Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. We've been digging back through the archives at PCG, and one particular hands-on experience and Q&A reached its icy hand out of the mists of time and grabbed me by the throat: Now-Strategic Director Evan Lahti's preview of Dragon Age: Origins, and an accompanying interview with BioWare cofounders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk in 2009. Neither of those men have been part of the beloved RPG studio for more than a decade: Zeschuk appears to be something of a restaurateur these days, while Muzyka is quite the poker player. Reading coverage of the studio only partway through its golden age bummed me the hell out. This interview was originally published in PC Gamer #198 (UK, March 2009). After a legendary hot streak beginning with the OG Mass Effect in 2007 (or, arguably, the OG Baldur's Gate in 1998), BioWare struggled to find its footing in the 2010s: Longtime staff left or were forced out, it released three disappointments in seven years vs. nearly a dozen bangers in the previous decade. A new Mass Effect is supposedly still coming, but by all accounts the studio is a fraction of its former size following Anthem, The Veilguard, and multiple rounds of layoffs. But nobody knew all that was coming down the pike in March 2009. Evan sat down for a hands-on of the Dwarf Noble origin sequence, a world's first look at a slice of RPG that many players could reenact from memory at this point. (Not me—I'm a City Elf man.)