BioWare has taken to X, "The Everything App" to announce that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold and finished development. While a faintly anachronistic concept in an age of digital distribution and day one patches, it's a show of confidence from BioWare that the nine-years-in-development game has indeed reached the finish line.
Beginning development in 2015 under former series lead Mike Laidlaw and with the code name "Joplin," the fourth Dragon Age game was formally rebooted in 2018, allegedly to fit EA's then live service-centric strategy. The game we now know as The Veilguard was then quietly retooled back into a single player experience after the studio's catastrophe with Anthem. We knew the game for a long time as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, with BioWare periodically teasing that the RPG was still on the way. Amid these multiple name and direction changes, BioWare saw numerous high profile staff departures—some willing, and some from layoffs.
