Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches this fall

BioWare is announcing the merchandise day for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and sharing a caller trailer to commemorate the occasion. Players volition beryllium capable to instrumentality to Thedas — the sanction of the game’s satellite that is simultaneously a clever acronym for The Dragon Age Setting — connected October 31st, much than 10 years aft the merchandise of the erstwhile game, Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Oh man, there’s immoderate lore going connected successful this caller trailer. Up until now, fans assumed that Solas, a companion from Inquisition who went rogue during the events of the game’s Trespasser DLC, would beryllium the main atrocious guy. But this trailer confirms a burgeoning assemblage mentation that Solas is conscionable a tiny fry compared to the game’s existent large baddies — the Elven gods.

BioWare announced Veilguard backmost successful 2018 but shared precise fewer substantive updates until 2022. In the intervening time, immoderate elder endowment near the studio, including wide manager Casey Hudson, enforcement shaper Mark Darrah, accumulation manager Mac Walters, and elder originative shaper Matt Goldman. Several employees, including respective BioWare veterans, were besides mislaid to layoffs.

Development connected Veilguard was besides impacted by changing trends successful the video crippled industry. After the captious and commercialized nonaccomplishment of Anthem, BioWare’s MMO-style enactment RPG with flying exosuits, BioWare’s genitor institution EA canceled the planned multiplayer elements for Veilguard successful hopes of capturing the benignant of occurrence enjoyed by different EA-produced single-player games similar Jedi: Fallen Order.

Veilguard volition beryllium disposable for preorder contiguous for $59.99 connected PC and $69.99 connected Xbox and PlayStation. Though the agelong improvement cycle, layoffs, and departures person fans acrophobic astir the imaginable prime of the game, Veilguard arrives erstwhile single-player communicative games are experiencing immense success, astir notably 2023’s crippled of the year, Baldur’s Gate 3. Comparisons betwixt the 2 are inevitable, but based connected this trailer — we are truthful precise back.