The growth of the RPG / MMO Group as part of Electronic Arts in 2008 + has resulted in three additional studios being added to the BioWare Group outside BioWare's original home base in Edmonton.

The Odyssey Engine is a computer game engine developed by BioWare and has exclusively been used to create three dimensional role-playing video games.

While the Bhaalspawn Saga was originally developed exclusively by BioWare for the Personal Computer, in 2012 Atari revealed that Beamdog and Overhaul Games would remake the games in HD.

BioWare specializes in role-playing video games, and became famous for launching highly praised and successful licensed franchises, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

MDK 2 was released on PC, Dreamcast, and eventually PlayStation 2, offering BioWare their first taste of developing games for consoles.

Electronic Arts announced on June 24, 2009, that they are restructuring their RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic Entertainment and BioWare.

In the aftermath of the controversy, Forbes contributor Erik Kain wrote that it " may end up being a healthy one for the industry, opening a new chapter in gamer / developer / publisher relations ", calling BioWare and EA's decision to act on the fans ' complaints a " remarkable " choice that made gamers realize " that they are entitled, and that it isn't a bad thing, to quality games ".

Black Isle focused on role-playing games and eventually included the games of a new developer called BioWare.

" The team would go on to release such critically acclaimed games as Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale and produce the critically acclaimed Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn in conjunction with BioWare.

BioWare describes Dragon Age: Origins as a " dark heroic fantasy set in a unique world ", and a spiritual successor to their Baldur's Gate series of games, which took place in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

Greg Zeschuk, vice president and co-founder of BioWare, remarked in an interview that there was a good possibility that free-to-play would become the dominant pricing plan for games, but that it was very unlikely that it would ever completely replace subscription-based games.

Computer games released by BioWare.

BioWare later acquired the rights to the title and developed a series of best-selling role-playing video games under the name Neverwinter Nights.

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BioWare has included female same-sex scenes in Mass Effect and allowed sexual interaction between any gender group in Dragon Age: Origins.

In 2011, BioWare launched their first MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

As of October 2011, the BioWare group consists of six studios: BioWare Edmonton, BioWare Austin, BioWare Mythic, BioWare Montreal, BioWare Ireland, and BioWare San Francisco ( formerly EA2D ).

; BioWare Victory ( 2011 )

Also includes BioWare Victory which was integrated into BioWare in December 2011.

* Star Wars: The Old Republic ( 2011 ) by BioWare

Canadian video game developer BioWare announced Dragon Age Legends in May 2010 and launched it in February 2011.

Another MMORPG titled Star Wars: The Old Republic was developed by BioWare, which released globally on December 20, 2011.

Buckling under the pressure of this heated demand, BioWare released a DLC ( downloadable content ) packet on June 26, 2012 in hopes of reconciling the game's endings and soothing the fandom's aggression.

On September 18, 2012, the next day after the official announcement of the third Dragon Age title, both Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, two of the remaining co-founders of BioWare, simultaneously announced they will be retiring from gaming industry.

Gaming fans have also recently made a big impact on content developers, namely BioWare Corp.

Gernsback's importance to science fiction was acknowledged by video game developer BioWare, who named a vessel after him in the game Mass Effect 2.

BioWare is a Canadian video game developer founded in February 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip.

BioWare is currently owned by American company Electronic Arts.

It comprises the RPG / MMO Group within Electronic Arts, with Muzyka, EA Senior VP and the Group General Manager and Zeschuk EA VP and Group Creative Officer of the BioWare Group ; co-founder Doctor Yip left in early 1997 to return to medicine.

BioWare was established in February 1995 by Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip, who had graduated together from medical school at the University of Alberta.

When Interplay financed " exploratory development ", BioWare presented the publishers with a demo called Battleground: Infinity.

At this point, BioWare decided to return to the action genre.

MDK 2 drew the same level of praise as its predecessor but, despite the success, BioWare returned to the Baldur's Gate series for their next project.

Following Interplay's bankruptcy, BioWare began to work with Infogrames, which was later renamed to Atari.

Neverwinter Nights was originally to be published by Interplay, but the company lost the license of the game to Atari and part of their Dungeons & Dragons license, to BioWare.

After selling their D & D license to Atari, BioWare developed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire.

In November 2005, it was announced that BioWare and Pandemic Studios ( itself founded by former Activision employees ) would be joining forces, with private equity fund Elevation Partners investing in the partnership.

BioWare therefore became a unit of EA, but retained its own branding.

In 2007, BioWare released the science fiction RPG Mass Effect.

The following year, BioWare released Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood on the Nintendo DS, its first title for a handheld game console.

Near the end of 2009, BioWare released the fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins, and in January 2010, Mass Effect 2.

Later, EA announced that BioWare would be merged with Mythic Entertainment, another division of EA, so that they could have all of their RPG development in one business unit.

The MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic is based on BioWare's previous contribution to the Star Wars franchise, and was announced on October 21, 2008, although BioWare had first mentioned an unspecified new collaboration with LucasArts in October the previous year.