EA told its employees that it will be laying off 400 staffers as well as shut down storied studio BioWare. This, in effect, also ended the next Mass Effect game, which was already in early development. Seemingly immediately after, a Redditor who claims to be an EA employee using a burner account shared what looks like the trailer for the cancelled game.
The trailer opens with text noting that it’s been made from in-game footage using pre-production assets, but phrased in a way that is very strange for a trailer. This then cuts to show a man wearing an N7 trench coat entering a bar, with an asari approaching soon after for a conversation. This presumed new protagonist recounts a previously military line of work, saying that he’s now in a “new line of work”, with the trailer now cutting to a very James Bond-esque montage of action, both in the literal and figurative sense of the word.
