Alix Wilton Regan is taking on her biggest video game role yet as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider: Catalyst, but her history in the industry dates back to 2009 with a variety of minor roles in Dragon Age: Origins. Her career was intertwined with BioWare, and she took the opportunity to pay tribute to the studio at the Golden Joystick awards.

"We need to acknowledge how tough things are across our industry," Regan says. "Behind every game are talented, passionate people who have spent years bringing these worlds to life. Right now, too many of them are losing their jobs and their studios. The recent closure of BioWare is particularly personal to me. They gave me two video game roles in Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 3, and helped set me on the path that brings me here tonight."

In fact, Regan's BioWare credits go far deeper than that. She voiced numerous characters in Dragon Age: Origins and 2, and brought Samantha Traynor to life in Mass Effect 3. She also provided the British female voice for the player character in Dragon Age: Inquisition, a role she reprised in The Veilguard.

Speaking to GamesRadar+ on the red carpet ahead of the show, Regan says she's "incredibly sad" about BioWare's closure and was "genuinely very shocked" when she heard the news. "I think the word is slightly dumbfounded, that something so great and so powerful as a studio could have such a fall from grace, and it seems like such an abrupt closure, with no forewarning.

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