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Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare has turned 20 today, but it doesn't look a day older than 19.Founded by medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip in Edmonton, Canada, the studio went on to create such well known RPGs as Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Jade Empire before settling into its currently running series such as Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and the Star Wars MMO spin-off The Old Republic.
Its first game, however, was the mech sim Shattered Steel in 1996. BioWare deviated drastically from its RPG foundation again in 2000 when it made MDK2, the sequel to Shiny Entertainment's third-person shooter. A then 16-year-old Tom Bramwell once said, "there ain't much better in the genre" of BioWare's sequel.
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