Highlights:
http://kotaku.com/sources-bioware-montreal-downsized-mass-effect-put-on-1795100285
- The majority of BioWare Montreal's staff has been moved over to EA Motive, who is making Star Wars Battlefront 2's campaign, and a new open world IP.
- The rest of the remaining staff are working on the multiplayer content for Mass Effect Andromeda, along with supporting BioWare Edmonton's new IP. Some are also finishing updates to the singleplayer first.
- Mass Effect isn't officially dead, though this wouldn't be the first time an EA series went on hiatus, and then never returned.
In the wake of BioWare's polarizing Mass Effect: Andromeda, fans have wondered where the lauded sci-fi series will go next. The answer, according to people familiar with the studio, is nowhere—at least for the time being. BioWare has put Mass Effect on hiatus and turned Andromeda's developer, BioWare Montreal, into a support studio, according to four sources close to the company.
That doesn't mean there will never be another Mass Effect game, of course. It's unlikely that BioWare will kill the popular sci-fi franchise. But BioWare is letting Mass Effect sit for a while rather than putting staff on Andromeda's follow-up right away, those sources said.
http://kotaku.com/sources-bioware-montreal-downsized-mass-effect-put-on-1795100285