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The creator of our running RPG of the year weighs in on BioWare's closure: 'They were fundamental to the genre'

By Ted Litchfield · PC Gamer · Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 18:23 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

With the closure of RPG standby BioWare, we've been consulting the PC Gamer rolodex and reaching out to developers for their thoughts and reflections on the legendary studio. Lead SEO editor Lauren Morton spoke to 16 devs who joined this industry because of BioWare games.

I was happy to hear back from Christoffer Bodegård, developer of our current RPG of the year frontrunner, Esoteric Ebb, on what BioWare meant to him.

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