In 2010, co-founders Ray Muzyka & Greg Zeschuk were inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame.

Dragon Age: Inquisition and the fourth Mass Effect game use Dice's Frostbite 3. The first three Mass Effect games used the Unreal 3 engine.

Their latest is the Eclipse Engine that powers the Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2. Enginesīioware along with developing games, has created several Engines, including the Infinity Engine, Aurora Engine, and the Odyssey Engine. BioWare Montreal worked on parts of Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, and are now making the fourth major Mass Effect game. 2, 2009 BioWare announced another new studio, this time in Montreal. The Old Republic has since adopted a free-to-play model and remains in continuous development. The game launched in December 2011 as an MMORPG with a payed subscription model. Less than three months later, they released the award winning Mass Effect 2.īioWare's first expansion separate from the Edmonton headquarters, BioWare Austin, was created 2006 to make Star Wars: The Old Republic. 2009, dubbed a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series. Their first multi-platform release with EA was Dragon Age: Origins in Nov. Ray Muzyka became a general manager and senior vice president at Electronic Arts after he and Zeschuk sold the company. Soon after releasing Mass Effect, Bioware and Pandemic were purchased by publishing giant Electronic Arts. In 2005 Bioware merged with fellow developer Pandemic Studios. It was followed in 2004 by Jade Empire and in 2007 by Mass Effect for the Xbox 360. This game was the first of several games that Bioware would develop for Microsoft's consoles. The company originally developed games exclusively for the PC platform, but In 2003 the company released Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic for the Xbox in collaboration with LucasArts. Yip left the company in 1997 to return to medicine, but Zeschuk and Muzyka remained and still acted as heads of the studio untill they left the company in 2012.īioware is famous for such Dungeon and Dragons inspired games as Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. Zeschuk has recently finished his MBA at Queen's School of Business. Zeschuk and Muzyka previously completed medical degrees at the University of Alberta. It was founded in February 1995 by Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. Greg Zeschukīioware is one of the most acclaimed RPG developers in the western world. The developer has received multiple awards including Spike TV's 2010 Video Game Awards: Studio of the Year.

There are currently three studios using the BioWare name: BioWare Edmonton, BioWare Montreal, and BioWare Austin. It is most famous for its highly praised role-playing games including Baldur's Gate and the Mass Effect series. BioWare is a Canadian development studio owned by Electronic Arts.

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