th Anniversary Sony har åbnet forudbestillinger på en limited edition-DualSense-controller til PlayStation 5, som markerer Gran Turismos 30-års jubilæum. Controlleren har et afdæmpet racerdesign med kulfiberlignende overflade og jubilæumsdetaljer, men ellers samme funktioner som den almindelige DualSense. Den koster 84,99 dollar og udkommer 10. december. Den kan også bruges med pc, Mac og mobile enheder.

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First GTA 6 TV Commercial Strips Out Steamy Shower Scenes, but Shows More of Lucia's Fancy Hair Tech GTA 6 har fået sin første tv-reklame, som hovedsageligt genbruger spillets lanceringstrailer. Reklameversionen fjerner tre scener med Jason og Lucia i brusebadet, mens enkelte andre klip er gjort lidt længere. Xbox-logoet og omtalen af Xbox-platformene er også fjernet, hvilket fremhæver Sonys markedsføringssamarbejde med Rockstar, selv om spillet udkommer til både PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series-konsoller.

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BioWare Reportedly Had a Mass Effect 5 Trailer Ready to Go Before EA Canceled the Game and Shut the Studio Down Et allerede færdigt trailerudkast til Mass Effect 5 var angiveligt klar, før EA annullerede spillet og lukkede BioWare. Ifølge IGN bekræfter kilder, at traileren eksisterede, selv om EA beskrev projektet som værende i en tidlig udviklingsfase. Omkring 50 medarbejdere arbejdede på spillet, da studiet blev lukket, mens BioWares Austin-afdeling fortsat skal understøtte andre EA-spil.

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DevGAMM Awards 2026 Reveals 70 Nominated Games For Its 3rd Annual Show: See the Full List DevGAMM Awards har offentliggjort de 70 nominerede spil til prisuddelingens tredje udgave. Spillene kommer fra 25 lande, og over halvdelen er udviklet af hold på højst fem personer. Vinderne kåres ved en ceremoni i Lissabon den 18. november, hvor der uddeles 100.000 dollar i pengepræmier samt yderligere sponsorerede priser.

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'Regions Are Cheating and We Need to Address It' — Wardogs Dev Says Region Locking Is About 'Protecting the Largest Amount of Players' Bulkhead indfører regionlåsning i multiplayer-spillet Wardogs ved at begrænse spillere til servere med en maksimal ping på 175 millisekunder. Udvikleren siger, at ændringen skal beskytte flertallet mod snyd, men spillere, især i Asien, kritiserer løsningen for at ramme legitime brugere og forhindre dem i at spille med venner på tværs af regioner. Selskabet kalder tiltaget en midlertidig løsning.

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'Capcom Takes This Matter Extremely Seriously' — Resident Evil Dev Issues Phishing Warning After Data Breach Hits Over 11 Million Customer Accounts Capcom oplyser, at et databrud i virksomhedens Capcom ID-tjeneste har berørt 11,7 millioner e-mailadresser globalt. Oplysninger om kontooprettelse, seneste login og klient-IP-adresser blev tilgået, mens 196 konti fik ændret loginadgangskode uden tilladelse. Capcom siger, at brugernes egne adgangskoder og kreditkortoplysninger ikke blev lækket, men advarer om mulige phishingforsøg.

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Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box Down to $59.99 at Amazon — if You Can Secure an Invite to Buy Amazon tilbyder Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box til 59,99 dollar, hvilket er markant under den aktuelle markedspris på over 120 dollar. Købet kræver dog en invitation, som Amazon udvælger blandt interesserede kunder. Artiklen beskriver også Best Buys tilsvarende invitationsordning for Prismatic Evolutions samt nogle af de mest værdifulde kort i 30-års-jubilæumssættet.

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'Sci-Fi Wonder for This Next Chapter' — Former Mass Effect 5 Writers Speak Out After EA Shuts Down BioWare Tidligere forfattere på det aflyste Mass Effect 5 har udtalt sig, efter EA lukkede BioWare og stoppede arbejdet på spillet. Forfatterne Catherynne M. Valente og Derek Künsken fortæller, at de arbejdede på historie, figurer og univers gennem flere år, og at projektet var lovende. BioWares fremtidige intellektuelle ejendomme kan muligvis blive solgt, men intet er besluttet.

