New Dragon Age still on track to exist, no release date given

Enlarge / May the Dread Wolf take you! (credit: BioWare)

Fans of BioWare's Dragon Age series got a nice little surprise today, as the studio dropped a four-minute highlight reel at the all-virtual Gamescom 2020 promising players that the next game is still in development, and that it's still going to be Dragon Age, even if we do have to keep waiting for approximately a million more years.

Dragon Age enthusiasts (me) have been waiting for concrete news about the next game in the series since 2015, when the Trespasser DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition all but literally offered itself up as a prologue. Although the existence of some kind of Dragon Age 4 was an open secret, it took years for the studio even to admit publicly there was indeed a new game in development. Instead, BioWare focused on science-fiction properties like Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem.

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  Given what we know from Trespasser and Tevinter Nights, odds are high this city is in Tevinter. Minrathous, perhaps?

The four-minute video features an array of studio leadership talking in very high-level terms about the game's development. Everyone featured promises that the game will be chock-full of characters we'll love, hate, or love to hate; epic boss fights; sweeping scenery; and all the fanciest technology the next console generation has to offer, all of which you'd expect to hear.

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