Mass Effect's Amazon series is reportedly continuing after BioWare shutdown, which'll make an uncomfortable gravestone for the studio's work
Here lies BioWare's sci-fi opera, you can tell because we put 'Mass Effect' on the gravestone.
BioWare has announced the closure of its studio, which has significant implications for the future of the Mass Effect series. While the studio's shutdown does not automatically rule out further Mass Effect content, the next game in the franchise has been cancelled, and there is no indication that EA, the parent company, will produce any non-sports, non-Sims, non-shooter games in the near future.
Prime Video had been developing a TV series based on the Mass Effect universe since 2024, and sources close to the project confirm that the show will still proceed. The series will be set after the original trilogy, avoiding the awkwardness of featuring Commander Shepherd interacting with games created by a studio that has largely disbanded.
This new direction for Mass Effect appears to be an attempt to make the most of the IP before it is completely depleted, with the final product bearing little resemblance to the work of the studio that originally developed it.
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