On June 24, 2009, EA announced it will merge two of its development studios, BioWare and Mythic into one single role-playing video game and MMO development powerhouse.

The Aurora toolset ( sometimes called the Aurora toolkit ) is a set of software tools developed by BioWare for use with the Aurora Engine, the game engine first used in BioWare's 2002 role-playing video game Neverwinter Nights.

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

NWScript is the scripting language developed by BioWare for the role-playing video game Neverwinter Nights.

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast is a role-playing video game in a high fantasy setting, developed by BioWare and published by Interplay in April 1999.

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is a computer role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Black Isle Studios.

Baldur's Gate had been the first role-playing game that BioWare had made ; and what they learned in making it was applied to Baldur's Gate II.

BioWare Mythic ( formerly Mythic Entertainment, EA Mythic, Inc. and Interworld Productions ) is a video game developer in Fairfax, Virginia which is most widely recognized for developing the 2001 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot.

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

This is the front cover art of Windows version of Neverwinter Nights, a role-playing video game developed by BioWare.

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

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.

* Mass Effect, a video game developed by BioWare

Ser is a gender-neutral form of Sir that has been used in the Dragon Age video game series by BioWare, in the video game Dragon's Dogma by Capcom, George R. R.

GameDaily's Chris Buffa listed the moment as the fourth top video game spoiler, and Robert Workman listed the moment as one of the eight BioWare moments that shocked him.

In the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic by Canadian developer BioWare the player visits the planet Manaan, the capital of the planet is called Ahto City.

* Dragon Age: Origins, a video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts

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

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.

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

BioWare completed three major games between 2011 and 2012.

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 ".

" 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.

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

In 2009 Mythic Entertainment, based in Fairfax, Virginia, became part of the RPG / MMO Group, later being renamed BioWare Mythic in early 2010.

* Witch Hunt, a premium expandable content designed for Dragon Age: Origins by BioWare

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.

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

The game used the Infinity Engine, a game engine initially developed by BioWare for Baldur's Gate.

Initially BioWare was contracted for Shattered Steel for Interplay.

It was originally developed by BioWare for a prototype RTS game codenamed Battleground Infinity, which was ultimately re-engineered to become the first installment of the Baldur's Gate series.

BioWare intends for Dragon Age: Origins to serve as the foundation for a much broader intellectual property.

The most successful subsequent Interplay franchise was probably Baldur's Gate, a Dungeons & Dragons game that was developed by BioWare, and which spawned a successful expansion, sequel and spin-off series.

BioWare used it again in the subsequent installments of the series, but also licensed the engine to Interplay's Black Isle Studios.

* Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal-Developed by BioWare

* Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn-Developed by BioWare

* Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast at BioWare website

Baldur's Gate II was developed by BioWare and published by Black Isle Studios.