Composer Austin Wintory Shares His Early Musical Drafts Intended For Mass Effect 5

Last week, EA shut down Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare , which resulted in the cancellation of the fifth Mass Effect game that was announced in 2020. As the fallout from this closure settles, famed video game composer Austin Wintory has shared that he'd been working on a potential soundtrack for the now-canceled game and has publicly released early versions of this score. In a Bluesky thread , Wintory, who has composed soundtracks for games such as Journey, Sword of the Sea, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, and The Banner Saga trilogy, writes, “Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale…