"I'm not saying it doesn't hurt and doesn't suck."

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One of BioWare's famous doctor-founders, Greg Zeschuk, has finally spoken about the studio's closure last week , saying it's "kind of sad" and that EA's leveraged buyout by a Saudi-involved consortium "was the final nail in the coffin".

Speaking to 80 Level , Zeschuk - who founded BioWare in 1995 with fellow medical students Ray Muzyka and Augustine Yip - said he was fishing when news of the studio's closure broke. "I got like 10 texts," Zeschuk said. "I came off the river and got to my little room and opened my phone, and it's like, 'I'm so sorry to hear about BioWare.' And I'm like, 'Oh shit.'"

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By the time he flew home later, he'd already apparently digested the news and missed most of the discourse around it.…