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BioWare vet Gaider says there was friction between Dragon Age and Mass Effect teams Former BioWare lead writer and Dragon Age creator David Gaider has said that the teams working on the company’s biggest franchises were not best of friends.  In a thread on BlueSky, the development vet said that these problems became readily apparent when staff from both IP were merged to work on the troubled Anthem.  “The thing you need to know about BioWare is that for a long time it…

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Report: BioWare is now less than 100 people strong Developer BioWare now boasts fewer than 100 members of staff.  That’s according to a report from Bloomberg , which claims that the number of workers employed by the studio has more than halved in the last two years. Back then, BioWare boasted over 200 members of staff.  Part of this rapid decline in headcount was the news last week that the company was laying off some staff as it slimme…

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BioWare sheds staff following Dragon Age: The Veilguard EA’s BioWare studio is cutting staff as it focuses on the next entry in the Mass Effect series.  In a post on the developer’s website , general manager Gary McKay ( pictured ) wrote that it has moved some of its employees to other teams within Electronic Arts. There’s no figure put on how many staff are affected by this, but IGN reports that a “smaller number” of devs from the Dragon Age tea…

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Dragon Age director Busche has left EA EA veteran Corinne Busche is departing the company and developer BioWare.  The news was originally reported by Jeff Grubb, with Busche herself c onfirming the news to Eurogamer in a statement . She had worked at Electronic Arts for 18 years, latterly as a game director on 2024’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Busche said she is leaving EA for an opportunity that she “couldn’t turn down” but ther…