You don’t have to spend long playing the game before you run into the Anthem tomb challenges, as you’ll encounter The Challenges of the Legionnaires within your first few hours with Anthem (opens in new tab). These may come as a bit of a shock for newer players, as they …
Read More »Try out Anthems Cataclysm event now on the Public Test Servers and prepare for, uh, deadly weather events
Anthem (opens in new tab) has postponed the Cataclysm (opens in new tab), but you can still try the event out now on the game’s new Public Test Servers on PC. EA and BioWare opened up the PTS today to let players test out changes to the game ahead of …
Read More »Will Anthem be another live-service success story like Destiny, or is going the way of Battleborn?
BioWare’s first foray into the burgeoning Games as a Service (GaaS) market has not been a success for the studio, and that’s putting it kindly. Anthem (opens in new tab) has encountered an array of problems since its launch in February, and it feels as if a fair share of …
Read More »“There was some nervousness at the start” – The history of BioWare as told by people that were there at the time
If we were to make a tier list of video game developers, there’s no doubt in my mind that BioWare would be sat among the very best that the industry has to offer, atop the god tier. There’s a special amount of hype that builds up around any new release …
Read More »“It’s been a rougher launch than expected”: BioWare discusses Anthems future in new statement
On the heels of BioWare community manager Jesse Anderson’s lengthy message to Anthem’s frustrated community (opens in new tab), today BioWare general manager Casey Hudson published a blog post addressing Anthem (opens in new tab)‘s disappointing launch and unclear future. Hudson acknowledged that “there is skepticism out there,” but assured …
Read More »If this Anthem player is right, the loot system isnt just bugged – its fundamentally broken
Poor old Anthem (opens in new tab). BioWare’s online open world shooter gracelessly landed into player’s hands less than a month ago, but it already feels like it’s on life support. The developer behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age has been working round the clock to fix the host of …
Read More »Anthem roadmap: Cataclysms, post-launch support, new endgame activities, and more
Update: EA recently updated its website (opens in new tab) with more information on act one of Anthem’s post-launch content. The expanded page doesn’t tell us anything new about acts two and three – like, for example, when they’ll arrive – but it does outline the three pillars of the …
Read More »How BioWare built Anthem as a multiplayer game with a single-player story
While the upcoming Anthem (opens in new tab) game may look like an entirely new type of experience from BioWare, it does share something in common with the titles that have come before it baring the studio’s name. Much like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass …
Read More »Anthem devs respond to questions on new Javelins, cross-platform support, romance options, and more
With the long-awaited release of Anthem (opens in new tab) game just over a week away – or two weeks away, depending on what version of it you bought – several BioWare devs took to Twitter today to answer questions about the game. Live service head Chad Robertson, executive producer …
Read More »11 things you might have missed about Anthem, but really need to know
With Bioware’s Anthem (opens in new tab) game finally out of the Anthem demo (opens in new tab) period, you probably already know that there are four Javelins to play as, there are various things to shoot, and you can fly. Duh. So far, so obvious. But hidden on the …
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