Dragon Age: The Veilguard
2024 video game
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| 2025 | User Experience nomination status pending at the Webby Awards |
| 2025 | Won Outstanding Video Game at the 36th GLAAD Media Awards |
| 2025 | Received Honoree status for Best Music/Sound Design at the Webby Awards |
| 2025 | Technical Achievement nomination status pending at the Webby Awards |
| 2025 | Longlisted for Animation at the 21st British Academy Games Awards |
| 2025 | Nominated for 28th Annual DICE Awards' Role-Playing Game of the Year |
| 2025 | Received Honorable Mention for Social Impact at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards |
| 2025 | Received Honorable Mention for Best Technology at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards |
| 2025 | Longlisted for Music at the 21st British Academy Games Awards |
| 2025 | Longlisted for Narrative at the 21st British Academy Games Awards |
| 2025 | Pending nomination for Outstanding Video Game at the GLAAD Media Awards |
| January 29 2025 | BioWare announced a company restructure following Veilguard's development, with staff being moved to the Mass Effect 5 project or other EA studios. Some team members, including Trick Weekes, were terminated. |
| January 2025 | Active development of the game ends, with future updates limited to fixing critical bugs. No additional DLC or post-launch content is planned. |
| January 2025 | Active development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard was ended, with future updates limited to fixing game-breaking bugs. |
| January 2025 | EA publicly discussed Veilguard's performance, with CEO Andrew Wilson acknowledging it as a high-quality launch while suggesting the need for single-player games to expand beyond their core audience through shared-world features. |
| 2024 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard broke BioWare's record for most concurrent players on Steam, reaching over 85,000 players during the opening weekend. |
| 2024 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard was nominated for Titanium Awards' Best Narrative Design |
| 2024 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard was nominated for The Game Awards' Innovation in Accessibility category |
| 2024 | Game nominated for The Game Awards' Innovation in Accessibility category |
| 2024 | Game received a nomination for Titanium Awards' Best Narrative Design |
| 2024 | Ranked 4th on the Associated Press year-end list. |
| 2024 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard was nominated for Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. |
| 2024 | Appeared on Time magazine's year-end list, ranking 1st. |
| 2024 | Named Best RPG of 2024 by GamesRadar+. |
| 2024 | Ranked 3rd on GamesRadar+ year-end list. |
| 2024 | The game was nominated for Best Narrative and Best RPG at the Equinox Latam Game Awards. |
| 2024 | Received 10 nominations at the 5th Canadian Game Awards, including Game of the Year. |
| 2024 | The game received nominations at The Game Awards, Golden Joystick Awards, and DICE Awards, and was featured in several publications' year-end lists. |
| December 31 2024 | By the end of December, the game had 'engaged' 1.5 million players, which EA considered underperforming compared to their expectations. |
| October 31 2024 | BioWare released a free standalone version of the game's character creator for Dragon Age Day, allowing players to transfer their character iterations to the full game. |
| October 31 2024 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. |
| October 17 2024 | Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance podcast completed its eight-episode run. |
| August 29 2024 | Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance, a tie-in fantasy podcast featuring companion backstories, began weekly release. |
| June 2024 | Game is retitled to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. |
| June 2024 | The game was retitled from Dragon Age: Dreadwolf to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. |
| 2023 | Corinne Busche exited BioWare at the conclusion of the game's development to take a role at a different company. |
| December 2023 | A teaser trailer was released showcasing new locations: Antiva, Rivain, and the Anderfels. |
| October 2023 | Seven laid-off employees sued BioWare over non-disclosure agreements preventing them from adding Veilguard work to their portfolios. |
| August 2023 | BioWare laid off 50 people working on Veilguard, including key writer Mary Kirby. |
| March 2023 | Mark Darrah returns as a consultant, and the Mass Effect team joins the production of Veilguard. |
| February 2023 | Alpha-stage footage leaked, revealing the game would use real-time action combat gameplay influenced by God of War. |
| January 2023 | Mac Walters left BioWare. |
| January 25 2023 | Dragon Age: The Missing, a four-issue limited series comic prequel, began publication, focusing on Varric Tethras and Lace Harding's investigation into Solas. |
| June 2022 | The game's title was announced as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. |
| February 2022 | Christian Dailey left BioWare. Corinne Busche became game director, Benoit Houle became director of product development, and Mac Walters became production director. |
| November 2021 | Matthew Goldman left BioWare, and John Epler replaced him as Creative Director. |
| February 2021 | Following the success of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Anthem's cancellation, EA and BioWare decided to remove multiplayer components and develop the game as a single-player title. |
| December 2020 | A teaser trailer was released featuring narrator Varric Tethras and Solas. |
| December 3 2020 | Mark Darrah resigned from BioWare, replaced by Christian Dailey as executive producer. |
| August 2020 | A concept art video for the game was released at Gamescom. |
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