Mass Effect Boss Mike Gamble Slips A Hidden Message Into His N7 Day...

Yes, BioWare is still working on it. No, there is nothing new to say or show.

Between the post-Veilguard massacre and EA's looming acquisition by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the storied studio known as BioWare is having a pretty rough time. It's still kicking, though, and still working on a new Mass Effect game—and executive producer Michael Gamble would really like it if you'd all stop yelling at him about it.

"Like you, we’ve heard the rumors lately," Gamble wrote in his traditional N7 Day blog post. "You’ve made it clear you care deeply about what’s next. So let’s start by setting the record straight: the next Mass Effect game is in development, and EA and BioWare remain committed to telling more stories in this universe.

"The truth is, the last few years have been an incredibly busy time at BioWare. But currently, the team is heads-down and focused exclusively on Mass Effect. We have a lot of universe to cover, lots of features to build, and lots of romances to figure out. We’re excited by what we’re building, and we promise you: when we’re ready, it’ll be a lot of fun to show. Until then, thank you for your patience because y’all are thirsty for news and I see you looking for secret meaning in my tweets (okay, sometimes they have secret meaning)."

And sure enough, there was something hidden in Gamble's message. I've left the formatting intact so you can see bits of it in the part I've posted above: Characters in the post are intermittently italicized. Put them all together, leaving out the italics on the game title, and you get:

Right on cue, dozens of Mass Effect fans set about trying to unravel the mystery. For the moment, the mystery remains ravelled: Sharp minds noticed that the link blog.bioware.com/2025/11/07/n7-day-2025/krogan/n7—tacking the hidden message onto the URL for today's update—redirects to a 2012 blog post detailing Mass Effect 3's first-ever multiplayer "Challenge Weekend," which some took to mean that multiplayer might finally be coming to the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. (It was omitted because BioWare felt the effort to get it working wouldn't be worth the payoff, which was unfortunate because it really was excellent.) T

hat was as far as internet sleuths got until the official Mass Effect account on X dropped a hint. Based on that, fans quickly decoded the "krogan" message to a series of numbers, which linked to this image:

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Source: PC Gamer