A new report has claimed that the main reason EA shut down BioWare and cancelled Mass Effect: Universe was because of the opportunity to work with Disney on Star Wars Battlefront 3.
2026 has been a rough year for gaming as a whole, but easily one of the most gutting bits of news to happen so far is the surprise death of BioWare. Although the Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer has had some undeniably shaky times over the past two console generations, the promise of a new Mass Effect made it seem like it had a lot more stability and time.
Of course, that's not what ended up happening, as both BioWare and the since-leaked Mass Effect: Universe were shut down out of nowhere earlier this month. It didn't take a genius to figure out that EA's expensive buyout was partly to blame, but it turns out that there's something much more depressing we can point fingers at - Battlefront 3.
Earlier today, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier shared a report that details why exactly BioWare was shut down by EA. Schreier claims that the "main factor" was the opportunity to work with Lucasfilm on the as-yet unannounced Star...
