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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 12h

4 weeks until N7 Day. #MassEffect

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 2d

It looks like someone is trying to stir up some buzz ahead of the N7 Day. 🧐

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 6d

New omni-tool, who dis?

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 6d

October 4, 2005

20 years ago today, BioWare revealed their next-gen RPG 'Project SFX', officially titled Mass Effect at Xbox's X05 event in Amsterdam.

It also gave us our first look at Commander Shepard's original model.

#MassEffect

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Mark Darrah @markdarrah.bsky.social · 9d

If it was happening when I was consulting, I wouldn't expect I would have heard anything so I wouldn't exclude that time period

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 9d

BioWare veteran Mark Darrah has discussed the $55bn private acquisition of EA and what the future holds for the RPG studio, suggesting it could be sold to pay off debt. https://bit.ly/3IDtWl0

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 9d

On YouTube, @markdarrah.bsky.social has stated that he was unaware about the EA talks to potentially sell BioWare, during his tenure there.

He was consultant for Dragon Age Veilguard development, which narrows down the timeline.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 10d

Sony aims to become 'entertainment trading house' with IP pickups

➡️ asia.nikkei.com/business/com...

Sony has invested almost $13B into IP over the last seven years through buying, developing and combining businesses, seeking to synergize across games, film/TV, anime, and music.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

Per Insider Gaming, there were talks to sell BioWare at some point.

However they left it vague on when this had happened and it's unclear what happened to these talks.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

Reminder that Mass Effect TV show will also start filming in Q4 2026.

It would be bizarre to kill off the game while still pushing the show with Amazon.

It seems likely that Next Mass Effect might still be safely set for future release.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

Next Mass Effect is still very much in active development, by April 2026 it should be deep in production, a potential security to keep studio intact.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

There is a major concern within BioWare studio that they will be first to suffer big cuts after new owners take over.

However nothing official will be set before April 2026 and EA sale won't come into effect before Q1 2027.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

Per Insider Gaming, BioWare staff is worried about studio's future due to EA being sold.

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BioWare Staff Worried About Studio's Future

According to a number of staff, many within BioWare are worried about it's future after the sale of Electronic Arts (EA) becomes official.

insider-gaming.com

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

In a follow-up comment, he mentions that it is unlikely that BioWare goes independent, but Sony or Microsoft could be potential buyers. In another comment he also mentions Amazon and Disney.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 10d

Mark Darrah's commentary on the $55 billion EA deal.

Owing to the 5% interest rate, he believes that it's more likely that IPs and studios may be sold off, as shutting them down only cuts costs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNGc...

EA Goes Private For 55 Billion?!

YouTube video by Mark Darrah on Games

www.youtube.com

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 11d

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 11d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 11d

CEO of EA, home to studios like Maxis and Bioware, claims company's values will "remain unchanged" following sale to Saudi government, investment firms

www.eurogamer.net/ceo-of-ea-sa...

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 11d

EA announces agreement to be acquired by group of private investors PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners (Jared Kushner) for $55 billion

➡️ news.ea.com/press-releas...

“The Board carefully evaluated this opportunity and concluded it delivers compelling value for stockholders", said EA.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 14d

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes?

EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep.

Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like?

EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick.

kotaku.com/report-saudi...

Saudi Arabia & Other Investors Nearing $50 Billion Deal To Buy EA

The massive deal might be announced officially as soon as next week according to sources with knowledge of the situation

kotaku.com

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 14d

WSJ: Videogame Giant Electronic Arts Nears Roughly $50 Billion Deal to Go Private

www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Exclusive | Videogame Giant Electronic Arts Nears Roughly $50 Billion Deal to Go Private

Investors including Silver Lake are eyeing a deal that would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever.

www.wsj.com

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 21d

Reminds me of the strangest ME3 promo (timetag): youtu.be/EYh4NugSghE?...

Mass Effect 3 - Better with Kinect

YouTube video by Mass Effect

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 21d

This reminds me of my favorite Mass Effect 3 fan story, when someone was at the Geth/Quarian choice, and their partner said, "What happens to Tali if you upload the code?", and Xbox Kinect heard "Upload the code," and made that choice for the player, which, spoilers, does not go well for Tali.

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 21d

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engadget article screenshot: ...skipped ahead by several steps and continued glitching. The chef told Zuckerberg that the "WiFi might be messed up" in the venue.

Bosworth said, however, that it was not the case. Apparently, when the chef said "Hey Meta, start Live AI," it fired up every single Meta Ray-Ban's Live AI in the building. And since the event was all about the company's smart glasses, there were a lot of them in the venue at the time. The company had also routed Live AI's traffic to its dev server to isolate it, but it ended up routing the Live AI traffic of everyone's glasses in the building to its server. "We DDoS'd ourselves, basically," he said. He continued that it didn't happen at rehearsal, because there weren't as many people wearing the glasses when they tested it out.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 23d

A Doug Jones-type would make a great salarian, just saying.

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 23d

- a male between 40 and 60 years old who "needs to be a creature or character actor like Doug Jones."
- a male lead (between 30 and 49 years old) who will play a fighter/soldier type character that requires a "wrestler-type physicality."

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 23d

Actually my read on this is that it doesn't seem like they're adapting the trilogy?

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Mass Effect News @masseffectnews.bsky.social · 23d

There's some information about casting roles for the Mass Effect TV show.

The original source is locked behind a Patreon paywall, and I disagree with the conclusions of the article, but here it is: thedirect.com/article/mass...

Read on for my thoughts.

Mass Effect TV Series Casting Reveals 5 Characters From Video Game

Amazon Prime Video's Mass Effect series received an exciting casting update that will grab gamers' attention!

thedirect.com

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