Mass Effect 5 has received a long-awaited hopeful update, with BioWare confirming several series veterans have returned to develop the next entry.

Mass Effect: Andromeda introduced several mysteries that went unanswered after Mass Effect went on ice several months after it launched. With the announcement and development of Mass Effect 4 ...

After Andromeda didn't quite meet fans ... But, according to Rolling Stone, BioWare's full attention now lies back with Mass Effect after the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

There is really no getting around the fact that BioWare is in dire straits at the moment, now at the end of a decade of three ...

But now The Veilguard has shipped, that doesn't mean Mass Effect 5 will suddenly have the full operational strength ... led development on Mass Effect Andromeda, and was subsequently folded ...

References to Andromeda is immediately interesting ... The trailer was also accompanied by new Mass Effect art - the full-resolution version you can see below and zoom right in.

Which isn't something that can be said for Mass Effect Andromeda, the ill-fated follow-up to the original trilogy – that game wasn't out and out bad, but it just didn't have the class ...

Despite promises that many BioWare staff have found new roles elsewhere at EA, it seems quite a number of them have simply been let go.