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EA Never Knew What It Had With BioWare, and After a Live-Service Disaster and a Compromised Dragon Age, It’s All of Our Loss

IGN’s Matt Purslow argumenterer i denne kommentar for, at EA’s fokus på massemarkedet, live-service-spil og mikrotransaktioner har svækket BioWare og bidraget til studiets tilbagegang. Artiklen gennemgår BioWares udvikling efter opkøbet i 2007 samt problemerne omkring Anthem og Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Den sætter samtidig udviklingen ind i en bredere kritik af EAs behandling af tidligere opkøbte studier.

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This is an IGN opinion piece from Matt Purslow, who has played BioWare's RPGs for almost his entire life. "My hotel's as clean as an elven arse!" remains one of his favourite NPC voice lines almost 30 years later.

In 2012 and 2013, EA was named the “Worst Company in America” in public polls held by Consumerist, beating out the likes of big oil, big pharma, and any other big corpo you can think of. During those years, the mega-publisher released Dead Space 3, Crysis 3, and Mass Effect 3. Each of this trio of three-quels is in some way responsible for the company’s reputation at the time. Crysis was considered a rote follow-up, Dead Space’s microtransactions were seen as greedy, and disappointment over the finale of Mass Effect’s trilogy-concluding chapter provoked more outrage than many political scandals.

The idea that the early 2010s could be considered some of EA’s better years, then, should be absurd. But here we are. The colossal company’s latest 400 layoffs follow three subsequent years of severe cuts, including last year’s 300 staff, the cancellation of a Titanfall game, and the shuttering of Cliffhanger Games and its Black Panther project. In the surviving projects we can see just what EA values: annualised sports games with huge microtransaction revenue and live-service shooters with huge microtransaction revenue.

Video games at triple-A scale are, of course, a business. An industry. A means to make profit. Its role as a financial machine is why EA is now owned by a group of investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. But it's never felt more obvious that the suits who just deleted BioWare from a spreadsheet don’t care about the ‘arts’ in Electronic Arts. How far the company has fallen since 1983, when it asked “Can a computer make you cry?” in an advertisement promoting its creative ambition.

The more cynical parts of the internet see BioWare’s shuttering as something of a mercy, a failing studio put out to pasture. The putting down of a sick dog. And it’s true that the studio’s best days were seemingly behind it – its three most recent projects, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, were all disappointments to varying degrees. But while those most cynical voices accuse those within BioWare of betraying the studio’s roots, I think the issues lie squarely with EA. As IGN contributor Jeremy Peel wrote on social media yesterday, “I’ve chatted to enough veterans to know that BioWare succeeded despite EA’s ownership, not because of it. The studio steered a ship with a saboteur in the engine room.”

That’s not to say BioWare hasn’t made mistakes of its own. During an interview with IGN earlier this year, veteran Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah explained that Anthem was pitched internally as ‘the future of storytelling’ by Casey Hudson, the celebrated director of the Mass Effect trilogy and BioWare’s general manager through much of Anthem’s development. He remembers the mechsuit shooter being conceived as “What if we said it’s still BioWare, but it’s completely not BioWare?”

But is that attitude born of wanting to disintegrate years of RPG pedigree, or an attempt to secure survival within a ruthless publisher whose primary motivator is extraordinary money, not sustainable art?

BioWare was constantly at the mercy of a parent company that had no interest in (and probably zero understanding of) role-playing games.

“They wanted every franchise to be a billion-dollar franchise”, Darrah said, noting EA’s internal goals for every franchise were to hit a minimum 40% profit margin, and for that to equate to $50 million in total profit. Even in its prime, BioWare wasn’t well positioned to achieve that. RPGs, particularly the grand, cinematic ones that made up BioWare’s most beloved era, are not cheap to produce. And, compared to the mass popularity of EA Sports’ annualised output, they’re quite niche.

