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Mythic and BioWare merge into a single RPG group thing photo

Notable Lakers versus Celtics publisher Electronic Arts recently merged Mythic Entertainment and BioWare into a single RPG super group. Unlike Tapeworm, this stellar group is bound to produce some digestible content: BioWare, at the very least, still has Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and Star Wars: The Old Republic slated for release. Mythic, on the other hand, has Warhammer Online.

As usual with these things, studio positions have shifted. BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzukya is the group’s general manager, while the other doctor, Greg Zeschuk, is the new creative officer. Mythic’s GM has left the company entirely.

In other news, Cold Stone Creamery has JELL-O Pudding ice cream. It’s only available this summer, so if you want to “delight your taste buds” with a “revolutionary” ice cream, act now. Seriously. It’s awesome.

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bluexy's Avatar
bluexy at 06/24/2009 22:02
You jerk, by blog hasn't even been updated to the main list and you're drinking my koolaid!
LuntiX's Avatar
LuntiX at 06/24/2009 22:09
Awesome :D Though I was never a fan of mythic since of all the bugs I encountered with Warhammer.

Bioware also has Mass Effect 3 (Mass Effect was announced as a trilogy) in the future.
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Brad Nicholson at 06/24/2009 22:12
@bluexy - What?
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Brad Nicholson at 06/24/2009 22:14
@bluexy - Oh, I see. I'll do you one.
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MrSadistic at 06/24/2009 22:15
EA also made Jordan vs. Bird.

Dick.
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NihonTiger90 at 06/24/2009 22:25
I'm not happy about this. I have not been a fan of Mythic. BioWare's a different story. Love them. But I hope this won't hurt them in the long run.
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elysse at 06/24/2009 22:44
Like watching a girl fight, I've always wondered why these two companies didn't just kiss already..... and now it looks like they have. :-)
LuntiX's Avatar
LuntiX at 06/24/2009 23:11
@ Elysee - more like forced together in a room and being told they have to repopulate the world with RPG games for face death.
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Ghil at 06/24/2009 23:21
And I still remember the speech where EA wouldn't have any effect on how Bioware would do things. And with Mythic? ungh.
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SaintRising at 06/24/2009 23:24
Mmm.... I don't know what to think about this currently. D:
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-PL- at 06/24/2009 23:41
I hope Mythic's involvement doesn't turn SW:TOR into a shameless WoW clone like Warhammer. I was actually planning on buying this game, they had better not screw this up. I do NOT want to play another game exactly like WoW. I think WoW's great, but I've played it for five effing years and would like something different.
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Infininja at 06/25/2009 00:53
Hey, all that work in Tapeworm did result in one good song. :p
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Sir Unimaginative at 06/25/2009 01:00
fffffffffffffffffffffff

Oh wait, there's still more Mass Effect coming out.

*looks down the pipeline* Oh dear, there's still more Mass Effect for them to work on.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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buzzhonky at 06/25/2009 01:21
Well I can't wait for Mass Dark Age of the Old Dragon-Hammer Republic Effect 40k: Age of Reckoning!

Gimme some good news Doc's!
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beno at 06/25/2009 01:58
Thanks for the heads up, Chet!
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Knives at 06/25/2009 03:27
OMG
Jello Pudding Ice cream :O
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DrunkyDerek at 06/25/2009 08:43
JELL-O Pudding Ice Cream?? I'm so there!
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Volomon at 06/25/2009 09:06
Ha, I freaking KNEW IT! I said this was going to happen like freaking 2 years ago. That Mythic would eventual cease to exist as has many EA consumed studios. I have to go gloat now.
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Char Aznable at 06/25/2009 10:37
Now if only that Jell-O ice cream was converted into popsicle form...
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Cyanosis117 at 06/25/2009 10:46
It always makes me anxious to hear about great developers merging with (relatively) less great developers, and by EA no less.

But all this talk of Warhammer and Mass Effect reminds me how much I'd like to see a 40k Inquisitor RPG. Seriously guys, do it.
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Im OK at 06/25/2009 15:58
This is how it starts. This is how it always starts.

Now they're "just" getting merged (and people are leaving and shit).

Next, they'll be renamed to something lame like "EA Dumbname" or whatever.

Then, finally, a few years from now we'll all be sitting around, lamenting whatever happened to Bioware and Mythic, yeah those guys were awesome back in the day, it's so sad that EA had to go and fuck everything up yet again, and so on and so forth. The same way many of us do now with Westwood, Origin, Bullfrog, etc.

I totally hope I'm wrong here, but...
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kitae at 06/26/2009 23:35
There's no merging going on, Mythic is a separate studio and it's staying separate! This is just a management change basically.

I think this is pretty cool, I really like Mythic. DAOC was pretty awesome and Warhammer is also pretty awesome. If this encourages collaboration between Mythic and Bioware - great! I think both studios could learn from one another.

Also I work for Bioware :O Welcome Mythic.
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