JORDAN GERBLICK × ANTHEM

Every piece Jordan Gerblick has written about Anthem.

5 articles spanning Anthem's coverage, newest first.

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22 OCT 2025
1 piece
JG
GamesRadar+·22 Oct 2025
EA hits like Battlefield 4 and The Sims 4 were given time to bounce back from rough launches because they were "too big to fail," whereas with BioWare's Anthem, it wasn't "a given that it was going to be that big"
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12 SEPT 2025
1 piece
JG
GamesRadar+·12 Sept 2025
BioWare realized late in Anthem's development that "this game was coming in on fire" after EA told the devs "we were targeting a game in the 70s" on Metacritic
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11 SEPT 2025
1 piece
JG
GamesRadar+·11 Sept 2025
Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling spreads" across all players when they split up
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6 AUG 2025
2 pieces
JG
GamesRadar+·6 Aug 2025
"It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"
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JG
GamesRadar+·6 Aug 2025
Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"
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