After the death of Dragon Age, it’s a megaton bummer to go back and hear BioWare’s founders talk about the series’ bright future

We’ve been digging back through the archives at PCG, and one particular hands-on experience and Q&A reached its icy hand out of the mists of time and grabbed me by the throat: Now-Strategic Director Evan Lahti’s preview of Dragon Age: Origins, and an accompanying interview with BioWare cofounders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk in 2009….

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I’ve always wanted to fire the infinite cannons of a giant anime battleship, and this solo dev’s giving me a chance on Steam later this year

Videogames have given me more opportunities to blow up titanic scifi battleships than I could ever hope to count. But I’ve rarely gotten the opportunity to experience the other side of that equation as the guy commanding the fleet’s worth of cannons, laser batteries, and missile bays bristling across a single massive floating monolith. One…

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Stop Killing Games delivers ‘absolutely incredible’ hearing in European Parliament: ‘There was no [parliament member] that wasn’t responding positively’

It’s amazing what a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they’re no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament…

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah says it’s valuable to have ‘an idiot at the table’ during game development—but only if they can remember who the experts are

A videogame is a product of combined expertise across dozens of disciplines. But in a recently-published Youtube video titled “Have an Idiot at the Table,” former BioWare producer Mark Darrah said it’s valuable during a game’s development to have someone with only a layman’s understanding present in discussions about design and direction—provided they understand when…

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Embark admits ‘grinding for monetary value’ isn’t fun, so future Arc Raiders Expeditions will reward you for smashing bots instead

Arc Raiders has many wonderful qualities that make it the most popular extraction shooter around, but its current Expeditions grind isn’t one of them. Serving as Arc’s take on the season wipe, Expeditions give players the option to reset their progress in exchange for permanent upgrades, like extra stash size and skill points. Up until…

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How many of these videogame horses can you name? (Or tell us what game they’re from because they’re just named ‘Horse’)

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Without fail, any time I see a horse in a game I immediately stop, cheerfully yell, “horse!” and rush the…

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