A 15-minute trailer arrives next week
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is no more. No, EA haven’t once again taken Dragon Age 4 back to the drawing board; instead, they’ve just changed its name. The next entry in their trad-fantasy RPG series is now calledDragon Age: The Veilguard, and we’ll get a “first look at gameplay” next week.
Without wishing to spoil anything, the name “Dreadwolf” refers to one of Dragon Age’s antagonists. According to ablog post from Gary McKay, Dragon Age’s executive producer, the name change is designed to reflect that “you and your companions – not your enemies – are the heart of this new experience.” There are apparently seven companions you’ll be bringing together over the course of the game to form the titular Veilguard.
“We brought everything to the table which, yes, even included a multiplayer concept. The time we spent experimenting and iterating gradually taught us a lot. This work, and the amazing support from EA, helped us re-focus on creating an incredible single player game, with all the choices, characters and world building you’d expect from us.”
I suppose that, in an industry that regularly death-marches developers to release a multiplayer game they’re ill-prepared to produce, then shuts them down when the game is predictably flawed, it is ultimately to EA’s credit that the swung back to letting BioWare make a singleplayer game. In this one instance.
We’ll finally get a proper look atDragon Age: The Veilguardon June 11th at 8am PT/4pm BST when a fifteen minute trailer is released via theDragon Age YouTube channel.
