Corinne Busche

BioWare has confirmed Dragon Age: The Veilguard takes place 10 years after its predecessor Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Following BioWare's recent announcement that its upcoming Dragon Age entry Dreadwolf is now instead called The Veilguard, lead developers reveal what prompted the name change.

Former Dragon Age executive producer and current Veilguard consultant Mark Darrah has said the upcoming game is the first in the series where the combat is legitimately fun.

Former Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah left BioWare in 2020, commenting that "I know that Dragon Age won't just survive without me, it will thrive". We'll never quite learn the truth of that claim, for Darrah has now rejoined BioWare to work as a consultant on the recently revealed Dragon Age: The Veilguard. He reckons it's thriving. Specifically, he thinks this is the most enjoyable Dragon Age's combat has ever been. Shhh, nobody tell the Inquisition.

Unlike previous entries, which featured a mix of real-time with pause and turn-based combat, Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s battle system is completely real-time. It’s a natural evolution for BioWare, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely abandoned its roots. An Ability Wheel is present for players to select companion abilities, create combos and even specify targets to attack.

BioWare continues to dispense new details about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, this time as part of Game Informer’s cover story. After discussing how each class has a unique Skill Tree for further defining play styles and Specializations, director Corinne Busche outlined how it works.

BioWare recently hosted a Q&A session for Dragon Age: The Veilguard on Discord, offering even more details on top of everything revealed last week. It includes the title being completely playable offline. There isn’t even a need to link to your EA account, per game director Corinne Busche.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is set to have sprawling skill trees for each class that take inspiration from Final Fantasy 10's Sphere Grid and Final Fantasy 12's License Board.

Bioware has confirmed that Dragon Age: The Veilguard will not be open-world, but «mission-based».

Dragon Age may have started out as a CRPG, but with time, the series has increasingly committed to becoming a more action-driven experience instead, and it looks like the upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard will keep that trajectory going. But though the game’s combat is clearly going be significantly more action-focused than Origins or even Inquisition, where its progression mechanics are concerned, it doesn’t look like BioWare is trying to dial things down.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't be an open world game. That much was clarified by one of the two game directors, Corinne Busche, who said it would be mission-based for the most part.

It’s been a decade - 10 years! - since Dragon Age: Inquisition. It’s fair to assume that you might’ve forgotten what happened during the last Dragon Age game, or some of the specific choices you made back in the misty ages of 2014. Whether you remember or not, this year’s long-awaited sequel Dragon Age: The Veilguard should have you covered, with the ability to carry over your story choices from the previous game and get a refresher on what happened last time around.

At Summer Game Fest 2024, BioWare has finally revealed a lot about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the fourth mainline installment in the fantasy RPG franchise.

For all the details that BioWare has provided on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the character creator is something that we’ve yet to see. Origins are confirmed, with players able to select different factions, but what about the options for crafting your own Rook? Thankfully, Eurogamer’s preview of the first hour indicates many available options.

Along with outlining the character creator, Eurogamer’s preview of Dragon Age: The Veilguard also revealed a Playstyle category. This is after choosing your Specialization, with the Rogue getting Duelist, Saboteur or Veil Ranger.

Following its extended gameplay reveal of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare has dropped several details about the upcoming RPG. We didn’t get to see too much from the combat since it was at an early point in the story, but a recent preview by Eurogamer has provided some new information.

More details on Dragon Age: The Veilguard are starting to emerge now that the game has finally been shown off. The main points are all rather evident if you've watched the gameplay demonstration: it's a full action RPG, dialogue wheels still exist, and you play as a completely custom character. But something from IGN's preview in particular has caught our eye.

BioWare and EA recently premiered a 20-minute gameplay reveal for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and to go along with that, new details on the action RPG have also emerged courtesy of previews published by a number of outlets.

With 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, BioWare delivered the series’ largest, most open-ended instalment, letting players explore a number of vast, open world maps at their own leisure, so it’s no surprise that many had been expecting that the series’ next game would do something similar, or maybe even go fully open world (especially since subsequent BioWare releases like Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem did so as well). It turns out, however, that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is not going to be open world after all.

BioWare doesn't have the best track record with hair. In their quest to create their own version of Shepard or Hawke, players have typically struggled with a limited number of hairstyles, most of which looks, well, bad.

Previously, BioWare general manager Gary McKay told IGN in an interview that Dragon Age: The Veilguard will allow you to "romance the companions you want," sparking speculation that the fourth game in the series would be making a change to the way romances were handled in previous entries.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is off to an interesting start, to say the least. Coming off the somewhat controversial decision to change the name, BioWare re-introduced the series to fans with a two-minute trailer that drew unfavorable comparisons to Fortnite and Marvel. BioWare quickly followed with a twenty-second tease that was met much more positively – yet another jolting turn in what has been a rollercoaster decade for the franchise since Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Yes, you will be able to carry over your decisions from previous Dragon Age games into The Veilguard — it'll just work a little differently this time.

This story is part of our Summer Gaming Marathon series.

BioWare is teasing Dragon Age: Dreadwolf in a new trailer unveiled for Dragon Age Day. The teaser passes over a map of Thedas with several voiceovers giving some hint of what’s on the horizon when the game releases.

It is finally a good day to be a Dragon Age fan. After months of no news, middling news, and bad news, BioWare released a short teaser trailer for Dragon Age Dreadwolf earlier today, offering a glimpse at Thedas ahead of a new "full reveal" scheduled for summer 2024.