Former Dragon Age Producer Leading New Game Studio at Wizards of the Coast

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For all its wealth of IP holdings and powerful franchises, Wizards of the Coast hasn't had all that much luck with its video game outings over the years. Time and again, the company has tried breaking through, but it's yet to truly capture the RPG video game audiences with a real smash hit, though its latest investment in this regard may be its most prominent one yet.

Namely, Wizards of the Coast has now founded an all-new game development studio by the name of Skeleton Key, and its focus seems to lie in fully fledged AAA game production. Perhaps most importantly, Skeleton Key is being headed by Christian Dailey, a former BioWare executive and one of the people responsible for Dragon Age's success as a flagship RPG title.

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Dailey took to Twitter earlier today to announce that Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast were hiring him to head Skeleton Key from the very start. Dailey's previous work includes a wide variety of prominent BioWare projects, one of the most prominent of which was Dragon Age: Origins. Billed as one of the most inventive and complex fantasy worlds in all gaming, Dragon Age is a huge cornerstone of Dailey's career, and it's bound to make him a key asset for Skeleton Key in the long run.

Also noteworthy is that Christian Dailey was working on Anthem 2.0. While that project never took off properly, Dailey's team worked hard on reviving the game after its widely panned release, which gives him key experience in working on live-service titles. This, too, may be an avenue that Wizards of the Coast may wish to explore with Skeleton Key in the future, though the studio is yet to announce much of anything about its first AAA production.

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