{"id":103751,"date":"2019-11-15T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354170"},"modified":"2019-11-15T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:25:00","slug":"report-bioware-planning-revitalizing-overhaul-for-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/report-bioware-planning-revitalizing-overhaul-for-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: BioWare planning revitalizing overhaul for Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sources-bioware-plans-a-complete-overhaul-for-anthem-1839892415\">Sources speaking to Kotaku<\/a> say that BioWare and parent company EA haven\u2019t given up on <em>Anthem<\/em>, the studio\u2019s ambitious online shooter that launched with little fanfare earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>If those sources are to be believed, the company is looking to revitalize interest in its live game through a hefty update down the line, a potentially risky stunt but one that other studios like Ubisoft and Hello Games have pulled off to breathe new life into their own games after tepid launches.<\/p>\n<p>Kotaku notes that there\u2019s no official timeline for what\u2019s internally being called <em>Anthem 2.0<\/em> or <em>Anthem Next,<\/em> and EA declined to comment on any of the rumored plans. In fact, beyond tentative plans to overhaul the game, nothing about Anthem 2.0 is set in stone. Kotaku\u2019s sources teams know the game\u2019s core systems will see significant change, but the exact form those will take is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson said as recently as June that the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/345191\/Anthems_rocky_launch_hasnt_dissuaded_EA_says_CEO.php\">had no&nbsp;plans to cut its losses<\/a> on <em>Anthem<\/em> after its rocky launch and, while these reports are yet unconfirmed, tentative talk of <em>Anthem 2.0<\/em> would mean that EA plans to back up those earlier claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources speaking to Kotaku say that BioWare and parent company EA haven\u2019t given up on Anthem, the studio\u2019s ambitious online shooter that launched with little fanfare earlier this year. If those sources are to be believed, the company is looking to revitalize interest in its live game through a hefty update down the line, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}