Jade Empire

BioWare Interview, Part One

BioWare’s Ray Muzyka fields questions about the company’s work ethic, Dragon Age: Origins’ marketing campaign, their plans for Mass Effect 2 DLC, and much more in the first installment to a multi-part interview on IncGamers. BioWare has traditionally worked largely…

BioWare Interview

Ten Ton Hammer has published a two-page, article-style interview they conducted with BioWare doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk about their roots in the medical field and their eventual transition to video game development. It’s hard to imagine that such…

Experienced Points: The Writers of BioWare

Shamus Young returns for another “Experienced Points” editorial on The Escapist, this time pointing out the glaring similarities between the companions we’ve recruited in Jade Empire, Star Wars: KotOR, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age: Origins. The Remorseless Killer Examples: Sten…

BioWare’s Other Half Hit With Layoffs

Remember when EA purchased BioWare/Pandemic just over two years ago and there was much happiness and excitement surrounding the acquisition? Something tells me the joy has since been replaced with something else, at least on the Pandemic side of things.…

Greg Zeschuk Video Interview

1UP’s GameVideos service is hosting an interesting three-part video interview with BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk. The series spans a total of 33 minutes worth of discussion about Dragon Age: Origins, the company’s history, their previous RPGs, and a whole lot…

Eight BioWare Moments That Shocked Us

Apparently BioWare didn’t even exist prior to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, because none of the company’s eight most “shocking” moments cited by GameDaily go back any farther than 2003. Jade Empire: That little girl’s got bite! As…

Mass Effect 2/Dragon Age: Origins Interview

Polygamia.pl has interviewed Jay Watamaniuk of BioWare, asking him mostly about Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, but also about various other, more general topics. Aren’t you afraid that you moved the genre forward with ME, but Dragon Age…

The History of BioWare

Dutch website GameCloud has published an interesting article that briefly covers the history of BioWare and the games they’ve developed over the years. Several pictures complement the article, though English speakers will have to make use of this Google translation…

Greg Zeschuk Interview

Crispy Gamer had the opportunity to grill BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk during this year’s PAX about Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Jade Empire, and more. Crispy Gamer: I spoke briefly with Mac Walters about the Greywardens and their similarities…

Consider, BioWare, The Non-Epic RPG

Kotaku is tired of saving the world in every BioWare-developed RPG, so they grilled co-founder Greg Zeschuk during PAX about why all of their games seem so formulaic. When Zeschuk and I spoke a couple of weeks ago at the…