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Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, BioWare’s co-founders, have announced their intent to leave BioWare and retire from the video game industry in general. Both men are seeking careers elsewhere, with Muzyka planning to enter the entrepreneurship field. “My next ‘chapter'” he writes, “will likely focus on an entirely new industry, something exciting, different and frankly downright scary – investing in and mentoring new entrepreneurs, and more specifically, the field of social/impact investing.”

Zeschuk, in turn, speaks of losing his desire to work in the industry, saying “I’ve reached an unexpected point in my life where I no longer have the passion that I once did for the company, for the games, and for the challenge of creation.” Future projects may involve, of all things, craft beer: a web-based show called the Beer Diaries where he interviews notable brewers. He doesn’t write a return to games off completely, adding “If things go well, I’ll work on other beer-related shows, apps and projects. If not, I’ll have drunk a lot of tasty beers and may be back in games or even something else completely different. Ultimately time will tell.”

Both made their announcements on BioWare’s official blog, located here for Zeschuk and here for Muzyka.