Shadow Realms Canceled

Today, BioWare Austin announced that its urban fantasy 4v1 online action-RPG Shadow Realms has been canceled. According to a post on the official website, the team working on Shadow Realms will be put to work on other BioWare titles, with a special focus on Star Wars: The Old Republic:

We’ve made the decision to not move forward with development of Shadow Realms. We fully recognize that this news is disappointing to some of our fans, so I want to explain more behind this decision.

While the team did amazing work on the game concept and we got lots of great feedback from our fans at events and through other game testing, right now there are other projects for the team to work on within the BioWare studios for the coming year and beyond. We’ve got an incredibly talented team here at the Austin studio, and they are excited and already deep on new projects within the BioWare family, ones that will make some great BioWare games even better.

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But the biggest focus for our team in BioWare Austin will be on Star Warsâ„¢: The Old Republicâ„¢. As every Star Warsâ„¢ fan knows, this is a massive year in the Star Wars universe. We have some great plans for expanding this epic game this year, and look forward to sharing the news about those plans with our players in the coming weeks.