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Gale, from Baldur's Gate 3, looks over his shoulder in a sorrowful way - with the Dungeon Master logo overlaid on top.
RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them

By Harvey Randall Published

LOVE-HATE You're in this together.

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Dragon Age's former producer had envisioned a 'Champions Edition' equivalent to Mass Effect's Legendary Edition, but he doesn't think it will happen anymore: 'There are basically no companies that could help you'

By Rick Lane Published

News "There's basically no one outside of BioWare anymore that understands the Aurora engine."

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Rook and Davrin
EA is 'a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,' former Dragon Age boss says, and that's why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried

By Andy Chalk Published

news Mark Darrah doesn't think there's anyone left at BioWare who would pitch a new Dragon Age game, and he doesn't think studio executives would let anyone else do it either.

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An elf in a forest draws his bow
Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'

By Justin Wagner Published

News Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?

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EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Also, the debt. The $20 billion debt thing.

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Riding into a party in Dragon Age: Inquisition
I'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play

By Jeremy Peel Published

Ages past Dragon Age: The Last Court featured some of the series' very best writing. Or so I'm led to believe.

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'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019⁠—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard

By Ted Litchfield Published

News It's unclear if Darrah is saying BioWare would have made project Joplin instead of Anthem, or that Anthem would have come later.

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Bellara from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a Dalish veil jumper elf, looks in a smitten fashion up at the player character.
'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Within EA, you're better off being 'one game at a time'."

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The Veilguard - Neve grimaces and uses magic to fend off a magical punch
Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need'

By Robin Valentine Published

NEWS "To be frank the Mass Effect team is going to be able to point to The Veilguard and say 'we should steer away from some of these things, because look what happened'."

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Two armored dwarves stand side by side
Dragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "Financial reasons" are why it spawned multiple sequels, unsurprisingly.

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