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1. BioWare staff keep talking about it, all the time:
February 19 2016 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah uses a Twitter poll to ask if people would play a DA tactics game.
April 26 2016 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah tweets a video of an internal-use-only book that features the Dragon Age font.
September 13 2016 – Executive Produce Mark Darrah tweets some photos of the contents of the book, including images of some characters from Dragon Age: Inquisition, that he says are 'only 66% troll'.
January 26 2017 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah tweets more from inside the book: the elven player characters from Inquisition, what looks like concept art and a deliberately unfocused photo of an unknown figure. He also tweets a sculpture of Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf, 'for… reasons'.
May 22 2017 – Alexis Kennedy confirms in an interview with Eurogamer that he was hired to work on 'a storyline bit of lore' for a game in the Dragon Age franchise.
May 22 2017 – Alexis Kennedy confirms on Twitter that he didn't explicitly say it was Dragon Age 4, and could be 'a spinoff or late DLC or a dragon breeding program…' and we all totally believe him for sure.
ware EA ninjas! all I've said is that it's something in the DA franchise. It could be a spinoff or late DLC or a dragon breeding program… https://t.co/rxukec9xmP
— Alexis Kennedy ï¸ (@alexiskennedy) May 22, 2017
June 1 2017 – voice of the Inquisitor Alix Wilton Regan posts a video of herself hanging out with Dragon Age lead writer Patrick Weekes (whilst sassing Freddie Prinze Jr., the voice of The Iron Bull).
June 28 2017 – former Creative Director Mike Laidlaw says 'it's no secret we're doing something with Dragon Age' on The 1099 podcast, and, like, obviously.
June 29 2017 – contrary to what Executive Producer Mark Darrah said in February 2016, Executive Producer Mark Darrah tweets a list of things he is NOT currently working on, including 'A DA Tactics game'. BioWare, pls.
July 14 2017 – writer Mary Kirby objects that 'the next one' is not an option in a Twitter poll for favourite Dragon Age games.
July 16 2017 – Dragon Age lead writer Patrick Weekes mentions casting voice actors (without specifically mentioning a game but he's not Dragon Age lead writer because he works at your local radio station and is casting for the voice ad for a discount carpet warehouse).
August 7 2017 – former Creative Director Mike Laidlaw says there is no planned end for the Dragon Age story, and that they work about two games ahead with ideas.
August 12 2017 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah says that it's 'unlikely' the Advanced Tactics will be in Dragon Age 4, if indeed DA4 were a thing.
September 7 2017 – former Creative Director Mike Laidlaw says there's a Dragon Age project happening but it's not been confirmed as the fourth mainline game.
There is a "Dragon Age" project happening. It is not confirmed as the fourth main game in the series. Many sites have run with the rumor. https://t.co/IVt67dFmYJ
— Mike Laidlaw (@Mike_Laidlaw) September 7, 2017
October 12 2017 – upon former Creative Director Mike Laidlaw leaving BioWare, still current Executive Producer Mark Darrah says he's 'excited for [Laidlaw] to see what the next Dragon Age will be.'
January 24 2018 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah confirms people are hard at work on both Anthem and Dragon Age.
January 25 2018 – BioWare's General Manager Casey Hudson confirms the new Dragon Age will be 'story and character focused.'
April 18 2018 – Dragon Age lead writer Patrick Weekes expresses surprise that nobody in his AMA asked him about the Dread Wolf's backstory, motivations or, crucially, long-term plan, because he would have been honor-bound to answer.
April 20 2018 – contrary to what Mike Laidlaw said in September last year, Executive Producer Mark Darrah refers to 'DA4' on Twitter and confirms once again he's EP on Anthem and DA.
April 20 2018 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah says he's 'getting excited' about EAPlay and E3.
This list is by no means exhaustive.
2. See reason 1
