{"id":91741,"date":"2026-10-21T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91741"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:48:10","slug":"ea-shuts-down-dragon-age-mass-effect-studio-bioware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91741","title":{"rendered":"EA Shuts Down Dragon Age, Mass Effect Studio BioWare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a shocking turn of events, publisher Electronic Arts has shut down legendary RPG studio BioWare, laying off 400 employees in the process, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-10-21\/electronic-arts-to-cut-400-jobs-shut-down-bioware?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MjYwMjI4MCwiZXhwIjoxNzkzMjA3MDgwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTjlPUkZLSVVQU08wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.BPLdBqixyN47DHZvtrfHyRsF_Np3UKIKzGi_WqMA-I4&amp;leadSource=article-gifting\">Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jasonschreier.bsky.social\"><\/a>Jason Schreier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story is developing&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking turn of events, publisher Electronic Arts has shut down legendary RPG studio BioWare, laying off 400 employees in the process, according to Bloomberg&#8217;s Jason Schreier. This story is developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":91743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91744,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91741\/revisions\/91744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}