Level Up: Anthem’s demise paints a bleak future for live service games

Electronic Arts officially closed the book on Anthem this week, ceasing development of the troubled Bioware project only two years after its original release. For a live service game, this is downright cataclysmic.

Recent months had seen Electronic Arts and Bioware working on Anthem NEXT, a proposed reboot of the troubled title that would bring it back into the limelight. Such a project would be ambitious without the development troubles brought upon by the global pandemic, and such obstacles seemingly proved too difficult to surpass. 

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