Yesterday's BioWare studio update left fans of the studio feeling very anxious about Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. BioWare General Manager Gary McKay tried to assure the public that the layoffs of 50 employees wouldn't meaningfully affect the final development stretch of the fourth mainline installment in the Dragon Age series, but his words rang a bit hollow among the community.
Just a few minutes ago, during his Game Mess Morning live stream, Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb shared additional insight from his sources at BioWare/EA on the outlook of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. In short, the game is now targeting a Summer 2024 launch window, although Grubb believes
For a while there, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf could have come out this year. In fact, internally at one point the date that they were looking at was next month, September 2023. But internally, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf keeps getting pushed back. They moved the internal expectations to March 2024 a while ago. Guess what? It's not coming out then, either. It's been pushed back again. It is not coming out until Summer 2024 at the earliest at this point.
This is not them talking publically, this is from my reporting. But if it moves again, don't be surprised in any way. I think it's very likely it will be moved back even further. I expect this game to launch probably by the end of next year. But why launch it at the end of next year when you could move it to the last EA fiscal quarter, which ends in March 2025? This thing could keep moving. Again, Summer 2024 is what they're looking at at the earliest.
How are they finishing Dragon Age: Dreadwolf? Guess what, they're bringing in people from the Mass Effect team, which is being drained a little bit so that more people can come work on
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