Shadow Realms – the reveal is coming

Update 3:

A third live action teaser has now been released, along with confirmation that the game will be officially unveiled at Gamescom in Germany next week. The new teaser doesn’t really reveal any new information, just more hints that the game involves ordinary people gaining supernatural powers, but there is the promise that the unveil event will, at least in part, be livestreamed via Twitch.

The event will take place on Wednesday, August 14 – with the Twitch stream starting at 4pm UK time. Although all evidence points towards the new game being called Shadow Realms publisher EA has still not announced its name officially. We have booked an interview slot with BioWare for next week though, so by that time all should have been revealed.




Update 2:

BioWare has released a second live action teaser trailer for the game, and this one is a little less abstract. It shows a teenager obsessively drawing circles on his napkin, while being interrupted by a mysterious unlisted number on his smartphone. This then seems to awaken some sort of electricity powers in him.

There’s still been no official explanation of what the game is it, but these two trailers seem to suggest an ‘ordinary people get superpowers’ theme. The game is expected to be officially announced at Gamescom next month, but there are no interviews or hands-on session scheduled, so it’ll probably just be a longer, less obtuse, trailer.

Update:

It looks like the new game is probably called Shadow Realms, which seems to fit the sort of imagery going on in the teaser. More importantly fans have noticed that one of the images in the email is called ‘ShadowRealms_Teaser_video.jpg’, which does kind of give the game away.

On top of that EA registered the name Shadow Realms back in February, but until now there’s been no hint of what it relates to.

Who is the smoking man?

Original story:

It looks like BioWare’s new IP will be revealed as early as next month, in a game that seems to be set in the modern day.

We’ve just received a peculiar new email claiming that we’ve been ‘chosen’, that our ‘power is rising’ and that ‘The time is near… they are watching’.

Rather than it being the Illuminati finally getting back to us it appears to be BioWare teasing a new game reveal for the Gamescom expo next month in Germany.

The email seems to have been sent to us in the capacity of ordinary gamers, not journos, so if you check your inbox you might have one too. Although we wouldn’t get to excited about clicking the website link as it doesn’t work at the moment.

The live action teaser above is presumably what the website is trying to show you, and although it’s a dream (or rather nightmare) sequence it does seem to suggest a game set in the modern day – which is not something BioWare has done before.



What exactly is going on in the teaser we couldn’t say but it seems to suggest some sort of supernatural threat, or at least X-Files style weirdness. The tagline of ‘What really happens when you sleep?’ is presumably the most direct hint at what’s going on.

BioWare Edmonton, the original BioWare studio, is known to be working on a new IP – as well as the imminent Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Most assumed that Mass Effect 4, by BioWare Montreal, would be the next game but so far very little of the game has been shown. Although more may be revealed at Comic-Con this weekend.

BioWare’s dream game

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