{"id":254242,"date":"2025-11-10T03:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254242\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:54:07","slug":"ea-mass-effect-5-is-still-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254242\/","title":{"rendered":"EA: &#8220;Mass Effect 5&#8221; Is Still Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ea-mass-effect-5-is-still-happening.jpg\" data-caption=\"BioWare\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ea-mass-effect-5-is-still-happening.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ea-mass-effect-5-is-still-happening\"\/><\/a>BioWare<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gamble, the executive producer on the \u201cMass Effect\u201d game franchise, says the fifth title in the series is still very active.<\/p>\n<p>The first teaser for the title was released five years ago in December 2020. Since then, there\u2019s been next to no real updates beyond basic discussion about this being a continuation of the original trilogy rather than another \u2018Andromeda\u2019-style affair.<\/p>\n<p>EA, which is saddled with $20 billion in debt, has downsized BioWare\u2019s development team in recent years following the shipping of \u201cDragon Age: The Veilguard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More recently came concerns over EA\u2019s impending sale to private investors, a group that includes Saudi Arabia\u2019s PIF and Affinity Partners which is owned by Trump\u2019s nephew Jared Kushner, and how such conservative ownership will impact games famous for the way characters can build romances with other characters regardless of gender.<\/p>\n<p>Offering an update on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bioware.com\/2025\/11\/07\/n7-day-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a>, Gamble aimed to dispel any talk of potential troubles:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike you, we\u2019ve heard the rumors lately.  You\u2019ve made it clear you care deeply about what\u2019s next. So let\u2019s start by setting the record straight: the next Mass Effect game is in development, and EA and BioWare remain committed to telling more stories in this universe.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, the last few years have been an incredibly busy time at BioWare. But currently, the team is heads-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.<\/p>\n<p>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. Until then, thank you for your patience because y\u2019all are thirsty for news and I see you looking for secret meaning in my tweets (okay, sometimes they have secret meaning).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, it\u2019s expected that the next \u201cMass Effect\u201d won\u2019t appear on the current generation of consoles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BioWare Mike Gamble, the executive producer on the \u201cMass Effect\u201d game franchise, says the fifth title in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94966,59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-254242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}