# Documentary to chart BioWare’s 31-year history and closure next year

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/a-bioware-documentary-is-set-to-arrive-next-year/
- Published: 2026-11-05T22:07:44+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T22:19:14+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2308483/a-bioware-documentary-is-set-to-arrive-next-year/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- A documentary will tell BioWare’s 31-year story.
- Filming started two years before the studio closed.
- Founders, developers and fans will contribute.

## Summary

The newly announced documentary *Massive Effect: The BioWare Story* will chart the studio’s 31-year history and its closure by Electronic Arts, with a release expected next year. Filming began two years before BioWare shut, giving the filmmakers a record of its final period.

Commissioned by Canada’s Super Channel, the film will feature founders Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Augustine Yip, as well as *Mass Effect* director Casey Hudson, voice actor Jennifer Hale and former EA chief John Riccitiello. Fans can submit photos, videos, cosplay, art and other memories; when it closed, BioWare had around 50 workers and was beginning work on the next *Mass Effect* game.

## Coverage

- [Engadget: Documentary to chart BioWare’s 31-year history and closure next year](https://www.engadget.com/2308483/a-bioware-documentary-is-set-to-arrive-next-year/)
- [Rock Paper Shotgun: BioWare are gone, but at least you'll be able to watch their final days in a documentary next year and oh wait that's really sad actually](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bioware-are-gone-but-at-least-youll-be-able-to-watch-their-final-days-in-a-documentary-next-year-and-oh-wait-thats-really-sad-actually)

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