Anthem Director leaves BioWare after restart plans closed

Jonathan Warner of BioWare – who most recently was Anthem’s game director – is leaving the company. He announced on Twitter that today, March 26, is his last day with the esteemed RPG studio.

He said he is “moving on to do new things”. In his statement, Warner wished his colleagues the best and said that he is excited to play future BioWare games as a fan. “BioWare has been the home of my grateful heart for almost 10 years and I want to wish them all the best. Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic are in good hands and I can’t wait to play with that side of the screen, “he said.

According to his LinkedIn page, Warner’s last position at BioWare was as a team leader. He was also the game director at BioWare’s Anthem, who struggled to find an audience. BioWare recently canceled plans to revive the game and is moving to new projects.

Prior to that, he was director of games for almost six years at BioWare and, prior to that, he was a senior producer of Mass Effect 3.

Before joining EA and BioWare, Warner worked at The Walt Disney Company for seven years, where he contributed to games like Cars 2, Toy Story 3, Meet the Robinsons, Chicken Little and Dragon Ball Z.

Warner is not the only longtime employee of a prominent game studio to announce its departure, as 10-year-old Assassin’s Creed writer Darby McDevitt is also leaving Ubisoft.