Anthem News – Page 8

May 9, 2018

Anthem – EA’s Quarterly Earnings Report Shows Anthem Primed for Q1 2019 Release

Anthem was originally to have released in Q4 2018 but EA delayed the release (though said it wasn’t actually a delay…) to Q1 2018. In the most recent investor’s call, EA is still targeting Fiscal Year Q4 2019 for Anthem. This is the equivalent of Q1 2019 (much easier to write too!) with dates that span January 1st to March 31st, 2019. Whether they can make it remains to be seen, but fans are expecting to see EA trot Anthem out at this year’s E3.

April 16, 2018

Anthem – ‘If We Play It Right, Anthem Will Feel Very Distinctly BioWare”

BioWare’s Managing Director Casey Hudson has created a new blog on the company’s official site to provide readers with news and information about Anthem and “the games that will follow”. In this inaugural post, Hudson provides a bit of his background as well as a look ahead at Anthem and how the studio is working very hard to make it “unlike anything you’ve ever played, but if [done] right, it will feel distinctly BioWare”.

March 9, 2018

Anthem – Drew Karpyshyn Leaves BioWare Again & Heads to Fogbank

Drew Karpyshyn has left BioWare for the second time after rejoining the studio in 2016 and revealing he was working on Anthem in mid-2017. He had previously left BW in 2012 to “pursue his own projects”. Karpyshyn will be working on “a number of other projects, including more original novels, an original sci-fi graphic novel I’m co-creating, and freelance gaming work”. He has also revealed he’s “officially working with Fogbank Entertainment & FoxNet Games”, but has little more to say about it.

January 30, 2018

Anthem – EA Confirms ‘Early 2019’ Release, Claims It’s Not a Delay, Also Posts Nearly $200M Loss in Q3 2017

Earlier today, EA told the Wall Street Journal that BioWare’s Anthem will be coming out in early 2019. EA’s Blake Jorgensen told the WSJ, “It’s not a delay. People are trying to create a story.” However, from the start, BioWare and EA said that Anthem would be released in fall 2018. If that’s not a delay, we don’t know what is.

January 24, 2018

Anthem – BioWare’s Success with Anthem is Key to Its Future as Release Slips to 2019

With Anthem already slipping to “early 2019” from a projected late 2018 release, the anxiety level of BioWare is increasing. Most of the company’s developers in both Austin and Edmonton are focused on creating a multiplayer game that will revive the studio’s reputation. According to an insider’s anonymous statements to Kotaku, developers are worried “the company’s future is inextricably tied to this game”.

January 15, 2018

Anthem – BioWare Will Not Use the Recently-Patented EA Matchmaking Algorithm

Last week it came to light that EA had filed a patent for a matchmaking algorithm to “dramatically increase the odds for players to purchase microtransaction items”. Fans of BioWare’s upcoming Anthem expressed concern that this algorithm would be included when the game is released, supposedly later in 2018. However, Technical Design Director Brenon Holmes took to Reddit in a brief post to disabuse fans of that notion.

December 17, 2017

Anthem – Inadvertent Holiday Party Pic May Have Revealed Anthem VR Mode*

BioWare’s Jay Watamaniuk may have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag by posting a company holiday party pic that shows “Anthem VR” in the corner. Is it possible that EA and BioWare are planning a virtual reality mode for the upcoming Destiny-like game? *Consider this the obligatory “this is a rumor” warning.

August 1, 2017

Anthem – Lead Designer Corey Gaspur Passes Away

BioWare has posted a brief notice that Anthem’s Lead Designer Corey Gaspur has passed away. Gaspur had been with BioWare for a decade and worked on Dragon Age: Origins as well as Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3.

July 24, 2017

Anthem – Odd News of the Day – BioWare’s Themed Corn Maze

Honestly, folks, we can’t make this stuff up. In today’s “odd news”, BioWare has partnered with the Edmonton Corn Maze to celebrate the announcement of Anthem. The design, it is said, celebrates the action-RPG.

June 27, 2017

Anthem – More of a ‘Science-Fantasy’ Game Than Hardcore Sci-Fi

Bioware’s General Manager Aaryn Flynn spoke with Canada’s CBC about Anthem, it first new IP in many years. During the brief interview, Flynn likened Anthem to Star Wars in terms that it is “science-fantasy” as opposed to hardcore “science-fiction” like Mass Effect.