BioWare's developers are hard at work on Mass Effect, a brand new BioWare-created intellectual property, and an Xbox 360 exclusive, to be published by Microsoft. Mass Effect is an epic science-fiction role-playing game set in a spectacular new vision of the future. BioWare's new studio in Austin, Texas, has begun work on a new massively multiplayer online game, marking BioWare's entry into the MMO space. In 2006, BioWare formed a new group to develop games for handheld platforms, beginning with the Nintendo DS. Jade Empire, BioWare's first game based on a BioWare-created intellectual property, was released for Xbox in April 2005 to critical and commercial success, with a PC version scheduled for release early 2007, to be published by 2K Games.