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PS Plus getting arguably the best RPG of 2024 on PS5 and PS5 Pro for free

PS Plus subscribers are arguably getting the best game drop in the service's history this March.

PlayStation Is Adding One Of The Year’s Best RPGs Sooner Than You'd Think

PlayStation Plus will have one of its strongest line ups ever next month, headlined by 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' less than half a year after release.

Inverse

Jade Empire could've joined Dragon Age and Mass Effect as "another franchise" if it wasn't for Xbox’s "absolute moronic advice," says BioWare co-founder

Greg Zeschuk wanted to release the cult classic RPG as an Xbox 360 launch game

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BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk considered taking over EA 'from the inside', but he was thwarted by an MMO

Star Wars: The Old Republic wasn't quite successful enough to be used as the basis for a coup.

PC Gamer

23 Years Later, A Classic BioWare RPG Just Got A Surprising Update

Twenty-three years after its in initial release, Neverwinter Nights is officially getting a new story expansion, called Doom of Icewind Dale.

Inverse

BioWare co-founder dreamt of taking over EA "from the inside" if Star Wars: The Old Republic was, "like, $2 billion a year successful"

Greg Zeschuk doesn't like big companies as they "exist to exploit properties"

GamesRadar

Too many RPGs don't get that 'choices that matter' isn't just about cause and effect, but Avowed does

I want choices that matter to me, not just to the game.

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BioWare veteran calls out the 'cruelty' of fans celebrating layoffs: 'You are crossing a line, and you're probably attacking the wrong person anyway'

"You don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at."

PC Gamer

Dragon Age and Anthem producer says stop harassing developers "because you don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at"

Former BioWare executive Mark Darrah says "be a human being, have some empathy"

GamesRadar

Former EA exec says the ailing mega-publisher missed a chance to snag Blizzard and other heavy hitters before Activision: 'EA saw all those first and passed on all of them'

I wonder how that would have gone.

PC Gamer

‘Less Star Wars – more Blade Runner’: the making of Mass Effect 2’s Bafta-nominated soundtrack

A blind audition, a fruitful collaboration, a tense creative fallout: composer Jack Wall’s journey through the Mass Effect universe was as epic as the player’s

The Guardian - UK

Top of the flops: just what does the games industry deem ‘success’ any more?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has reached 1.5 million gamers around the world – yet its developers have labelled it a disappointment. With unfair expectations, it’s the niche and left-field titles that will suffer

The Guardian - UK

BioWare's Sonic The Hedgehog RPG "actually uses Dragon Age: Origins dialogue system heavily streamlined to fit on the Nintendo DS"

A former Dragon Age executive producer reveals, though you could argue Origins actually uses Sonic's dialogue system

GamesRadar

Former Epic and BioWare devs reveal their new co-op action RPG, a gorgeous sky-high dungeon adventure "in a fully breakable world"

"What if we take the juggling from fighting games, and make it the combat foundation in a co-op action RPG?"

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Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO's suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: 'I'd probably quit'

Live service isn't the answer to everything.

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Days after EA CEO suggests players crave live service guff, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss says their single-player RPG made all its money back in one day

Amid Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformance, Andrew Wilson reckoned players seek "shared-world" features

GamesRadar

As EA hints The Veilguard's low sales could be due to a lack of live service elements, former Dragon Age lead calls out "silly" demands to "fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved"

"Just thinking out loud, of course"

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Legendary Dragon Age writer looks to Baldur's Gate 3 devs while giving EA advice after The Veilguard: "Follow Larian's lead and double down on that"

"The audience is still there"

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EA is predictably learning the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard's failure

EA blames the failures of Dragon Age on a lack of shared-world experiences.

GamesRadar

Dragon Age 2 director acknowledges "really fast rush" behind the RPG's development as the team tried to "jump on the grenade that was being placed in front of BioWare"

An MMO like Star Wars: The Old Republic is a pretty big grenade, after all

Inverse

No, Gaming's Worst Trend Would Not Have Saved The Most Overlooked RPG

'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' might have been better off as a live-service game, according to the CEO of the company that removed its live-service elements.

PC Gamer

EA has learned all the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's going to be disastrous for the future of Mass Effect 5—if it even has a future

No EA RPG is safe from the publisher's obsession with live service.

GamesRadar

Dragon Age: The Veilguard was loved by "those who played," EA insists, but "it did not resonate with a broad enough audience"

The RPG released into a "highly competitive market"

PC Gamer

It sure sounds like Electronic Arts thinks cutting Dragon Age: The Veilguard's live service components was a mistake

CEO Andrew Wilson said Veilguard "had a high quality launch and was well-reviewed," but failed to "resonate" with gamers who want "shared-world features."

PC Gamer

Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways'

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