Dragon Age: Dreadwolf's Title Means Nothing And Everything

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Dragon Age 4's title has now been officially revealed, with BioWare confirming the game will be called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. That means we can all stop calling it Dragon Age 4 and call it by its proper name: DAD. BioWare is definitely giving me some DADdy issues, as I find myself having far more faith in the next Dragon Age than I do in the next Mass Effect, despite ostensibly preferring the space opera to the fantasy saga. Even with no gameplay footage and very little of note at all to go on, DAD is my most anticipated game of... well, whatever year it's going to come out in. 2037, probably.

There has already been some debate about the title itself. Clearly it refers to Solas, who was already implied to be the central villain in an earlier trailer, but there is the minor issue of a space. We here at TheGamer (no spaces) know how important a space can be, and the most eccentric corners of the fandom have already spiralled into a wild array of theories while inhaling vast amounts of copium. Solas is called The Dread Wolf in Dragon Age Inquisition, but the game's title is Dreadwolf. Dread Wolf, Dreadwolf. It's the difference between The Gamer and TheGamer, which means it feels massive, but probably doesn't mean very much.

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Our name, if I haven't already mentioned it, is TheGamer. No spaces. But if you've seen our name mentioned in certain accolade trailers, you may have noticed us credited as The Gamer. It doesn't really matter, even if I often insist to PR representatives that it does. Likewise, the Dreadwolf/Dread Wolf split feels important to people looking to care (just as we care enough to ask PR people nicely to call us TheGamer), but ultimately does