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GDC08: Audio of BioWare founders talking EA, Mass Effect PC

Filed under: Features, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs, Interviews, GDC, MMOJust after lunch we had the chance to sit in on a demo of the PC version of Mass Effect. It was a great opportunity to check out...

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BioWare founders: 'We're not done yet'

Filed under: Features, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs, Interviews, GDCRight after our demo of the PC version of Mass Effect, we had the chance to sit with BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk for...

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Bioware devs debate whether Wii is part of gaming

Filed under: Culture, Nintendo Wii CEO Ray Muzyka and President Greg Zeschuk of Bioware, a company founded on narrative-centric RPGs, can't seem to decide if the Wii is a game (as opposed to, from what...

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E308: Dragon Age Origins will see life on consoles

Filed under: News, E3 In case you missed it during our Live Blog of the Electronic Arts press conference, there's some new information from the guys at BioWare. BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk...

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BioWare 'talking about' more Mass Effect DLC

Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk was talking to MTV Multiplayer about the company's upcoming Dragon Age, when he took a left turn at Alpha Centauri and...

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Industry vets sound off on sex, violence, ratings and design

Filed under: Interviews, Fable 2, Gears of War 2 Peter Molyneux, Greg Zeschuk, Cliff Bleszinski and David Jaffe are four of the industries most respected, creative developers working today and also...

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Rumorang: More Mass Effect DLC on the way

You remember, eight freaking months ago, when we reported on BioWare talking about" more DLC for Mass Effect? Well, while you were vicariously experiencing the New York Comic Con through our virtual...

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Mass Effect 2 won't 'shy away from emotionally engaging moments'

In response to the dumb, dumb controversy surrounding the original Mass Effect's thoroughly non-erotic, two-minute-long sex scene, Bioware co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk recently addressed...

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BioWare's Muzyka, Zeschuk keynoting GDC Canada 2009

With jetlag only just starting to subside from attending the recent Game Developers Conference, plans are already in place for the annual gathering's sister event in Canada. Taking place next month,...

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BioWare talks EA acquisition, Dragon Age perception

With a sequel, an original IP and now an MMO in the pipeline, it's a wonder that anyone at BioWare gets any sleep these days, least of all company head honchos Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk. Still, if...

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A game without violence? BioWare thinks it's possible with the right audience

Skimming through the Interweb this morning, we stumbled upon statements made by BioWare's Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, spelling out their interest in creating games more reliant on story than combat....

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BioWare 'caught up' and 'pumped' on PS3 development

BioWare's Greg Zeschuk (and the team behind Dragon Age: Origins) is totally psyched to be developing on the PlayStation 3. Speaking to VideoGamer.com recently, Zeschuk expounded the team's excitement...

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PlayStation UK Blog brings BioWare doctors in for Dragon Age live chat

BioWare fans should start polishing up their Dragon Age: Origins related questions, because the good Canadian doctors from the famed studio will be on hand for a live chat with fans this Friday,...

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Interview: BioWare's Greg Zeschuk on Dragon Age, DLC, and more

Here's a Thanksgiving treat from the vault - we've dug out the following interview with BioWare co-founder (and Group Creative Officer of EA's newly formed RPG/MMO Group) Greg Zeschuk from earlier...

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BioWare's Ray Muzyka on how to make single-player gaming more social

The good folks at IncGamers had a chat with one of BioWare's founding medical doctors, Ray Muzyka, about the company's history of classic single-player gaming and its upcoming foray into the world of...

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BioWare: Mass Effect Trilogy will not spell end of franchise

If you're pessimists like us, you've been looking at Mass Effect 2 not as an exciting new chapter in the trilogy but simply as "the one before the last one." But, speaking with Kotaku, BioWare...

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Mass Effect 2 DLC not only available through Cerberus Network

The announcement of Mass Effect 2's in-game DLC pipeline, "Cerberus Network," left some details unclear. For example, will DLC through Cerberus be free, since the network itself costs money to install...

