3. History BioWare was established on February 1995 by Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip who were graduates from medical school. From their success in medical school, they had enough money to open a company. They put in $100, 000 for their first game: Shattered Steel. This was described as a “model success” by IGN. After their success, they decided on their next game to be a RPG, which ended up being Baldur’s Gate. This game was made only on the PC and was programmed through the infinity engine. After the release, Augustine Yip left to work in his medical career while the company soon after released and expansion back: Tales of the Sword Coast. Through this point, BioWare decided to return to the action genre for they thought of making a sequel to Shattered Steel. But instead, made MDK 2 at the request of Shiny Entertainment while delivering their project to consoles this time around.

4. History Continues… In 2000, they released Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn was released. Though this and the previous game were not enough to stabilize their place and so they continued with various failures that eventually led to bankruptcy. Soon BioWare began to work with Atari but later released Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire. After a few years, BioWare joined in partnership with Pandemic Studios. But after a couple more years, these companies were bought by EA. Though BioWare continued its rein of games and released some major hits such as; Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Dragon Age: Origins. Later on, BioWare released 3 major titles: MMORPG Star Wars The Old Republic, Mass Effect 3, and Dragon Age II. After a while, the growth of the MMORPG group had increased, thus to solve this problem, there were 3 additional studios created that were all settled at different areas; Austin, Taxis, Montreal, Quebec, and Fairfax, Virginia. In this present year, as Dragon Age III was announced, the 2 remaining co-founders of BioWare retire from the gaming industry.

5. Video Games Shattered steel - 1996 Baldur’s Gate - 1998 Baldur’s Gate: TOTSC - 1999 MDK2 - 2000 Baldur’s Gate II: SOA - 2000 Baldur’s Gate II: TOB - 2001 Neverwinter Night - 2002 Neverwinter Nights SOU - 2003 Neverwinter Nights HOTU - 2003 Star Wars: KOTOP - 2003 Jade Empire - 2005 Mass Effect - 2007 Sonic Generation: TDB - 2008 Mass Effect Galaxy - 2009 Dragon Age: Origins - 2009 Mass Effect 2 - 2010 Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening - 2010 Dragon Age II - 2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic - 2011 Mass Effect 3 - 2012 Dragon Age III: Inquisition - 2013

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7. Financial Information

8. Statistics Employee Count: 800 Number of Games Produces: 21 Products: Video Games Co-Founders: Ray Muzyka Greg Zeschuk Augustine Yip Owner(s): Electronic Arts(EA) Headquarters: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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