Electronic Arts recently announced an Iron Manvideo game, and the Marvel adventure has the potential to redeem EA's failed multiplayer title Anthem. The sci-fi superhero simulator is in early development at Motive Studio, the developer behind the remake of Dead Space. While little is actually known about the title, EA has specified that the game will be a single-player story-driven experience that makes players truly feel like the invincible Tony Stark. EA's Iron Man video game is still far from release, but the Marvel title really needs to make up for the failures of Anthem. 693bd

A former Bioware producer has criticized the so-called “Bioware Magic” that developers referred to during the production of its games. Bioware has been in a slump since its infamous launch of Mass Effect: Andromeda in 2017, which marred its beloved sci-fi series. The developer would flounder again with the dismal launch and management of Anthem in 2019. Poor reception of both games has sullied the once pristine Bioware name, a far cry from the stellar receptions from previous entries before Andromeda’s release.

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Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, Destiny 2, Apex Legends, and now Assassin's Creed Infinity - these all represent the rising free-to-play model that has slowly crept up the games industry and has now taken hold of the AAA space. The seemingly simple reason as to why is because of its profitability, but there are more nuanced reasons why some are shifting in this direction, and why that focus is both good and bad.

An indie developer is working on a new game that has a flight system heavily inspired by Anthem. EA's Anthem is an online multiplayer action game, originally released for consoles and PC in 2019. Sadly, the game failed to make the splash it intended, receiving mixed to low scores and reviews from critics and players alike. Anthem is now widely regarded as a failure across all platforms.

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Jonathan Warner, game director on Anthem, departed BioWare today following a decade-long stint at the Electronic Arts-owned studio. Such news comes approximately one month after BioWare announced its official cancellation of Anthem 2.0, the overhaul originally meant to revitalize the live service with a complete gameplay revamp. While the developers promise to continue ing the online title, larger content-specific updates are now a thing of the past.

Crystal Dynamics, the primary studio behind live service Marvel’s Avengers game, studied Anthem and Destiny in order to form a strategy for post-launch content. Marvel’s Avengers was released last year to mixed reviews, mainly getting praise for its story, character moments, and gameplay while its endgame content was received as repetitive, grindy, and lacking replay value. Endgame missions are essential for live service games to keep their player bases grinding for interesting loot, but Marvel’s Avengers struggled to retain its audience. Crystal Dynamics has not thrown in the towel yet, as the studio continues to release and develop more heroes and story content as well as keeping the game updated with patches.

Anthem's troubled development, rocky release, and lack of post-launch shows just how critical a situation BioWare is in when it comes to the studio's projects Dragon Age and the yet-untitled Mass Effect sequel.

Whether it's considered a massive folly or a missed opportunity, the story of Anthem will go down in video game history as a failure. BioWare spent years creating an iceberg of lore and backstory for its inexplicably unnamed planet, but players only got to see a small fraction of it emerge in the finished product. Like several other games that tried to ape live service titles like Destiny 2 or Fortnite, Anthem's unique gameplay hook couldn't overcome its lack of an endgame and generic combat loop. BioWare attempted to fix it with the Anthem Next reboot (aka Anthem 2.0), but Anthem is now completely dead, and those who were still holding out hope are left to ask why.