Report: Next Dragon Age Delayed Out of 2022

The eagerly anticipated 4th instalment in Edmonton-based BioWare’s beloved fantasy RPG series Dragon Age is most likely not hitting their 2022 target release.

According to credible game news leaker Tom Henderson and corroborated by industry insider Jeff Grub (though the original link reported in Eurogamer is now dead), there’s “no chance” the game hits its 2022 target.

Image from BioWare.

Dragon Age’s next instalment has had a fraught development so far with major gaps in news and huge studio lead departures.

Originally announced at The Game Awards in 2018, we didn’t see anything else about it until the announcement that longtime series developer and director on the next title Mark Darrah would be leaving BioWare and the project (as well as long-time BioWare dev and lead on the also beleaguered next Mass Effect instalment Casey Hudson). We would see a couple more minutes of Dragon Age marketing at The Game Awards in 2020 and it was still only conceptual- no actual gameplay.

Needlessly to say the development hasn’t appeared to go swimmingly, and this reported delay fits the trajectory of the game’s reported development.

EA CFO Blake Jorgensen had previously said that the next Dragon Age won’t be out before April 2022 at the earliest, but will probably release within EA’s 2022 fiscal year- this was clearly wishful thinking.