It’s official. Almost exactly two years after its troubled launch, BioWare has cancelled its work on Anthem. Following criticism of Anthem‘s story, repetitive gameplay and lack of endgame content – not to mention some serious bugs – the developer had been in the process of significantly redesigning the game in a project known as Anthem
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We’ve known for a few months now that BioWare is toiling away on an overhaul of some sorts for last year’s release of Anthem. However, we haven’t heard from BioWare in quite some time when it comes to the changes that are being made on the game. That is, until today, when BioWare decided to finally
With many of the year’s biggest gaming events such as E3 and EVO being canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the status of Electronic Arts’ annual EA Play event also seemed to be unlikely to occur. As of today, we now know that EA Play will still be held next month in June, but
Standing as BioWare’s take on a loot shooter, Anthem has struggled to stay up on its own two feet. The game released in a state where it was clear that it was in need of more development time and a better defined sense of direction. There were bugs, crashes, attempts at player protests, delays of
EA just recently released its earnings report, but there was no report on BioWare or any of its titles. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was an obvious success for EA, and other titles like FIFA were listed for their consistency. However, there was no word on BioWare or anything related to the studio. This seems
In a report from Gamesindustry.biz, former Bioware general manager Aaryn Flynn opens up about the difficulties of working with EA’s Frostbite engine. “It was getting harder and harder to make the people that content wanted,” says Flynn at Reboot Develop Red in Banff, Canada. “It was harder and harder to move that content through these
It seems that rumors of Anthem’s death have been greatly exaggerated. In a new report from Kotaku, it is said that BioWare and EA are internally planning an overhaul or soft-reboot of sorts for the third-person loot shooter, Anthem. After releasing earlier this year in February to a litany of issues, BioWare reaffirmed that it would continue working
Today, EA released its financial results for Q2 of Fiscal Year 2020 today, and it seems that the publisher is doing quite well. The company’s net bookings are up 8% year over year and the number of unique players in FIFA and Madden’s Ultimate Team modes, as well as The Sims 4, have seen notable
Once Electronic Arts shows off their stuff in Los Angeles, you know that E3 is here, even though the company isn’t a part of the expo. The E3-tangent EA Play event will return on Saturday, June 8, and EA announced their live stream plans for the day. Per their website, there will be about three
The not so glamorous practice of crunch is one that has reared its head and come into the spotlight more than ever over the past year. Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Anthem specifically have been called out for having particularly rough development periods, though there are many other examples. In a recent interview
EA Play 2019 is upon us bringing EA’s most recent slate of games to the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on June 8 and 9. Today, fan registration for the event is now open giving the public access to the event for free. In order to register for EA Play 2019, just follow the link
As soon as Anthem released back in February, BioWare immediately outlined the future content that would be coming to the game over the next 90 days. After a litany of issues have continued to spring up though with the loot shooter, BioWare has now announced that the future content schedule for Anthem has been delayed. BioWare addressed
Bioware has not been setting the world on fire during the last few years with their recent releases. Mass Effect Andromeda released to mixed reviews and the internet was full videos of weird character animations from the game. Anthem was bashed in reviews due to its repetitive design and certainly did not live up to
Now that Anthem officially released earlier this year, BioWare’s next project that is slated to arrive is that of Dragon Age 4. The fourth installment in the fantasy RPG series was revealed late in 2018 at The Game Awards via a teaser trailer. As of now, there isn’t a whole lot to see of the project, mainly because it’s
Despite a rather rough debut, BioWare and EA’s Anthem still did enough to end up as February 2019’s best-selling game. In the new NPD sales chart tracking video game sales in the United States, Anthem debuted as the top-seller of the month. Anthem has now become the second highest-selling game of 2019 currently only trailing that of Kingdom Hearts
