Following yesterday’s BioWare closure announcement, sci-fi authors Catherynne M. Valente and Derek Kunsken both revealed they had been working on the game for years. “It was one of the greatest privileges & GLORIOUS challenges of my life. I smiled every day. I worked HARD for the fans, every day,” Valente wrote. “What we were cooking was really cool,” Kunsken added.

A nice establishing shot. Reddit

Despite the existence of a 6-year-old teaser for the game, EA executives Cam Weber and David Tinson said in a memo to staff yesterday that there was only “a small team at BioWare working on early-development for Mass Effect .” The decision “not to move forward with this development” led to BioWare’s closure, which the note calls “a legendary studio that helped define the role-playing genre, and we do not take this decision lightly.”

In an N7 Day blog post last year , Executive Producer Mike Gamble said, “The team is heads-down and focused exclusively on Mass Effect .…