Dragon Age - Hiring For New Game?

PCGamesN believes that the hiring of Sunless Seas' lead writer Alexis Kennedy indicates a new Dragon Age game is in the works.

Kennedy will be working with Dragon Age creator Mike Laidlaw and lead writer Patrick Weekes. This is also not the first time Kennedy would be tied to the franchise, what with him being responsible for Dragon Age spin-off The Last Court.

As Eurogamer notes, Mass Effect: Andromeda is wrapping up and Laidlaw and Weekes are not tied to the new IP BioWare have been teasing. Speaking to Eurogamer, Kennedy explained that work was already underway, though he was tight-lipped about the game's identity.

"I'll be starting in January for a six-month-plus engagement," he said. "Writers are treated well at BioWare, but they're working within a clear structure - that they're samurai, not daimyo. I've been saying I'm a writing ronin, so I guess I'll get to sleep in their castle and eat their rice and fight their battles for a bit before I disappear into the howling fog once more.

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I'd rather be a Bioware ronin than a Bioware samurai any day. People sworn to their service end up assassinated, exiled, or forced to commit seppuku alarmingly often.

NOW HIRING: Giant bears. Must be large, aggressive and willing to respawn.

BioWare hired lots of new people in the last year, including at least 3 Naughty Dogs developers. I'm not sure why that warrant a news post.

The fact that a new DA game is in the work isn't new. Mark Darrah, Mike Laidlaw and Patrick Weekes haven't been coy about working on it if you follow the DA twitter thread on the BSN (old and fan version).

Azarhal, my friend, you assume that everybody has as much time as you apparently have to look for the news on the net.
Well, I don't.
So I didn't know about that.
So I'm glad that Silver posted about it.
So there…

Time for another round of Dragon Age grumbling…

Originally Posted by zahratustra
Azarhal, my friend, you assume that everybody has as much time as you apparently have to look for the news on the net.
Well, I don't.
So I didn't know about that.
So I'm glad that Silver posted about it.
So there…

Daily reading of thread titles on page 1 of Neogaf gaming section is really all you need to learn everything when it comes to gaming news. lol

Originally Posted by Ovenall
NOW HIRING: Giant bears. Must be large, aggressive and willing to respawn.

I never knew you had an alt, Joxer.

That said, DA:I rekindled my love for the age of dragons, despite the early controller issues. I enjoyed the story, characters, etc. I wish them luck!