BioWare working on 'unannounced AAA project'?

By thorsen-ink, GameSpotPosted Jun 18, 2009 7:23 pm GMT

Source: A former employee's resume spotted by the online game-info crate-digger behind the Superannuation blog. What we heard: BioWare is a busy company. Besides this fall's high fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins, the Edmonton, Alberta-headquarted developer is prepping the high sci-fi...

Source: A former employee's resume spotted by the online game-info crate-digger behind the Superannuation blog.

What we heard: BioWare is a busy company. Besides this fall's high fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins, the Edmonton, Alberta-headquarted developer is prepping the high sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect 2, which scored a GameSpot E3 2009 Editors' Choice Award. Another winner was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the massively multiplayer RPG from BioWare's Austin, Texas, studio. To help out, the company also recently opened a branch inside the Montreal campus of its corporate parent, Electronic Arts.

This week, information surfaced that the prestigious shop may be working on yet another all-new IP. During one of its semiregular sweeps of the Internet, Superannuation picked up on the resume of a developer who worked as the "Principle [sic] Lead Designer" of "an unannounced 'AAA' project" at BioWare.

The designer left just this past April--long after the existence of all BioWare's current games were made public--meaning the title is likely still under wraps. He described his work on the project thusly: "Responsibilities include[d] the creation of a new IP and managing a team of designers, writers and level designers." (Emphasis added.) The reference to "new IP" appears to indicate the "New Next Gen Game" on BioWare's official site may be an all-new property, and not a relaunch of a classic franchise like the Baldur's Gate reboot Atari announced last December.

The official story: Multiple requests for comment sent to BioWare had not been answered as of press time.

Bogus or not bogus?: Looking not bogus--and not terribly surprising. A company of BioWare's size, talent, and creative ambition almost certainly has at least one unannounced game in the works.

170 Comments

  • MafiaBroad82

    Posted Jul 6, 2009 8:24 am GMT

    Jade Empire 2, PLEASE!!!!

  • Excedra

    Posted Jul 3, 2009 11:17 pm GMT

    KOTOR 3!!!!!!!!!!

  • dentui

    Posted Jul 1, 2009 1:10 am GMT

    KOTOR 3? I REALLY HOPE SO. KOTOR 1 and 2 left me wanting for more!.

  • WereAllCritics

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 8:04 am GMT

    please give us jade empire 2 or roman gladiator rpg or greek mythology rpg

  • BenBenBen93

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 1:09 am GMT

    i hope its its RPG again. Not starwars *cough* Mass Effect *cough* (well i love mass effect. in fact second fav game after Oblivion, but it is Star wars with out light sabers) perhaps Renaissance game as it seems to be the trend at the moment. Empire TW, Assassins Creed 2.

  • BenBenBen93

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 1:04 am GMT

    Bioware. you've never made a bad game.

  • Fuzzy__Slipperz

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 9:49 pm GMT

    @NovakainePunk
    a AAA game is a game that sells extremely good and has great reviews. Examples are Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, etc.

  • NovakainePuNK

    Posted Jun 25, 2009 10:45 am GMT

    Can someone explain what a "AAA" game is? I've heard it tossed around a lot, but never figured it out. I can only guess it means high quality of some sort...

  • pilatin1

    Posted Jun 23, 2009 8:59 pm GMT

    BioWare Is The Best 4Ever

  • Shell_Kracker

    Posted Jun 23, 2009 9:50 am GMT

    I would have liked a Jade Empire style game...

    ...set in India's mythology this time, rather than Chinese.

  • dark_k

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 7:23 am GMT

    This news annoys me somewhat, I was really hoping for Jade Empire 2. It would be a shame for a rich universe like JE to be forgotten. Altough saying that Im curious to find out what the new IP is, hopefully the setting and gameplay style will be something that hasnt been explored in RPGs. I am in full support of the rest of the Bioware announced titles and am eagerly awaiting DA:O

  • Uzriz

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 3:01 am GMT

    Hmmm so they're doing Sci-Fi, Old Fantasy and Star Wars universe games. What does that leave for a potential RPG ? JADE EMPIRE !!! Please let it be Jade Empire, that game had so much potential for lore and combat.

    -U-

  • CHEATSman115

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:18 pm GMT

    Bioware is awesome and all the games sound awesome.

  • dannyatkinson

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:12 am GMT

    I love Bioware but I do not care what they said I will continue to wait for Kotor3.
    I have zero interest in "The Old Republic".
    I am looking forward to Dragon age and Mass Effect 2 though.

  • T0012

    Posted Jun 20, 2009 1:34 pm GMT

    Maybe Bioware is just trying to offer what people have been asking for, i for one know any game they put out is normally a great game. So maybe they're giving us a new game to get hooked on that could be another franchise game like mass effect.

  • Valen_Ca

    Posted Jun 20, 2009 9:14 am GMT

    6 months into the future Bioware will announce that the new game is a Jade Empire MMORPG....

  • K_M82

    Posted Jun 19, 2009 6:35 pm GMT

    wow 4 (dragon age, mass effect 2, old republic, and this new game) concurrent project? i've never heard bioware take up that many project at the same time. usually it's only 1 or 2 concurrent project. i wonder if this is because they're with EA now so they can be a lot more generous now.

  • Bivibob

    Posted Jun 19, 2009 3:33 pm GMT

    Maybe video game companies don't care about the spelling on your resume, but then again, maybe he should correct the spelling of "principal" just to be safe.

  • blacknail7

    Posted Jun 19, 2009 3:13 pm GMT

    Of all the developers, BioWare's impressing me the most lately. I'm optimistic this will turn out alright.

  • man_alive

    Posted Jun 19, 2009 2:34 pm GMT

    If he was the lead designer and is now out of work, maybe this title has been cancelled already...

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