Bioware trailer teases mysterious project, rumoured to be called Shadow Realms

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The teaser is likely definitely not related to Bioware Edmonton's new title, revealed at E3. "We want to take on very contemporary stories," said Bioware's Casey Hudson, during a video shown at the time. "And yet we want to build a world that is as big and as imaginative as everything we've done before."

Bioware announced this new video in an email sent to fans. As seen on All Games Beta , the image in that email was named "ShadowRealms_Teaser_video.jpg". Earlier this year, EA filed a trademark for a game called Shadow Realms.

Mini-update: Oh yeah, there's this too . On 25 February, Failbetter Games—of Sunless Sea and Fallen London—announced that they were working with Bioware. "I can't tell you anything at all about the project," Failbetter wrote at the time, "not for a little while yet – except to say that it's a Failbettery one, down to its bones." Given that the Shadow Realms trademark was also filed late-Feb, it's more likely that this —not the Edmonton project—is what the teaser refers to.

Mini-update, part #2: Confirmation that it's not the mystery Edmonton project.

That makes it extremely likely that it's the Failbetter collaboration. We'll hopefully find out for sure at Gamescom.

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