"What's worse: a gaming site giving a cruddy, just-released title a favorable review based on gifts and donations by publishers, or an employee of the game's developer secretly posing as a mere consumer and writing perfect-ten review?

Unfortunately, both scenarios are prime examples of how the gaming industry unsuspectingly slithers into your wallet.

Ray Muzyka interview on VG247 talks with the BioWare boss about a variety of topics in a conversation at the recently concluded GamesCom trade show. They discuss upcoming projects, including Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect 2, and Dragon Age: Origins. Also touched upon is the changes that left him in charge of Mythic, the impact managing Warhammer Online has on their internal projects, new IPs, and when an announcement of their unrevealed project is expected: "[Laughs] Well, it hasn’t been announced when it’s going to be announced.