Thanks to EA and BioWare, I was treated to a special, extended, hands-on preview of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I first previewed the game at Summer Game Fest 2024 in a hands-off group demonstration earlier this month,

Leaning on companions? Borrowing from the structure of Mass Effect 2 and 3? References to Final Fantasy 10 and 12 for RPG systems? Pinch me.

Nevertheless, the devs have shared that they have learned their lessons, and Dragon Age The Veilguard will most probably be their return to form. In 2019, Anthem was intended to be BioWare's bold step into a new genre,

Dragon Age Inquisition was one of the best titles of 2014, and everyone knew it, and yet, an odd statement about it went around!

In a mildly surprising revelation a decade on from the launch of BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition, it turns out the developers' last venture to Thedas was wildly successful and "massively" oversold EA's internal projections.

Back in June, during Summer Games Fest, I was able to sit down for a behind-closed-doors preview. However, that session was strictly hands-off; we were only able to watch the presenter go through the character creator and play the game's opening prologue. My hands-on at publisher EA was significantly more eye-opening -- and exciting.

The Veilguard is going to have its work cut out for it when it comes to orienting players in its world. Not just because it's the fourth game in a series whose last game came out 10 years ago, but because the beginning of its story hinges on a DLC chapter from that game.

During a developer Q&A at publisher Electronic Arts’ Redwood City studio, an audience member asked how BioWare decides what choices are canon when making new games, and Epler’s answer was refreshing to hear: BioWare doesn’t want to undermine players’ choices.

The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche says that "both the greatest challenge and the most interesting opportunity" in working on the game