We met up with Mike Laidlaw, lead designer on Dragon Age: Origins at Bioware, next to the giant dragon outside the Dragon Age room in the EA booth at this year's E3. Why was the decision made to launch console and PC versions simultaneously? What did Bioware show off behind closed doors? And why did Bioware move away from creating games based on licenses to their own original properties? Answers to these questions and more are provided in the interview...
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Game facts
Dragon Age: Origins
Genre
RPG
Developer
Bioware
Publisher
EA
Release date
5 November 2009
Platforms
PC
PS3
Xbox 360
Mac
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23
Editions
Each with its own newsroom and its own scores.
1998
Publishing since
Independently owned for the whole of it.
100%
Hands-on
Written from time with the game, never press material.
1–10
Network Score
Every edition’s score, averaged and shown.