Rumour: Bioware's new IP influenced by Destiny and Division

Journalist Liam Robertson claims to know more details.
Text: Sam Bishop
Published 2017-04-11

Journalist Liam Robertson has recently shared what he claims to be information on Bioware's new IP on his Patreon podcast, stuff that he's "100% sure" of (as reported by IBTimes).

Apparently, this new IP, which was teased three years ago, is influenced by both Destiny and The Division, and is a sci-fi game with co-op play and elements from MMOs. It's also apparently named or codenamed Dylan as well, for some reason.

"They've been quiet about what their new IP is for a good while," Robertson said. "This is a project that's been in development for around four years. It's currently set to be revealed at E3 2017... I don't know if they've said this publicly [but] it's set to come out next year."

"Its name right now is 'Dylan' - there's no other way to say it right now, it's Dylan, as in Bob Dylan. I believe that relates to the main character."

"Dylan is, from what I understand, a sci-fi themed game, it is sort of Destiny-style, takes some elements from The Division, it has like MMO elements. Someone described it as a 'semi-MMO'. I don't know much more than that... it is a huge scale project, perhaps the biggest BioWare has ever done. It's bigger than Mass Effect Andromeda, considerably so. It will have co-op."

"From what I understand... I'm not 100% sure on this part... all the rest I am 100% sure on. It's like, triple sourced, rock solid information. This is the part where it gets a little sketchy as I've only heard this from one artist who's working on it [...]," he continues, explaining that this artist allegedly said "that the main character is this sort of like gorgeous Adonis and there is a female character as well - I'm not sure if you can play as her - but she's more schlubby looking and those are the two main characters."

Take all this with a pinch of salt, though, as we don't know any solid details about this new IP yet. What do you make of what Robertson had said though? And do you believe it?

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