Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced it was laying off three percent of its workforce and shuttering BioWare , the pioneering video game studio known for its role-playing games . At the time of its closure, BioWare was in early development on a new RPG set in the Mass Effect universe. That game will now never see the light of day (save for a leaked trailer , which Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier confirmed to be real), but this might not be the end for the Mass Effect universe.

Prime Video’s long-in-the-works Mass Effect TV series is reportedly still in development. According to IGN , which cites anonymous sources close to the production, “all the creatives who were attached to the TV project remain onboard.” Those include showrunner Doug Jung ( The Cloverfield Paradox , Star Trek Beyond ) and writer Dan Casey ( F9 ).

The TV series is an original story set after the events of the original Mass Effect game trilogy.…