Bioware's Anthem Is Officially Cancelled

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After trying to rework the game for over a year, Bioware has announced they're cancelling Anthem, their looter-shooter from 2019.

, Bioware’s maligned attempt at an online looter-shooter, is officially dead after an extensive period of trying to revamp the game.team reads, “In the spirit of transparency and closure we wanted to share that we’ve made the difficult decision to stop our new development work on Anthem .”, which released to mixed reception just a little over two years ago, was always facing an uphill battle.

The product of this incubation period was what became internally known as Anthem NEXT, an attempt to revitalize the game like countless online or continuous games have managed to pull off. TItles like, which has an expansion titled “Next” that drastically overhauled the experience and marked a shift in reception, seemed to be the inspiration behind the move.

While the team made progress on Anthem NEXT, audiences were occasionally updated on how things were coming along, but it seems it was too little too late.

Development on Anthem NEXT continued trucking along through the pandemic up until a few weeks ago, when it was reported by Bloomberg that the team would be presenting the fruits of their labor to EA for approval. If they approved, it seemed the drastically reduced team working onwould be scaled up to rebuild and relaunch the game sometime in the future. If not, the game would be canceled.

The team at Bioware in Austin that was working on Anthem NEXT now appears to be joining the rest of the teams in an attempt to bolster their ongoing projects. “Game development is hard. Decisions like these are not easy.

 

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