Screenwriter Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect Drew Karpyshyn announced his retirement from the company BioWare and the gaming industry. He said this on his official website .
February 16, 2012 Drew Karpyshyn left the company BioWare. As we learned from the message in the microblog Twitter, it will cease to write scripts for video games. Such decisions writer explained the desire to focus on writing his own book "Children of Fire" ("Children of Fire") and scripts for other projects not related to the gaming industry.
Drew Karpyshyn was one of the key writers of BioWare and participated in the creation of role-playing games such as Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate 2 and film series Mass Effect. He is also the author of three novels in the Mass Effect universe, and three - in the universe of "Star Wars." Karpyshyn latest work is a script MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The final part of the trilogy Mass Effect will go on sale March 9, 2012 on PC, Xbox 360and PlayStation 3. The script for the play was written by Mac Walters co-authored with Neil Pollner.