Dragon Age 4

Dragon Age 4 is an upcoming role-playing video game in development by BioWare that is to be published by Electronic Arts. It is to be the fourth main game in the "Dragon Age" franchise.
Development.
The fourth main entry in the "Dragon Age" series is still under development as of January 2021. Development of this game, code-named "Joplin", began in 2015 with Mike Laidlaw as its Creative Director. It was originally intended to be a smaller, more narrative-focused game set in the Tevinter Imperium region of the game's world setting, Thedas.
Problems with the development of Bioware's other games "" and "Anthem" led to repeated interruptions as "Joplin" staff was shifted to these games. In October 2018, Bioware and its parent company EA cancelled "Joplin" altogether, reportedly because it had no room for a "live service" component to provide ongoing monetization opportunities. Several veteran "Dragon Age" staff, including Laidlaw, left the company in response. Mark Darrah remained as Executive Producer, while Matthew Goldman took over the position of Creative Director.
Development of "Dragon Age 4" was restarted under the code-name "Morrison", this time with a live-service component and based on "Anthem"s code. It was first announced at The Game Awards in December 2018; promotional material released by BioWare since then has revealed the presence of red lyrium (a mineral substance which powers the practice of magic at the cost of a corrupting influence) and major character Solas (now known by his true identity of the Dread Wolf) as significant elements of the game's plot. Two years later, a new teaser trailer was released during the 2020 edition of The Game Awards. It featured the dwarven character Varric Tethras as its narrator, as well as a brief appearance by Solas.
By December 3, 2020, Darrah had resigned from BioWare, with BioWare Austin studio head Christian Dailey announced as his replacement to lead the development of the project as Executive Producer. According to "Bloomberg News", after both the success of the single-player "" and the decision to cancel the reworking of the massively multiplayer online "Anthem" in February 2021 following its lackluster launch, EA and BioWare opted to remove the planned multiplayer components from "Dragon Age 4" and focus it as a single-player game only.