{"id":271250,"date":"2025-11-09T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271250\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:09:09","slug":"biowares-cryptic-mass-effect-5-art-is-building-the-games-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271250\/","title":{"rendered":"BioWare’s Cryptic ‘Mass Effect 5 ‘ Art is Building the Game’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every November 7 is N7 Day, a celebration of BioWare\u2019s\u00a0Mass Effect<\/a>\u00a0franchise. While 2025 marked another year without any concrete info or a reveal for the fifth entry, developer BioWare had a piece of art that further lays breadcrumbs for what\u2019s going on in the galaxy.<\/p>\n

On Friday, BioWare revealed the \u201cCivil War\u201d art, which features a squad of Krogan engaging in a chaotic firefight. Krogan are no stranger to fighting with other species (or themselves), but according to project director and franchise executive producer Mike Gamble, this covers a \u201cfuture event<\/a>\u201d set after the original trilogy and potentially Mass Effect Andromeda\u2014which itself is set centuries after the trilogy in a whole other galaxy. Gamble<\/a> then went on to say that \u201ceverything you\u2019ve seen, from all N7 days, will connect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The studio\u2019s been teasing the new entry for years, mostly with concept art indicating change across the cosmos, like the Milky Way galaxy rebuilding after the Reaper war and the Andromeda galaxy\u2019s denizens discovering more Remnant technology. In 2023, we got a short 30-second video featuring an unknown helmeted character in a spiffy N7 jacket walking through a room and heading outside somewhere,\u00a0and they look to be this game\u2019s protagonist or, at the very least, someone with a key role\u2014they\u2019re prominently featured in artwork from that same year, which also features various aliens within their jacket.<\/p>\n

Along with the Krogan art, BioWare affirmed that it\u2019s currently \u201cheads-down and focused exclusively on Mass Effect. We have a lot of universe to cover, lots of features to build, and lots of romances to figure out. We\u2019re excited by what we\u2019re building, and we promise you: when we\u2019re ready, it\u2019ll be a lot of fun to show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever\u00a0Mass Effect 5\u00a0is, BioWare seems to have a plan in mind, and it also involves the Prime Video show<\/a>. Time to wait for more info about both and see which one comes out first.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every November 7 is N7 Day, a celebration of BioWare\u2019s\u00a0Mass Effect\u00a0franchise. While 2025 marked another year without any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92448,49,48,124415,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-271250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bioware","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mass-effect","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}