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Video Interview: BioWare's Dr. Greg Zeschuk on Mass Effect 2 & 3

"You may not even see the impact of a decision in Mass Effect 1 in Mass Effect 2, but in Mass Effect 3," BioWare's Dr. Greg Zeschuk told us while elaborating about the whole Mass Effect franchise. The...

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BioWare says Dragon Age 2 to look 'super hot'

Dragon Age: Origins presents strong evidence that great games can overcome gawd-awful graphics, but BioWare isn't about to test that theory -- and the limits of our forgiveness -- again in the sequel....

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Interview: BioWare's Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka

"Are you saying BioWare fast turnaround?" company co-founder Greg Zeschuk asks jokingly. The respected RPG developer has been known for taking its time with producing hits like Neverwinter Nights and...

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BioWare bosses see potential, challenges in Move and Natal

Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Speaking to IndustryGamers, BioWare head honchos Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka shared some thoughts on the current state of motion controls and...

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Develop: How is digital distribution changing the games you play?

Now that services like Xbox Live, PSN, Steam and the iPhone App Store have proven digital distribution as a market force to be reckoned with, it's time to start examining what this change means to...

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BioWare Docs talk Dragon Age, Mass Effect, The Old Republic plans

BioWare co-founders Dr. Greg Zeschuk and Dr. Ray Muzyka have their fingers in a lot of pies (which are made of giant RPGs) -- in a recent interview with Eurogamer, the duo explained how the...

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From the VGAs Red Carpet: Bioware's Doctors

At the red carpet event right before the VGAs this weekend, all we could get out of Bioware's two founding doctors, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, about their reveal was that "it involves shooting."...

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BioWare doctors add 'AIAS Hall of Fame' to credentials

BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk will be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame. Muzyka and Zeschuk will be the fourteenth and fifteenth...

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AIAS Hall of Famers delivering 2011 D.I.C.E. Summit keynote

So, you've only got a few hours set aside this year with which to absorb illumination from some of the gaming industry's smartest folks? You won't find a more efficient way to satisfy your needs than...

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AIAS Hall of Fame 'Game Changers' confess pro mistakes

Kicking off DICE 2011, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences invited Hall of Fame "game changers" to speak on a variety of topics, moderated by New York Times writer Seth Schiesel. Things got...

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What's in a Name: BioWare

It's time for the BioWare: Origins name story. At DICE 2011, we had the opportunity to ask Drs. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk how their studio got its name: Dr. Ray Muzyka: "The three founders, Greg,...

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BioWare 'figuring out the right way' to continue Mass Effect after ME3

Speaking with business giant Forbes, BioWare founders/doctors Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka spoke on the possibility of life after Mass Effect 3, saying that ME3's universe of diverse alien races and...

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'Irrational Interviews' pairs Ken Levine with the BioWare docs on latest episode

When we tipped you in the past about Irrational Games' ongoing series of podcasts, dubbed "Irrational Interviews," we may not have been emphatic enough about becoming an ongoing listener. To date, not...

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'BioWare Ireland' opens as 400-person customer service center ... in Ireland

Following up its tax incentive-fueled studio opening in Austin, Texas, EA this morning revealed the opening of a new customer service center in business friendly Galway, Ireland. When fully staffed,...

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BioWare docs explain how to stay true to your roots while expanding massively

With eight (eight!) studios around the globe as of the end of 2011, BioWare label heads Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk have kind of a lot going on at any given time. When I spoke with them...

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BioWare docs defend subscription model, tease free-to-play iteration of...

Understandably, BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk seem tired of beating the drum for Star Wars: The Old Republic's subscription-based business model. I didn't actually bother asking them about...

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BioWare Ireland is a 'kind of sister studio' to BioWare Austin, offering...

BioWare's Austin studio had some assistance in developing Star Wars: The Old Republic, which co-founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka have described in the past as a collaboration between BioWare...

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Zeschuk: Coordinating on SWTOR 'like teaching elephants to do ballet'

The LA Times has put together a rather lengthy retrospective on the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Among the bullet points that we've seen before -- SWTOR has a lot of voice acting, it's...

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