Source: A former employee's resume spotted by the online game-info crate-digger behind the Superannuation blog.
What we heard: BioWare is a busy company. Besides this fall's high fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins, the Edmonton, Alberta-headquarted developer is prepping the high sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect 2, which scored a GameSpot E3 2009 Editors' Choice Award. Another winner was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the massively multiplayer RPG from BioWare's Austin, Texas, studio. To help out, the company also recently opened a branch inside the Montreal campus of its corporate parent, Electronic Arts.
This week, information surfaced that the prestigious shop may be working on yet another all-new IP. During one of its semiregular sweeps of the Internet, Superannuation picked up on the resume of a developer who worked as the "Principle [sic] Lead Designer" of "an unannounced 'AAA' project" at BioWare.
The designer left just this past April--long after the existence of all BioWare's current games were made public--meaning the title is likely still under wraps. He described his work on the project thusly: "Responsibilities include[d] the creation of a new IP and managing a team of designers, writers and level designers." (Emphasis added.) The reference to "new IP" appears to indicate the "New Next Gen Game" on BioWare's official site may be an all-new property, and not a relaunch of a classic franchise like the Baldur's Gate reboot Atari announced last December.
The official story: Multiple requests for comment sent to BioWare had not been answered as of press time.
Bogus or not bogus?: Looking not bogus--and not terribly surprising. A company of BioWare's size, talent, and creative ambition almost certainly has at least one unannounced game in the works.
