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BioWare pitched a Dragon Age trilogy remaster but EA turned it down because it's 'against remasters' – 'It's strange for a publicly-traded company to seemingly be against free money' says series veteran

A remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched to EA, but turned down because the publisher is "against remasters".

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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'

"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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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'

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

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore

BioWare had floated the idea in the past, but it never went anywhere.

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An All-Time Great BioWare RPG Is Still Worth Playing Today, Even Without A Remaster

Another BioWare series could have gotten a remaster after 'Mass Effect Legacy Collection' but not having one shouldn't stop you from playing an already-great RPG.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is "a strong signal" that players don't just want live-service games, BioWare veteran says, but GTA 6's success will be a real indicator of the industry

"If GTA 6 doesn't sell 70, 80 million copies or whatever GTA 5 sold, then that's going to signal something"

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Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats

Oh no! I'm so scared, I guess

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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

The devs had contemplated "'is there a way we can bring Dragon Age: Origins forward?'"

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EA Kills Hopes for Dragon Age: Origins Remaster — Former BioWare Developer Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Secrets on the Dragon Age and Mass Effect Series

During an interview, former BioWare developer Mark Darrah revealed that EA cancelled plans for a Dragon Age: Origins remaster and Mass Effect: Andromeda DLC, among other insightful behind-the-scenes stories on BioWare.

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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"

Ex-exec Mark Darrah says there was interest at the studio for a Dragon Age: Legendary Edition

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The dialogue wheel was the worst thing to happen to RPGs, it's robbed us all for years, and I'm glad it's dying out

Emotions are more than just nice, sassy, and mean.

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Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"

It all makes sense now

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Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'

Never write a check you can't cash.

PC Gamer

"It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"

Mark Darrah opens up about why Anthem failed in a new YouTube video

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Mass Effect’s upcoming live action TV show needs to abandon Shepard if it wants to succeed

I really need this one to be good, on a personal level.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's outsourcing allowed the RPG's in-house team to stay "very focused on building that core," speculates former Dragon Age dev: "Everyone was able to synergize together"

BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says Clair Obscur has "very focused, very clearly delineated areas of outsourcing"

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The Expanse RPG's developers are 'humbled' by comparisons to BioWare's heyday, but don't expect it to be a straight Mass Effect clone: 'We make our story a little bit differently'

"We’re making more choices and consequences."

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Awards Stir Controversy as Fans Clash Over Mixed Reviews and LGBTQ+ Representation

Despite winning three awards at the 2025 Gayming Awards, including Game of the Year, Dragon Age: The Veilguard continues to divide fans over mixed reviews.

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The Expanse RPG is taking "great inspiration" from Mass Effect with romance, deep choices, and third-person combat: "It's an iconic game"

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn developers at Owlcat Games grew up on the BioWare series

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EA is killing a game I didn't even know was alive

EA has announced that its ambitious live-service extraction shooter, Anthem, will sunset servers on January 12, 2026. The game will be unplayable, as it was designed to be an online-only experience.

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Surprise! The Anthem servers are still running—but they won't be after January 12

Now it's really over.

GamesRadar

How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"

Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"

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New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect

The last Dragon Age game we're likely to see for a very long while was in trouble right from the start.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard dialogue was reportedly rewritten to be more serious after BioWare worried it would face the same backlash as Forspoken for being too snarky

Forspoken seemingly had an indirect influence on BioWare's latest RPG

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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

EA doesn't seem to understand what makes a good RPG

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