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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1 February 1995 |
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| Headquarters | , Canada |
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| Products | List of BioWare video games |
Number of employees | 320[2] (2019) |
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| Subsidiaries | See § Subsidiaries |
| Website | bioware.com |
BioWare is a Canadian video game developer based in Edmonton, Alberta. It was founded in 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Augustine Yip. Since 2007, the company has been owned by American publisher Electronic Arts.
BioWare specializes in role-playing video games, and achieved recognition for developing highly praised and successful licensed franchises: Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. They proceeded to make several other successful games based on original intellectual property: Jade Empire, the Mass Effect series, and the Dragon Age series. In 2011, BioWare launched their first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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