BioWare shut down and new Mass Effect cancelled two months after EA sale

The saddest thing is how inevitable this was (EA)

Exactly what everyone thought would happen after EA’s sale to private investors has happened, with Dragon Age developer BioWare to close and major layoffs at the makers of Skate.

When a bigger company buys a smaller one it almost always leads to layoffs, but the sale of EA to private investors – including the Saudi Arabian government and a US-based firm founded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner – was always going to be particularly bad.