Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from David Gaider

Ex Dragon Age writer's new studio shrugs off a failed Kickstarter, chucks its exorcist take on Slay the Spire right onto Steam – and it's a cool roguelike with a mana system I don't think I've ever seen

Malys is an interesting, inky roguelike card game

GamesRadar

Even after EA let Dragon Age: The Veilguard out of multiplayer hell, BioWare reportedly still had to rush to target "as wide a market as possible," which feels like the opposite approach of great RPGs

EA doesn't seem to understand what makes a good RPG

GamesRadar

"It was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits": Balatro's Localthunk joins team size discourse after Geoff Keighley fumbled it at Summer Game Fest by saying Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was made by "under 30" people

For many reasons, no

GamesRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat

Especially spooky stories.

PC Gamer

Ex-Dragon Age lead hopes Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 pulls an 'Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3' by leaning into the combat-light, roleplaying-heavy gameplay of the tabletop version

Which sounds alright to me, but maybe isn't quite what we're getting.

PC Gamer

After waiting over 20 years for Bloodlines 2, ex Dragon Age writer says "the hope is that we would get a new Vampire game in the same line as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3"

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has enormous potential even after many setbacks

GamesRadar

Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'

Which worked out very well.

PC Gamer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

'They're very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail': Former Dragon Age writer calls out 'anti-fans' who bet on games failing before launch

David Gaider criticized the way gamers have come to celebrate certain games' failures.

PC Gamer

Ex Dragon Age writer pushes back on RPG casts who are all romanceable and instantly into you: "That limits the different types of stories you can do"

Should you be able to date everyone in RPGs? David Gaider chimes in.

GamesRadar

Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"

Maybe they were right, but they shouldn't have said it

GamesRadar

Former Dragon Age lead writer says being at BioWare was "glorious," but under EA it "surrendered more and more of its independence until we got to where we got to"

David Gaider recalls the storied RPG developer's good and bad days

GamesRadar

Dragon Age legend says even if he didn't leave BioWare 9 years ago, he still would have dipped over EA's live service Dragon Age push: "What a devil's contract that would have been"

David Gaider wasn't hanging around for the Thedas battlepass

GamesRadar

Ex Dragon Age writer worries more fans are tying their identity to games and hoping to see games fail to prove a point: "See what happened to them? See how their game sold?"

"They're very determined suddenly to see your game fail as a sort of a lesson to others who would make games of the same type," says David Gaider

GamesRadar

"There's nothing about JRPGs that requires them to be made in Japan," says ex Dragon Age writer, speaking nothing but facts – and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just proves it again

"It's not a Japanese RPG, it's a Japanese-style RPG. And so that can be made anywhere"

GamesRadar

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'

Truly exceptional games don't just appeal to their audience, David Gaider says, they expand it.

GamesRadar

Ex Dragon Age writer says Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 prove publishers wrong on how successful RPGs can be "when the game is good," and "what's possible when a game is given time to cook"

"They appeal very, very strongly to that one audience, but it's so strong that it ends up growing that audience," says David Gaider

GamesRadar

Former Dragon Age lead David Gaider would love to make an RPG at his new home, but "our last hope to keep the studio alive" comes first – and it looks like a very promising roguelike

Malys is a slick roguelike deckbuilder from folks who can't help but put a little RPG in everything

GamesRadar

Former Dragon Age writer praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as "beautiful," saying it's "kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs"

BioWare veteran David Gaider is enjoying the new turn-based RPG

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

Dragon Age creator says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is 'kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs'

David Gaider's among the spellbound for Sandfall's latest hit.

PC Gamer

One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it

Someone put me in charge of videogames. I'll sort this right out.

PC Gamer

'EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up': Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect's team 'didn't get along' at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children

Two households, both alike in development (in fair BioWare, where we lay our scene).

GamesRadar

Former Dragon Age writer claims "EA always preferred Mass Effect" when he was at BioWare, and the RPG series "was always just shy of the axe since DA Origins"

"They never quite knew what to do with DA"

PC Gamer

Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO's suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: 'I'd probably quit'

Live service isn't the answer to everything.

GamesRadar

Legendary Dragon Age writer looks to Baldur's Gate 3 devs while giving EA advice after The Veilguard: "Follow Larian's lead and double down on that"

"The audience is still there"

PC Gamer

BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs

EA refused to acknowledge layoffs in yesterday's announcement about BioWare's downsizing, but they're happening.

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.