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EA’s CEO still has faith in BioWare after mixed Mass Effect: Andromeda reviews

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson said today in an analyst call that the critical reviews of Mass Effect: Andromeda delivered scores that were “lower than we liked.” But Wilson isn’t taking that out on the game’s studio, EA’s BioWare division.

Mass Effect: Andromeda had an average score of 73 out 100 on review aggregator Metacritic. That compared to 89 out of 100 for Mass Effect 3, which came out in 2010.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.