Anthem
Anthem Review
Editor’s note: This review was originally conducted in a podcast format, available as a video above or right here as an audio file. A summary of the review follows. You can make some cool power armor if you put your mind to it. BioWare nails the feeling of flight in its first attempt at a […]
Hopes for an eventual Anthem private server resurrection ignited as former executive producer says code for running the game locally ‘is there to be salvaged and recovered’
As of roughly 2:05 pm EST on Monday, Anthem is really, truly dead. In a world of fan-run private server game resurrections, however, does it have to stay dead? Maybe not. At the end of a lengthy tell-all video about Anthem’s legendarily troubled development (via Eurogamer), former BioWare executive producer and Anthem project lead Mark […]
Anthem could be revived as a trad BioWare singleplayer RPG for $10 million, says former Dragon Age producer
BioWare’s misbegotten mech-me-do Anthem died this week after EA pulled the official servers. It’s a sad day for people who saw promise in the game’s sci-fi world and flight mechanics, however spoiled by the always-online looter-shooting, and a happy day for people who really hated being called “freelancer” in community bulletins. I was an actual […]
‘All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain’ — Players bid farewell to Anthem as EA officially shuts down the game’s servers for good
Anthem‘s servers have officially been shut down by EA Players of BioWare’s 2019 online shooter are sharing their farewells online through final gameplay clips, memes, and memories Other players are hopeful the game will see a revival one day After almost seven years online, EA has officially shut down Anthem‘s servers for good. At some […]
Anthem is finally, officially dead
Today at roughly 2:05 pm EST, almost seven years after launch, Anthem’s last few players were unceremoniously booted from whatever launch bays, strongholds, and freeplay zones they lingered in. A popup informed them they’d lost connection to EA’s servers. After a lengthy delay, any additional login attempts would fail, citing an “error retrieving Anthem live […]
Did ANTHEM Deserve the Hate?
ANTHEM is dead. Or at least, it soon will be, depending on when you’re reading this. While the online looter-shooter never quite set the world on fire, it’s worth remembering that there was quite a lot of hype behind ANTHEM ahead of its eventual release on the 22nd February, 2019. This was, after all, a […]
BioWare’s Biggest Failure ANTHEM Shuts Down Today
An entire BioWare game will disappear today, as the time has arrived for the developer to switch off the online servers for ANTHEM, its PS4 flop of 2019. As an online-only experience, the title will no longer be playable in any form on any console or PC once access has been revoked. An exact time […]
Anthem players log in to say goodbye to the game they loved before it’s gone forever: ‘Strong alone, stronger together’
While Anthem wasn’t well-loved at launch, it wasn’t hated either. Steven Messner gave it a middling score of 55 in his review, which aligned with my own feeling of being a bit whelmed by a game with a clear identity crisis—a live service multiplayer game that wanted you and your friends to play strongholds together, […]
Anthem has now gone offline forever
EA’s troubled online only multiplayer action game Anthem has gone offline for good, with EA turning off the servers meaning no Freelancers can take to the game’s skies anymore. There are no plans to add an offline mode to Anthem so it is completely unplayable. EA did announce it was pulling the plug on Anthem’s […]
As Anthem breathes its last, I still find myself mourning just how close it came to being the BioWare game of my dreams
The end of this week spells the final gasp for BioWare’s Anthem. I suspect most people won’t think too much about it – that’s why, almost seven years after it first launched and five since EA pulled the plug on development, the Anthem servers are due to be shut off on Monday January 12. But […]