Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director leaving BioWareAfter 18-year career at EA.Image credit: BioWare News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on Jan. 17, 2025 Corinne Busche, who served as game director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard since February 2022, is departing BioWare. Whispers of her exit began circulating online last night, and were first confirmed by journalist Jeff Grubb. Eurogamer can also confirm Busche will depart BioWare in the coming weeks.Eurogamer understands BioWare itself is otherwise unaffected by any other changes, contrary to rumour.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Dragon Age: The Veilguard -seven details you need to know.Watch on YouTubeBusche, working closely alongside creative director John Epler, helped oversee The Veilguard's final stretch of development from early 2022 onwards, until its final release last October. The Veilguard slogged through a mammoth decade-long development and several reboots before the version we finally saw launch arrived, steered by Busche.Critically, The Veilguard has been received well, and commercially sales have been decent - but there's also been a suggestion that sales have not exceeded expectations. Still, Eurogamer understands The Veilguard's commercial performance was not a direct factor in Busche's departure. Alongside her work on The Veilguard, Busche has served as a designer and design director within publisher EA for 18 years, working on numerous entries in The Sims series, including The Sims 3, The Sims 4 and The Sims Mobile.Post Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the bulk of BioWare is now turning its attention fully to the next Mass Effect game, which is being led by a separate small team of veterans.Eurogamer spoke with both Busche and Epler in December for our big Dragon Age: The Veilguard post-release interview. "The reality was whatever we came out with, it was never going to match the Dragon Age 4 in people's minds and people's imaginations," Epler said.