Honma Credits BioWare as BioWare Closes
The Edgerunners connection Honma traces runs through a localization pitch and a referral, which means the Japanese release of The Witcher 2 and the anime work that followed sit downstream of a studio that has now closed.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Satoru Honma, a former Spike localization staffer now at CD PROJEKT RED, posted on X on October 22, 2026, the day Electronic Arts announced BioWare's closure. Honma proposed the Japanese localization of Dragon Age: Origins while at Spike, and BioWare staff later introduced Spike to CD PROJEKT RED for The Witcher 2. That connection, he wrote, is why he ended up on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Electronic Arts announced BioWare's closure on October 22, 2026, citing recent titles that continued to receive harsh reviews. Honma's post came the same day. He was at Spike when he contacted BioWare about localizing Dragon Age: Origins; the Japanese version Spike released in 2011 for PS3 and Xbox 360 drew praise from BioWare itself. When CD PROJEKT RED needed Japanese versions of The Witcher 2, BioWare staff made the introduction. Spike Chunsoft handled that game and The Witcher 3, Honma moved to CD PROJEKT RED, and he worked on the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime. He closed with a line that reads as an obituary for the studio: "Without BioWare, Edgerunners might not have existed."
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