Whois & Analysis for bioware.com

BioWare is a video game developer located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

It was founded in February 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip, and is currently owned by American company Electronic Arts.

The company specializes in role-playing video games, and achieved recognition for launching highly praised and successful licensed franchises: Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and .

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, .

A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as role-playing game or RPG, and in the past also known as computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world.

Many role-playing video games have origins in tabletop role-playing games (Including Dungeons & Dragons) and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics.

Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include developed story-telling and narrative elements, player character development, complexity, as well as replayability and immersion.

The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed.

RPGs have evolved from simple text-based console-window games into visually rich 3D experiences.

A player character or playable character (PC) is a fictional character in a role-playing or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs).

The actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games.

The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling it.

A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.

A level, map, area, stage, world, track, board, zone, or phase in a video game is the total space available to the player during the course of completing a discrete objective.

The term "level" can also refer to difficulty level, as in a degree of difficulty.