It has been a rough past month for the team at BioWare since launching the studio’s latest title Anthem. Amidst an underwhelming response from critics and a variety of bugs and other issues that have continued to plague the title, Anthem has struggled to find its footing. Despite everything though, BioWare’s General Manager Casey Hudson says that the studio
In its first week of availability, Capcom’s Devil May Cry 5 has unsurprisingly immediately found its way to the top of the weekly UK sales chart for video games. Devil May Cry 5 beat out the rest of the pack in a week that was sparse with new releases. It seems that Capcom’s return to the
At E3 2018, I had the pleasure of previewing Anthem, BioWare’s first foray into the loot shooter genre. Coming out of that small room, I was stoked. I really enjoyed the vertical slice they presented as it showcased its fantastic gameplay, a facet BioWare isn’t really known for excelling in. Even with the lack of
This past weekend, those playing Anthem found themselves getting far more loot than at any other time in the game’s short life. These more frequent loot drops were initially thought to have been a new addition to Anthem but it turns out that the drops were only occurring so often because of a bug. Come Saturday when BioWare
Despite the issues that PS4 players have been having with Anthem recently, it seems it still hasn’t prevented the game from selling well digitally on the platform. PlayStation revealed the top-selling digital games for the month of February today and BioWare’s Anthem came out ahead of the rest of the pack. Bandai Namco’s Jump Force, despite seeing some
Following yesterday’s story about the widespread issues with Anthem on PS4 that have been causing consoles to crash, publisher EA has now responded and is asking players for help. In a post on EA’s website, the publisher said that it is currently looking into problems with Anthem on PS4 but has yet to be able to determine
I love Destiny. I was a player and fan from the get-go during the PlayStation exclusive Alpha all the way up to the launch for Forsaken last year. Destiny is arguably one of this generation’s definitive series, whether you like it or not. It’s fusion of buttery smooth FPS gunplay, MMO-lite design, sholootin’ and a
Despite some recent issues with the game’s PS4 version, EA and BioWare’s Anthem has once again taken home the top spot on the weekly video game sales chart in the UK. In a week of few notable releases, it’s not too surprising that Anthem once again was at the top of the chart. That being said though,
After formally launching a little more than a week ago, EA and BioWare’s Anthem seems to have now encountered the game’s biggest issue so far, at least for those playing on PS4. Over the past day or so, numerous reports have started emerging from Reddit that Anthem is causing their PS4s to crash. Reddit user u/forthemasters kicked off
Anthem has been in the news a lot recently. Some news has been good, however, a majority of the news has been filled with harsh criticisms of the game. Even though the internet has seemingly set this game on fire, I am here to give some PC players a bit of good news if they didn’t know this
There’s been a lot of hubbub about Anthem since it was originally revealed back at E3 2017. As a drastic departure from BioWare’s previous games, many seemed hesitant to see the beloved developer join the ranks of Destiny, The Division, and Warframe with its own take on the loot shooter sub-genre. Despite the concerns though, I was always very much
Logan, Mike, and DualShockers’ own Max Roberts played a whole lot of Anthem this past week and discuss their thoughts on BioWare’s latest. They also talk about a potential next-gen announcement from Microsoft at E3 2019. Oh, and Bowser runs Nintendo now. Here’s everything we discuss in Episode 14: Anthem is not very good ToeJam
The first two weeks since Anthem became fully accessible by certain players have been quite rocky for EA and BioWare. The game was subject to a number of mechanical, structural, and online problems at launch, so the developers have been doing their best to try and fix Anthem since then. The developers are now releasing
Anthem was finally released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One by BioWare and EA on February 22, 2019. While many were looking forward to it, the game’s reception has been rocky to say the least. Anthem currently sits in the 60s across all platforms on Metacritic, with the general user score being even lower. One
As last week’s only major release, it should come as no surprise that EA and BioWare’s Anthem debuted at the top of the sales chart in the UK last week taking down the previous week’s winner Far Cry New Dawn in the process. Despite the victory, the first reported physical sales for Anthem may be raising some
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