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"It's a really compelling place to be left in": Dragon Age fans aren't giving up on the RPG – they're expanding it

Feature | The Mod Team on creating The World of Thedas' third volume amid the uncertainty at BioWare

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The best narrative designers – from Call of Duty writers to BioWare vets – are being inspired by the "excellent" design of your uncontrollable horniness: "I've been reading a lot of fanfiction"

Understood, have a nice day

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Dragon Age 2 was originally planned to be "much bigger" before EA made other demands, former series lead says, even though BioWare "did not know how to make a small game"

Quests were cut out wholesale

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Dragon Age creator says he 'had to take out half' of the quests in Dragon Age 2 once he found out they only had 16 months to make it: 'BioWare as a team did not know how to make a small game'

"We're going to measure twice, cut once."

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Tabletop gaming saved videogame RPGs

RPGs have evolved by embracing their history, and we're incredibly lucky that they did.

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5 years after it was revealed, KOTOR remake is "still in development," Saber boss confirms, as we await any morsel of info on the reimagined BioWare Star Wars RPG

"That's all I can say"

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The Witcher 4 might have just gained a BioWare veteran as CD Projekt Red hires new AI director — 'Amazing things to come!'

CD Projekt Red has hired a new AI director, Dorian Kieken, a former BioWare developer with credits on the Mass Effect series.

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CD Projekt Red welcomes new AI director, who joins The Witcher 4 studio "after 8 years of building memorable RPGs at BioWare" like Mass Effect 2 and 3

He's "responsible for the company's AI vision and strategy"

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5 years on, I still think about Mass Effect Legendary Edition's symbolic first trailer

Opinion | Mass Effect Legendary Edition's reveal trailer proves why remasters are still vital

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Mass Effect 5 would benefit from "taking lessons from Baldur's Gate 3" and being more of a "Bethesda-style game," Skyrim lead says

Bruce Nesmith chimes in on what he would like from the next BioWare RPG

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Anthem fan server project, which started "out of little more than spite for EA and Bioware," isn't making much progress

An engine can't run only on spite

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Mass Effect 5 starts hiring for a new lead developer as BioWare remains tight-lipped about its next RPG

EA's looking for a production director

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Anthem fan gets BioWare's looter shooter running again without EA's dead servers only days after shutdown, making a fan revival seem more likely than ever

That was fast

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Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing"

"By that argument, we should have never made Neverwinter Nights because we were a 2D RPG maker"

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"It took Anthem a very long time to admit to itself that it was a looter shooter," BioWare veteran says, which is why it was taking lessons from Diablo instead of Destiny

"From a design perspective, the number one touch point for Anthem was actually Diablo"

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Mass Effect 5 is going to release "a long time" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard because BioWare has become a "one project studio," veteran suggests

Mark Darrah says it's "probably for the best" since different teams won't be fighting for resources

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Anthem is dead after the game's shutdown, but it doesn't have to be — lead dev reveals code for private servers exists, "there to be salvaged and recovered"

EA may have shut down Anthem's official servers, but its executive producer says code for private ones exists and is "there to be salvaged and recovered."

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GOG director wants to help multiplayer games like Anthem "live forever" too, but fears increased regulation might lead to "fewer cool games for gamers": "I don't have the perfect answer yet"

"It's good that the discussion is taking place"

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Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround

Anthem Next was canned in early 2021

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Dispatch season 2 isn't even confirmed, but I'm already wondering how it could handle the battle of the best girl

Opinion | Whether Visi goes to the dark side or not is kind of neither here nor there

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Anthem "did permanent damage to the careers of a lot of game devs" says Dragon Age veteran, and he's not sure he or BioWare ever "came back" from its spectacular failure

Anthem's servers have now been shut down

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'All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain' — Players bid farewell to Anthem as EA officially shuts down the game's servers for good

Anthem servers have officially gone offline, making BioWare's 2019 online sci-fi shooter no longer playable, leaving players to share their final farewells.

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Anthem is finally, officially dead

It died as it lived: As a game with pretty fun flying.

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Anthem fans say goodbye to BioWare's looter shooter on its server shutdown day, mourning the "potential" that was lost: "Such a waste"

"People can feel how they want, but the potential this game had was undeniable"

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That Mass Effect 3 scene with Garrus, you know the one, made Shepard actor Jennifer Hale "break" because it took her "by surprise": "I was like no, no, no, Shepard doesn't cry"

Hale had no idea what was coming

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