I didn't say this yesterday because I simply wanted to mourn the company, but yes, Erik is absolutely right. The biggest mortal wounds to Bioware were done by EA trying to fit Bioware's square peg into EA's live service round hole. Anthem is obviously the biggest example, but Dragon Age and its core development talent were undone by it and so too was Mass Effect. The irony is that if EA had simply developed a Mass Effect or even Dragon Age version of Battlefield as a separate product instead of consistently pushing Bioware to piggyback multiplayer functionality into the single player experience, they would have had whole other lines of successful products. Bioware Montreal would probably still be humming happily along. Instead, Bioware became the latest victim in an inglorious history of Electronic Arts buying RPG studios and trying to cure them of their strengths by forcing them to chase whatever the latest game trends were. As before, the talent that made the company what it was moved on, and those who remained or came on later ended up being the caretakers for the funeral procession.

As a kid, The Bard's Tale was the first game that got me thinking that I could be in the game industry when I got older. Bioware, though, was the company that actively got me pursuing that dream. I'll always be grateful to the Bioware vets who helped nudge me toward that day.

The greatest TV station ever. It was a tragedy when it got turned into the original CW.

On one hand, I'm tentatively happy that Sicario 3 is happening. On the other hand, Jeffrey Donovan absolutely has to come back, too. And Steven Knight writing it doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

Legitimately one of my favorite things growing up was seeing how the same game was adapted across different systems. You could create an entire game design course on examining the technical and design choices made to make the game run and retain the spirit of the gameplay.

I frequently tell people that Pitfall! was the first true "hype" game that I remember people eagerly awaiting its release. Including me!

Another day, another offensively terrible censoring of older artwork in the name of...something. The people who make these decisions are Philistines and should never be allowed near any creative endeavor.

Back when they remade all the LucasArts adventure games 15-16 years ago, I kept waiting for this one to get its moment but...still waiting. :-(

If you are among the few who get both sides of the joke here, I hope you laugh as hard as I did. (And you should look up the Lennon/Berry performance. I'm presuming it's kicking around YouTube somewhere.)

Two really great reworks by Cyan. If you like adventure gaming, both are worth a look whether you're revisiting them or checking them out for the first time.

Randomly saw this, and all I can think is that whoever did the cover design for this *has* to have had a hand in designing the early covers for Electronic Arts games.

The one for Heat is particularly inspired.

Still the best Lovecraft-themed video game ever created.

Legendary, influential original. Gold standard for what a remaster can be.

A new game from Michael Cranford! And for the @commodoreofcl 64 no less! I'm very excited for this! Good luck, Michael!

Hmm. There's quite a few I still revisit. I'll try to set myself to just one and then do that for each decade. 1970's: Space Invaders 1980's: Pac-Man 1990's: Master of Orion 2 2000's: Rome: Total War 2010's: Civilization V (close between this and Stellaris) 2020's: Old World