Dragon Age: Dreadwolf appears for pre-download on Xbox app

The
long
awaited
Dragon
Age:
Dreadwolf
has
randomly
popped
up
on
the
official
Xbox
app
for
pre-download.

It
was
first
spotted
by
a
user
Mr
Evil
37
on
ResetEra
who
commented:
“By
the
way,
you
can
predownload
Dreadwolf
on
Xbox
using
the
phone
app.
It’s
obviously
just
a
placeholder
file,
but
still
cool.”

Another
user
then
verified
this
later
in
the
thread.

Shinobi602,
a
well-known
and
very
reliable
source
of
insider
information,
also
comment
in
the
same
thread,
seemingly
teasing
something.
He
simply
posted
the
old
GIF
of
Mel
Gibson
in
the
movie
Braveheart
telling
his
warriors
to
“HOOOOOOLD!”

Wanting
some
further
proof
I
ventured
onto
the
Xbox
app
and
sure
enough,
Dreadwolf
can
by
found
by
searching
for
it
and
is
available
to
pre-download
right
now.
The
screenshots
below
were
taken
on
my
phone.

It
has
also
appeared
on
the
official
Xbox
website
with
the
same
placeholder
image.

This
has
obviously
sparked
a
discussion
as
to
whether
Dragon
Age:
Dreadwolf
may
releasing
quite
soon,
perhaps
by
the
end
of
the
year.
The
page
going
up
on
the
Xbox
website
certainly
towards
it
becoming
available
for
pre-order
soon,
at
the
very
least.

The
game’s
last
trailer
was
released
5
months
and
told
players
that
a
full
reveal
would
be
coming
in
Summer
2024,
which
will
be
just
in
time
for
Summer
Game
Fest.

Dragon
Age:
Dreadwolf’s
development
has
been
a
tad
rough
over
the
years.
It
was
reported
to
have
entered
into
production
in
2015,

but
problems
began
when
staff
kept
being
moved
away
to
focus
on
Mass
Effect:
Andromeda
which
BioWare
was
also
developing
at
the
time.
At
one
point,
it
was
put
on
hold
entirely,
and
then
was
cancelled
in
2017,
apparently
because
EA
thought
it
had
no
room
for
a
live-service
component.
It
got
fired
back
up
again
in
2018
with
live-service
elements.

Those
live
service
pieces
were
again
removed,
partially
due
the
success
of
Star
Wars
Jedi:
Fall
Order
and
the
failure
of
Anthem.

None
of
these
things
mean
the
final
product
will
be
bad,
but
it
certainly
doesn’t
paint
a
great
picture.
BioWare
are
under
a
lot
of
pressure.
The
once
great
studio
has
struggled
in
recent
years,
putting
out
Anthem
in
2019
which
failed
to
meet
EA’s
expectations.
A
reworking
of
the
game
was
planned
but
dropped
entirely
because
of
low
player
counts.
Before
that,
2017’s
Mass
Effect:
Andromeda
actually
did
okay
in
sales
and
seemed
to
meet
EA’s
expectations
of
it,
but
overall
fan
and
critical
reception
was
quite
poor.