{"id":92059,"date":"2026-10-26T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92059"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:42:46","slug":"heres-another-mass-effect-5-leak-to-break-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92059","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Another Mass Effect 5 Leak To Break Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If last week&#8217;s mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-leaked-mass-effect-5-trailer-is-absolutely-heartbreaking\/\">Mass Effect: Universe trailer leak<\/a> wasn&#8217;t painful enough for you in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ea-shuts-down-dragon-age-mass-effect-studio-bioware\/\">BioWare&#8217;s sudden closure<\/a>, we&#8217;ve gotten yet another taste of The Game That Could Have Been, this time courtesy of award-winning video game composer Austin Wintory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Known for his beautiful and haunting soundtracks for games like Flow, Journey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/sword-of-the-sea-abzu\/\">ABZ\u00db<\/a>, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/sword-of-the-sea-interview-matt-nava\/\">Sword of The Sea<\/a>, John Wick Hex, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/hades-ii\/\">Hades II<\/a>, Wintory was also evidently working on the Mass Effect: Universe soundtrack. From the sounds of things, EA and the now-defunct BioWare were considering having Wintory produce the game&#8217;s OST. And thanks to Wintory, we at least know what the game might have sounded like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project,&#8221; Wintory wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/awintory.bsky.social\/post\/3mysjm7qlyc2p\">a post on Bluesky<\/a>. &#8220;For the last couple years I&#8217;d been in discussion with BioWare &amp; EA to take on the project, and as part of that, I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next. May as well share it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wintory shared the music alongside an image that reads, &#8220;Mass Effect: Universe, the music that might have been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So here you go,&#8221; Wintory added in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If last week&#8217;s mysterious Mass Effect: Universe trailer leak wasn&#8217;t painful enough for you in the wake of BioWare&#8217;s sudden closure, we&#8217;ve gotten yet another taste of The Game That Could Have Been, this time courtesy of award-winning video game composer Austin Wintory.\u00a0 Known for his beautiful and haunting soundtracks for games like Flow, Journey,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":92061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92059","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\/92059"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92062,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92059\/revisions\/92062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}