Jioplaygame’s news bulletin for the week
BioWare Shutting Down, Next Mass Effect Canceled
BioWare is shutting down and the next Mass Effect game is canceled, EA has announced. Bloomberg said BioWare closes its doors amid mass layoffs at Electronic Arts, which amount to 400 people losing their jobs (approx. 3% of total staff). Roughly 50 of these roles were at BioWare. Read here.
Lucasfilm wants to do more Star Wars games like Zero Company and Galactic Racer: ‘We’ve tried to be more flexible about who we’re willing to take pitches from’
We’ve had two Star Wars games in 2026, both of them quite good and neither of them quite what you might expect from the Star Wars mould: Zero Company, an XCOM-style tactics game, and Galactic Racer, an arcade racing game but Star Wars. And the success of those games means we may see more like them—which is to say, more offbeat Star Wars games from smaller-scale studios—in the future. Read here.
PS5 jailbreak proves the console could’ve been backwards compatible with PS2 discs all along.
You can finally just plug your PS2 and PS3 discs into a PS5 and play your classic games on the modern console – just without Sony‘s permission. A recent PS5 jailbreak has opened the door for community developers to put robust emulators for classic consoles on the platform, and it’s gone to show that we could’ve had proper backwards compatibility with the old consoles on PS5 all along. Read here.
Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 Rumour Points to Dual-Wielding Pistols, New Quests, and Console FOV.
Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 content has reportedly leaked ahead of its October 22, 2026 release, with YouTuber Wes Nemo outlining a range of potential additions, including new Edgerunners 2 content, dual-wielding pistols, and a field of view (FOV) option on consoles. The details remain unconfirmed and should be treated as a rumour until CD Projekt Red officially reveals the patch notes. Read here.