Since it was acquired by EA in 2007, BioWare was constantly at the mercy of a parent company that had no interest in (and probably zero understanding of) role-playing games. You can see the battle in each successive game post-Mass Effect, with the crunchy RPG systems of Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights stripped out in favour of more action, more linearity, more streamlined cinematic gloss. And, for a short while, that battle between EA’s demand for mass market products and BioWare’s desire to build first-class RPGs resulted in something special. Mass Effect 2 is one of the greatest games ever made because it balances blockbuster action with the deep character development and meaningful choices of the best D&D session.

But post Dragon Age: Inquisition, things began to fall apart. The disasters of Anthem and The Veilguard are well documented to be rooted in the difficult relationship between a single-player RPG studio and its Ultimate Team revenue-obsessed parent. And so after all it went through, it’s a miracle that The Veilguard even exists. But its fate as a bitter disappointment was, sadly, practically assured from the moment it began its troubled journey.

If BioWare was an isolated incident, it could be chalked up to EA mismanaging a studio that specialised in games it simply didn’t understand. But BioWare is only the latest in a long, long line of casualties. We can rewind as far back as the 1990s and find studios that it acquired, muddled, and eventually shuttered. Origin Systems. Bullfrog Productions. Kesmai. When EA acquired BioWare in 2007, it took on Pandemic Studios at the same time – the creators of the iconic Star Wars: Battlefront and destructive Mercenaries. Two years later it was gone.

But closure is simply one of the ugly fates that EA bestows on those it chews up. Over time, many studios are rebranded, reshuffled, and ingested into the big machine. Medal of Honor creator DreamWorks Interactive became part of EA in 2000 and within a few years it had been merged with what was left of Command & Conquer creator Westwood Studios (itself bought in 1998, closed in 2003). Renamed EA Los Angeles, the developer was put to work on Lord of the Rings and C&C strategy games, before then being re-badged as Danger Close and tasked with rebooting Medal of Honor to compete with Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare – an impossible task that sealed its miserable fate.

A studio is much, much more than a group of bodies to be thrown at whatever project is in need of staffing, to develop according to whatever trend is profitable, and that should be respected.

That reduction of studios to simple labour continues. Just this year we’ve seen Criterion, the racing games specialist EA bought in 2004, transformed into “A Battlefield Studio” – destined to work alongside three other studios on a multiplayer shooter franchise that’s a million miles away from its Burnout and Need for Speed roots. Only the very lucky (or very profitable) get to be ingested by EA and retain their personality, it seems.

I recently saw a Reddit thread that emphasised the importance of treating game developers like music bands rather than software companies. The OP suggested that, like a band, the original creatives are the studio and any change in staff or leadership equals the effective end of it. That’s perhaps a little too strict a definition for me personally, but I believe there’s more to that concept than individual people – like a band, a studio is a mantra. A creative philosophy. An artistic dream. Beneath all the HR paperwork and budget spreadsheets, studios have soul and purpose. That’s something that can be shared among new hires, passed down through generations, but it’s something that needs to be preserved. A studio is much, much more than a group of bodies to be thrown at whatever project is in need of staffing, to develop according to whatever trend is profitable, and that should be respected.

Sadly, that is not how the gears of private equity-financed corporations spin. And so just as BioWare wasn’t the first, I don’t expect it to be the last. As part of its plans for its next chapter, EA explained that while Motive’s Iron Man game and the third Star Wars Jedi are still in development, "beyond that, we will concentrate our efforts on fewer simultaneous, large-scale projects." That sure sounds like EA’s interest in action-adventure games is dwindling, at least as far as internal development goes (its publishing of Hazelight’s co-op adventures, It Takes Two and Split Fiction, has proven commercially and critically successful, and so that kind of thing may continue). Respawn is already confirmed to be collaborating with DICE on a “future project”, so it feels only a matter of time until all of EA’s shooter studios are combined to become a homogeneous whole. And with that consolidation, EA will have finally streamlined into a company focused on annualised sports games with huge microtransaction revenue and live-service shooters with huge microtransaction revenue.

“Can a computer make you cry?” the company asked in 1983. Yes, but not in the way that advert intended.

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