The director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard left EA and BioWare at the beginning of 2025. Now she has a new project at Wizards of the Coast. But for that, another game had to die.
Who is the woman behind Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Corinne Busche was the Creative Director behind Dragon Age: The Veilguard starting in 2022. Before that, she worked for 18 years as a designer on various EA games, including The Sims 3 and The Sims 4.
In January 2025, however, Busche left BioWare. This was confirmed by Jeff Grubb, a renowned journalist. We reported on her departure: The woman behind Dragon Age: The Veilguard leaves BioWare, and some opinion leaders rejoice
In an interview with Game File, Dan Ayoub, the SVP of the Dungeons & Dragons company Wizards of the Coast, indicated that Corinne Busche is now the Creative Lead for a new project at one of their in-house studios. However, another game was canceled for this.
After 3 years, the new game by the Anthem developers died
What kind of game had to die? Unfortunately, very little was known about the game that Wizards of the Coast has now canceled. Here’s what we know:
- The studio behind it was Skeleton Key from Austin, Texas, USA, which belongs to Wizards of the Coast.
- The game was supposed to have a high budget.
- A specific genre was not known, but horror was suspected.
Skeleton Key, a studio of former Anthem developers, had been working on the title since its founding in 2022. In February 2025, it was now canceled and some developers were laid off. You can read more about it in our news on the cancellation: They made a fortune with Baldur’s Gate 3 but removed the new AAA game from the team behind Anthem 2.0
What is Corinne Busche working on now? The former Creative Director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now employed in the same role at Skeleton Key. However, she is not working on the originally developed horror game, but on another project.
This game was already in development in parallel with the now-canceled one, according to the SVP of Wizards of the Coast. They had realigned the team
to work on just one title. Most developers did not lose their jobs but are now working under Busche on the new game – this is what Dan Ayoub said in a conversation with The Game File (Paywall)
So far, Skeleton Key has not released any game. With the development of the new game seemingly having just recently started, it will accordingly likely take a while before there are first official information or even images of it.
Since it will be a game from Wizards of the Coast, it could be a game for one of the company’s own licenses. This includes, among others, the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, as well as the pen & paper Dungeons and Dragons. If you want to really annoy your friends in your next D&D session, we might have just the right spell for you: An inconspicuous spell in Dungeons & Dragons is so powerful that it even threatens friendships
