BioWare Betting It All On Mass Effect 5 After Even More Layoffs

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BioWare Betting It All On Mass Effect 5 After Even More Layoffs
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The RPG studio is down to a 'core team' after leaving Dragon Age: The Veilguard behind

What’s left of BioWare, the renowned RPG powerhouse behind beloved franchises like Dragon Age , Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the original Baldur’s Gate games? It’s a hard question to answer in 2025 after multiple rounds of layoffs and restructurings as the studio pivots between the character-driven stories fans love and the live-service gaming models investors want.

Now that The Veilguard has shipped, the studio’s full focus is Mass Effect.” Back in June, BioWare offloaded its MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic to an outside developer and laid of some of the staff associated with maintaining the ongoing multiplayer RPG. A few months later, the studio laid off 50 more employees, including some longtime veterans of the team. At the time, it was believed that this left BioWare with a rough headcount of maybe 200.

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