{"id":942543,"date":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","slug":"the-edmonton-based-video-game-company-bioware-is-being-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942543\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edmonton-based video game company BioWare is being shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 2:42closed caption<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Edmonton-based gaming company BioWare is shutting its doors for good. Its owner Electronic Arts, said the company is shifting its focus to developing larger shooters and action-adventure titles moving forward. That news meant EA&#8217;s shutting down BioWare and stopping its early development for the next Mass Effect title \u2014 one of the company&#8217;s biggest video games. BioWare has been around for more than 30 years and has made many games considered staples in the video game world. Trent Oster is one of the companies original co-founders and is now the CEO of the gaming company Beamdog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hours agoNewsDuration 2:42closed caption Edmonton-based gaming company BioWare is shutting its doors for good. Its owner Electronic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-942543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942543","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=942543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}