# EA’s sale to Saudi-led consortium was “final nail in the coffin” for BioWare, says studio co-founder

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/eas-sale-to-saudi-led-consortium-was-final-nail-in-the-coffin-for-bioware-says-studio-co-founder/
- Published: 2026-10-29T15:08:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T15:35:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Eurogamer
- Original article: https://www.eurogamer.net/bioware-co-founder-greg-zeschuk-closure-interview
- Topics: Americas, Middle East

## Key points

- Zeschuk says EA’s sale was BioWare’s “final nail in the coffin”.
- He called the closure especially sad for Edmonton.
- The co-founder retired from BioWare in 2012.

## Summary

BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has described the studio’s closure as sad, particularly for Edmonton, where he said it had represented hope and creative possibility. He said EA’s sale to a Saudi-involved consortium was “the final nail in the coffin”, pointing to the difficulty of sustaining BioWare’s complex, time-consuming games under a business model that favours annual sports releases.

Zeschuk founded BioWare with Ray Muzyka and Augustine Yip in 1995, then retired with Muzyka in 2012. He said the studio changed gradually as people left and joined, rather than because the founders’ departure alone caused its decline. After leaving games, Zeschuk built Blind Enthusiasm, a brewing company that now employs about a dozen people and ships tens of thousands of bottles each year.

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