BioWare already planning Dragon Age: Origins follow-up

BioWare is already planning a follow up to Dragon Age: Origins, and has promised fans it’ll be out “sooner rather than later”.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com in an interview to be published tomorrow, lead designer Brent Knowles revealed that BioWare is already planning where the Dragon Age IP is going to go and said there are still “lots of exciting places and events for players to experience”.

Dragon Age: Origins, described by Mass Effect developer BioWare as the spiritual successor to its cult RPG Baldur’s Gate, is scheduled for release on PC early 2009, with a console version to follow after.

When asked if Dragon Age was a franchise BioWare intends to return to in the future, Knowles replied: “We’re already planning the future, what the team’s going to do, where the IP’s going to go. We’ve spent years developing the world. There’s many more countries in the world than the one you’re visiting in the first game, there’s thousands of years of history, there are a lot of exciting places and events for players to experience, so we’re definitely hoping to see the Dragon Age IP have a really bright life after the initial release.”

While Knowles couldn’t suggest when fans will see the next Dragon Age game, he did say it’ll be out before “people haven’t forgotten” about the franchise.

“I think we wouldn’t be looking at a long drought,” he said. “We want to keep players engaged in it. Post release content will be coming out fairly regularly for people to download. And then we’d obviously want to have some other product out in a reasonable time frame so people haven’t forgotten about Dragon Age by the time it comes out. So it’d be smart of us to have stuff come out sooner rather than later.”

You can check out our first-look preview of the hotly anticipated RPG right here. Be sure to check the site tomorrow for the full interview with BioWare’s Brent Knowles.