in light of last week’s news about BioWare’s closure, I felt it was time to share something I haven’t talked about publicly: from April until last week, I was the art director of the Mass Effect franchise.

You could. Some options if you want some ways to show up besides just signing and sharing the petition: 1. N7 Day Play Day: Saturday, Nov 7th - Play Mass Effect LE on Steam (best timeslots are 11 AM–2 PM PST (2–5 PM EST / 7–10 PM GMT / 8–11 PM CET). This will create a big spike to show on SteamDB's charts as proof of demand. Console and EA App players can take screen grabs and videos and post them with the hashtag. - ONLY play what you own. Please don't buy new copies from EA rn, so it doesn't look like the IP is earning just fine while in the vault. 2. DA Day: Fri Dec 4th - DA fans join in to push under the #SaveMassEffect tag and prove demand for ALL of Bioware's worlds to help BOTH franchises. 3. Game Awards: Thurs Dec 10th - Post #SaveMassEffect in the stream chats and on your feeds, especially during EA segments - Follow the Destiny 3 campaign's "play nice" rules: Keep to one message (#SaveMassEffect), No rapid-fire repeats, and don't attack other games, studios, or their fans while they're on screen. 4. Make content - Youtube shorts, Tiktoks, and Reels: favorite moments, characters, "what Mass Effect means to me," or explain the petition. - All using the same hashtag and maybe a link or QR to the petition. 5. Buy ad space - Billboards, especially digital ones which often sell short with affordable time slots. - Youtube, Spotify, Tiktok, Reddit, and other website ads. - Pooling money through a transparent crowdfunding website usually goes further than going solo, since many ad platforms have minimum spending - Use text and original art, not EA logos or official artwork. - Every Ad should point to the petition 6. For Canadian Fans - Contact your MP and representatives, from any party. Bioware was an Edmonton studio, and the closure is a Canadian jobs story too. 7. Support the Devs - Follow and support former BW devs in whatever they do next. We want the people who built ME5 to finish it. 8. Most importantly - Do NOT harass devs, journalists, or other fanbases. Disagree with an article? Answer it with facts, not insults. - Every respectful post makes it harder for anyone to dismiss us. N7s don't give up. Keep fighting. Hold the line.

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"The Music That Might Have Been" Austin Wintory, renowned composer behind games like Journey, releases 22 minutes of early Mass Effect 5 musical drafts from his pitch to compose the game: "Working on Mass Effect 5 was my career's biggest dream project, my white whale. It is my favorite franchise of all time, and for the last couple years I'd been in serious conversations with BioWare and EA to jump in. My suggestion was to treat the original game's masterful Jack Wall/Sam Hulick score as a starting point, and to build on it from there with deeper use of physical, analog synths and a more tightly interwoven use of the orchestra. But a love letter first and foremost (not unlike my approach to the Aliens franchise with Fireteam Elite). As part of the ongoing dialogue, I decided last year (2025) to surprise the folks with an elaborate production: nearly 20 minutes of music, fully recorded and produced with synths, vocals and a large orchestra here in LA. I'd not yet learned any narrative details of what they were planning so this was just pure musical exploration. Receiving the news alongside everyone else that EA had decided to not only cancel the project but shutdown BioWare entirely was a deeply felt loss. It's been hard to see dear friends lose their jobs, and this beloved franchise seemingly vanish forever. Thank you nonetheless to everyone at BioWare and EA's music department for gifting me the chance to dream in your sandbox. It was a privilege to do even that much." Full 22 Minutes ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8s_Mc… #SaveMassEffect