Obviously, the biggest news from BioWare today is the revelations from E3 concerning Dragon Age. But before we get to that, let’s quickly go over other BioWare-related news from the last week.

Video Game Sophistry held an interview with former BioWare writer Drew Karpyshyn. A lot of the discussion covers Karpyshyn’s current work, but his career at BioWare does come up for a while.

For those of you who used it on iOS to boost your readiness score, here’s some bad news: BioWare retired the Mass Effect: Datapad app last week.

Oh, and the Asia-Pacific servers for Star Wars: The Old Republic are in fact being shutdown; official warning emails have gone out.

So, it was teased that something new from Dragon Age would be featured at E3 today, and that certainly proved to be the case; we got a look at the first trailer for Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Frostbite 3-powered finale (I assume) to the Dragon Age saga.

Some specifics we can take away from it are that the game will be open world (sort of…probably more akin to Reckoning than Skyrim; see the link Infinitron provided in the comments), will feature Varric, Morrigan and (likely) other characters from previous entries in the series, and will evidently be set against a backdrop of widespread war. Choice and consequence are likely to be big in the game, and it looks like my private hope that BioWare would take advantage of Frostbite 3’s destructible environments to create some epic castle sieges has come true.

Because yes, those scenes were captured in-engine:

Did you notice that was in-engine footage? Not CG, that’s some in-engine Morrigan right there. Glorious. #DragonAgeInquisition

— Mike Laidlaw (@Mike_Laidlaw) June 10, 2013

Granted, “in-engine” doesn’t necessarily mean “gameplay”. Still…