EA Shuts Down Dragon Age, Mass Effect Studio BioWare

Publisher Electronic Arts is planning to shut down legendary RPG studio BioWare, laying off about 50 employees at the studio alongside 350 more elsewhere. In a new Bloomberg report , a person familiar with the matter said a total of 3% of EA's overall company has been affected by this latest round of layoffs. According to a staff letter sent out on Wednesday that Bloomberg viewed, EA chief operating officer David Tinson and chief studios officer Cam Weber explained that the company took a "hard look" at its business over the last several months.