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Baldur's Gate brand owner confirmed news of hiring Dragon Age: The Veilguard director

The director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, who left BioWare in January, has officially found a job. She is currently working at Skeleton Key, owned by the owners of the Baldur's Gate brand.

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Baldur's Gate brand owner confirmed news of hiring Dragon Age: The Veilguard director, image source: BioWare.
Baldur's Gate brand owner confirmed news of hiring Dragon Age: The Veilguard director Source: BioWare.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard in the final stage of game development, taking on the position of director. Furthermore, she was associated with Electronic Arts for 18 years. She then mentioned that she had been given an opportunity she couldn't turn down, and now we've discovered a bit more about it.

In a new interview for Game File (via GamesRadar+), Senior Vice CEO of Wizards of the Coast, Dan Ayoub, revealed that Busche is the creative leader of the project being developed in the subsidiary studio Skeleton Key, thereby partially confirming reports from February. The developer herself hasn't yet commented on her new role.

Skeleton Key is a new team, founded in 2022, which hasn't yet released any game. The studio was simultaneously working on two games until Wizards of the Coast canceled one, resulting in some employees being laid off to concentrate on the second title.

Unfortunately, we don't know what game is being developed under the leadership of Busche. It's possible that it could be connected to the and its future was recently a topic of discussion. However, it could also be a completely different title based on the D&D system. Busche, confirming her departure from BioWare, said that her next project will be related to CRPGs.

Dan Ayoub also clearly states that the company "wants to build story-based worlds for single players with characters." Taking this into , we can safely assume that the new Skeleton Key game will belong to the RPG genre.

  1. Skeleton Key - official website

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Martin Bukowski

Author: Martin Bukowski

Graduate of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Gdańsk University of Technology, who decided to dedicate his life to video games. In his childhood, he would get lost in the Gothic's Valley of Mines and "grind for gold" in League of Legends. Twenty years later, games still entertain him just as much. Today, he considers the Persona series and soulslike titles from From Software as his favorite games. He avoids consoles, and a special place in his heart is reserved for PC. In his spare time, he works as a translator, is creating his first game, or spends time watching movies and series (mainly animated ones).