United Kingdom, Feb. 3 -- 'Mass Effect 5' is "still in pre-production".

Now that BioWare has finished work on 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard', many employees have moved over to the upcoming sci-fi RPG, though director Michael Gamble has now said 'Mass Effect 5' has not yet entered full-scale development.

Responding to an X (formally Twitter) thread, Gamble wrote: "As the notes have said, we are still in pre-production."

Publisher Electronic Arts (EA) recently said "now that 'The Veilguard' has shipped, [BioWare]'s full focus is 'Mass Effect'".

A spokesperson for the company told IGN: "While we're not sharing numbers. The studio has the right number of people in the right roles to work on 'Mass Effect' at this stage of development."

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