In case you needed another official confirmation for Dragon Age 4, just this past 24 hours, Mark Darrah has confirmed Dragon Age 4 is in production once more at Pax West, I'll get into this soon, first for those who don't know, let me recap the past confirmations of Dragon Age 4 being in production.
The crazy confirmations of Dragon Age 4 started since Alexis Kennedy confirmed that he was writing freelance at BioWare back in 2017, since then his approach to writing about death will reportedly greatly affect aspects of the Dragon Age 4 narrative, this is due to the writer's own experiences of death and lose.
Another great example of how BioWare use real life stories and experiences to influence and shape the way of their worlds and characters, making the game feel ever so more real, relatable and deep. I can't wait to see what Alexis has been working on in Thedas, I believe this will boot Dragon Age back into it's established dark fantasy genre, just like Origins.
Then, if you cast your mind back to January/February 2018, we had our first official announcement of Dragon Age 4. The game has been nicknamed 'Project Joplin', titled after Janis Joplin, the phenomenal rock star of her era. Just like Anthem was codenamed 'Project Dylan' after Bob Dylan who revolutionised his genre of music, Anthem is looking to do the same to it's dicey co-op genre, blowing Destiny and Division types of games out of the water.
Potentially, 'Project Joplin' is an allegory for Dragon Age 4 to be the game BioWare are setting out to be the greatest game in the RPG genre, a "Janis Joplin" of a game would be the best of it's era, that's more than just one genre, that's like the entire industry. Something that games like Skyrim and GTA have been done for revolutionising, only time will tell if Dragon Age 4 can be so inspiring.
Alongside this confirmation, Dragon Age 4 was confirmed to have "live service elements", which I will get too rather soon, as we've received more information surrounding this just last weekend.
And the most recent confirmation, pre-PAX was (of course) around E3 time when Mark Darrah announced that he was both the executive producer of Anthem and a Dragon Age 4, Darrah said that development was going 'swell.'
We discovered that the game was under production by a skeleton team, the majority of BioWare inhouse, were moved to work on Anthem, only key developers on Dragon Age 4 remained to stay and work on the bare bones of the next game.
Post-Pax West, according to many sources, Matt Grigsby being the main one, Mark Darrah confirmed Dragon Age 4 is in the works once more whilst the Triforce Quartet played the Dragon Age: Inquisition theme. Hurrah!