Shadow Realms, BioWare's 4v1 online game, officially canceled
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If you're like me, you may not be entirely sure what Shadow Realms is even after the previews - but that answer is now, unfortunately, canceled. BioWare Austin revealed in a post to the game's official blog on Monday that it had officially ended development on the 4-against-1 online game.
Shadow Realms was initially pitched to the public as an episodic multiplayer game which sets four modern-day adventurers against a lone fiend-and-trap-controlling Shadowlord. Invites for its closed alpha were originally meant to start circulating in September, though it was officially delayed in October.
A Kotaku report from January indicated that Shadow Realms was either canceled or being reworked to feature a more traditional single-player campaign, though the studio remained quiet at the time.
Whatever the plan was then, work on the game is over now. It's a shame, but apparently BioWare Austin has plenty of other projects to keep it busy in the meantime: Star Wars: The Old Republic will see a renewed focus leading up to Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens, and the studio will also help out with post-release plans for Dragon Age: Inquisition, the next Mass Effect game, and "other new IP".
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I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.


