The Next Dragon Age Game Will Be a “Live” Experience

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Bioware General Manager <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;CaseyDHudson">Casey Hudson<&sol;a> has said that the next <em>Dragon Age<&sol;em> game will be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;live&comma;” which according to Hudson means&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;designing a game for continued storytelling after the main story&period;” <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In a tweet made early this morning&comma; Hudson not only said the game will be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;live&comma;” but also focused on character and story&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;133559" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-133559" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-133559" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;25122353&sol;Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-12&period;22&period;09-PM&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-133559" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Casey Hudson&comma; Twitter<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In an article published by Eurogamer last year&comma; Bioware writer Alexis Kennedy let slip that a new <em>Dragon Age<&sol;em> game was in the works&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;There are huge differences between all of that and what I&&num;8217&semi;m working on at BioWare&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kennedy told Eurogamer before pausing to say&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; &&num;8220&semi;which I can now legitimately say is in the Dragon Age franchise although it has been known for a while&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Notionally it was a secret but&comma; because of who I was working with&comma; everyone who cared knew&comma;” Kennedy continued&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And then the day I started&comma; Mark Darrah &lbrack;executive producer of the Dragon Age franchise&rsqb; tweeted saying &&num;8216&semi;welcome to the Dragon Age franchise&&num;8217&semi;&comma; so I thought&comma; well&comma; I guess that&&num;8217&semi;s official now then&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Bioware had no further comment on said new <em>Dragon Age<&sol;em> game at the time&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Executive Producer Mark Darrah continued the newly reinvigorated conversation around the franchise after tweeting that the teams behind <em>Anthem<&sol;em> and <em>Dragon Age<&sol;em> are hard at work and that he’s excited to share more in the future&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Bioware is well-known and for the most part&comma; highly praised&comma; in regards to their games and their focus on single-player open-world storytelling&&num;8211&semi;specifically <em>Mass Effect<&sol;em> and <em>Dragon Age<&sol;em>&period; With Hudson’s tweet about how the next game in the franchise will be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;live&comma;” fans are left to wonder if he’s referring to the developer’s post-game story DLC&comma; like we’ve seen in past <em>Dragon Age<&sol;em>’s&comma; or if the game is shifting tonally to resemble something more akin to <em>Destiny<&sol;em> or Bioware’s upcoming title&comma; <em>Anthem<&sol;em>&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">For now&comma; we’ll just have to wait and see&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;