 Given the circumstances Electronic Arts has reportedly frozen the entire "Mass Effect" series, downgrading the BioWare Montréal branch from a leading development team to a support team, and later merging it into Motive Studios.During EA's "EA Play" pre-E3 press conference on 10 June 2017, BioWare revealed "Anthem", a new action role-playing game, with BioWare's story writer, Drew Karpyshyn, who previously worked on "Mass Effect" and "Mass Effect 2", contributing to the new game.In July 2017, Aaryn Flynn, General Manager of BioWare, announced that he would depart from the company.