BioWare Founders Recognized on Canada Day

As part of this past Sunday’s Canada Day celebrations, UGO has compiled a list of what they feel are the top eleven “awesome Canadians” in recent times. Making the list at #7 are BioWare’s Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk:

It may be hard to believe this, but there was a time when Dungeons & Dragons was dead in the video game world. The successful “gold box” games were but distant memories, and CRPGs were on their last legs. Then came Bioware. Under the capable leadership of two worthy Canucks – Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk – the Edmonton-based company changed all that. The release of Baldur’s Gate in 1998 brought D&D back to digital gaming and made RPGs awesome again. Then, after a sequel and the excellent Neverwinter Nights, they topped themselves with probably the best piece of Star Wars-related fiction in the past 10 years (and, yes, I’m including the prequels), Knights of the Old Republic. Bioware has yet to publish a bad game and, with Mass Effect looking like the hottest thing on the Xbox 360 not called Halo, shows no sign of slowing down. None of this would have been possible without Drs. Ray and Greg, and so we salute them and their noble compatriots.