Anthem

Anthem fan gets BioWare's looter shooter running again without EA's dead servers only days after shutdown

Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing"

"It took Anthem a very long time to admit to itself that it was a looter shooter," BioWare veteran says

GOG director fears regulation for live-service shutdowns might lead to "fewer cool games for gamers"

Stop Killing Games says Anthem's scrapped plans for local servers is what the initiative is all about

Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround

Anthem "did permanent damage to the careers of a lot of game devs" says Dragon Age veteran

Anthem fans say goodbye to BioWare's looter shooter on its server shutdown day, mourning the "potential" that was lost

EA hits like Battlefield 4 and The Sims 4 were given time to bounce back from rough launches because they were "too big to fail," whereas with BioWare's Anthem, it wasn't "a given that it was going to be that big"

Anthem lead says it deserved bad reviews, and Mass Effect and Dragon Age had better stories in part because you weren't playing with three "randos" who made everything "worse"

BioWare realized late in Anthem's development that "this game was coming in on fire" after EA told the devs "we were targeting a game in the 70s" on Metacritic

Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling spreads" across all players when they split up

"Bankrupt EA" was on the list of fears at BioWare as it weighed up Mass Effect servers, says former exec: "There's a point at which you are optimizing for an unlikely or virtually unfathomable situation”

Former BioWare producer says a lot of Anthem's problems "come from a misunderstanding about multiplayer games," which the Mass Effect leadership team weren't equipped to deal with

BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add "really crazy things" without the broken part

As Anthem faces shutdown amid Stop Killing Games movement, producer says maybe we want to "sacrifice some things in order to get it so that games don't just vanish one day"

Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"