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MYSTERIOUS: 7 - What They Never Told You

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

GamesRadar

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.

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"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

GamesRadar

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.

Destructoid

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.

International Business Times UK

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.

Windows Central

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

Now it's really over.

PC Gamer

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"

GamesRadar

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.

PC Gamer

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

GamesRadar

Mass Effect 5 director reacts to The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new sci-fi action RPG reminiscent of BioWare's own beloved series: "Looking pretty awesome"

Michael Gamble likes what he sees

GamesRadar

Mass Effect 5 director hints that the sci-fi RPG series' notorious lens flares will be back in the next game, as BioWare apparently goes head-to-head with JJ Abrams

Bring your sunglasses

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Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat

Especially spooky stories.

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Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'

Which worked out very well.

PC Gamer

The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce

Tabletop roleplaying drives videogame RPGs to be better.

GamesRadar

Ex Dragon Age writer pushes back on RPG casts who are all romanceable and instantly into you: "That limits the different types of stories you can do"

Should you be able to date everyone in RPGs? David Gaider chimes in.

GamesRadar

Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"

Maybe they were right, but they shouldn't have said it

GamesRadar

Former Dragon Age lead writer says being at BioWare was "glorious," but under EA it "surrendered more and more of its independence until we got to where we got to"

David Gaider recalls the storied RPG developer's good and bad days

GamesRadar

Dragon Age legend says even if he didn't leave BioWare 9 years ago, he still would have dipped over EA's live service Dragon Age push: "What a devil's contract that would have been"

David Gaider wasn't hanging around for the Thedas battlepass

PC Gamer

'We'll call you back': BioWare's first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to 'create the best RPG game ever'

A lack of experience can sometimes be a blessing.

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