Latest about Dragon Age
"EA has a huge repository of dormant IPs that are just sitting there" after $55 billion buyout, says former Dragon Age and Anthem producer, so it could make better "financial sense" to sell studios instead of shutting them down
News Selling IPs could help deal with that impending $20 billion of debt
Former Dragon Age director says it's "hard to imagine" BioWare pivoting from "very progressive messaging to having the reverse" following EA's $55 billion buyout, and public perception not being "apocalyptically bad" if it did
News He also questions if The Sims would fit into the "messaging desires of the three groups that are involved in the acquisition"
EA goes $20 billion in debt as part of its $55 billion buyout, and the BioWare fans who've already waited 8 years for Mass Effect 5 are terrified of how the company might cut costs
News "It's over, Commander"
Dragon Age: Origins was "intended as a standalone game" rather than the first in a series of RPGs, former dev says, meaning BioWare left "a lot of threads" it wasn't expecting to "come back to"
News Some of those threads "kind of had to be abandoned," says Mark Darrah
Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats
News Oh no! I'm so scared, I guess
BioWare considered paying a team to "do a remake" of Dragon Age: Origins, former executive producer reveals, and "there were lots of pitches" around upgrading the old RPG
News The devs had contemplated "'is there a way we can bring Dragon Age: Origins forward?'"
BioWare apparently wanted to make a Mass Effect-style remaster collection for Dragon Age, but EA's not too keen: "It's strange for a publicly traded company to basically be against free money"
News Ex-exec Mark Darrah says there was interest at the studio for a Dragon Age: Legendary Edition
Even after EA let Dragon Age: The Veilguard out of multiplayer hell, BioWare reportedly still had to rush to target "as wide a market as possible," which feels like the opposite approach of great RPGs
News EA doesn't seem to understand what makes a good RPG
