'Not a Lot of Time': BioWare Explains Why Its Gone Quiet on Mass Effect 5

A senior developer at BioWare has explained why there's been no recent updates on the studio's next game, half a decade on from announcing Mass Effect 5. BioWare's most recent Mass Effect 5 update dropped last November, when it released a fresh piece of concept art and publisher EA recommitted to the future of Mass Effect, despite downsizing the studio behind it. Since then? Silence, other than a job ad for a senior team member. Now, Mass Effect franchise boss Mike Gamble has provided the briefest of updates to explain why everything's gone quiet once again. "Just busy workin," Gamble wrote on X/Twitter, responding to a fan who asked for an update. "Not a lot of time for tease." It's a brief update, but perhaps fittingly so if the studio really is that busy. Of course, while BioWare committed to making Mass Effect 5 back in 2020, the storied RPG studio was still deep in development on Dragon Age: The Veilguard at the time. After a long and bumpy road to release, The Veilguard ultimately launched in late 2024 to a mixed response, prompting job losses and a far smaller BioWare as a result. While the layoffs seemed like a semi-permanent thinning of BioWare's ranks, the company explain