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BioWare's long-awaited Mass Effect four is no more, and a veteran developer is now speaking candidly about what was lost. Tony de Waal, who spent nearly thirty years at the studio, says the canceled RPG was targeting a level of player autonomy and choice that no other game had ever achieved. Roughly fifty people were working on the project before BioWare shut its doors.
Shifting gears, an Australian logistics company is quietly making history on the road. VCF Transport Services has put a Deepway Star electric semi-trailer — built in China — into active commercial service, adding to a growing wave of electric trucking brands now operating on Australian highways. Managing Director Mark Blackburn says this is not a pilot program. It is simply how they move freight now.
And back in Japan, filmmaker Ishikawa Hiroshi is ending a thirteen-year absence from feature films. His new project, The Blue We Touch, is currently in post-production and set for a two thousand twenty seven release through Bitters End. For fans of quiet, character-driven Japanese cinema, the wait is nearly over.
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