Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, founders of Bioware, are stepping down, almost exactly five years after EA bought the company, which is… suspicious. I’m sure they’re just both tired of making games at the exact same time, and not fulfilling some contract that they signed when the company was purchased ensuring they would both stay on fire five years. Total coincidence. Muzyka will be entering the amazingly vague field of “entrepreneurship” for… stuff. He wasn’t entirely clear on what he would be entrepreneuring, but you know something’s getting all sorts of entrepreneured. Meanwhile, Zeschuk is spending his retirement doing something more logical, drinking beer. Specifically he’ll be drinking beer to discuss it for a web series about craft beers. That’s cool, but you know what would be cooler? Just enjoying the beer. You created Bioware, man. You can just coast. Just drink the beer and don’t work. That seems like the way to go.
But don’t worry about Bioware. They’ve got plenty of irons in the fire. There’s that new Dragon Age we heard about yesterday, some sort of new something that hasn’t been announced yet, and a new Mass Effect. Yes, Mass Effect. Bioware isn’t letting the retirement of their founders or the fact that Mass Effect is, you know, finished get in the way of giving you more damn Mass Effect. Awesome.
