Following a growing trend in which popular video games are briefly featured in episodes of procedural detective dramas, Dragon Age: Inquisition was quickly shown in this week’s new episode of NCIS. The recently released BioWare title can be seen just for a few seconds in the latest NCIS episode, titled “Blast from the Past,” which originally aired on February 24. Dragon Age: Inquisition fans can check out the small cameo of BioWare’s fantasy franchise since the episode will be available for online viewing from the CBS website for the next five weeks.

The Dragon Age: Inquisition footage can be seen at the 8:53 mark of this week’s episode of NCIS. Unfortunately for video game fans, the show doesn’t exactly show a lot of respect for gamers. While searching a private residence, characters from the show mock the fact that a grown man would still play video games after finding Dragon Age: Inquisition playing by itself.

Oddly enough, that’s not a figurative description of the NCIS scene either. After a television is turned on, the show literally cuts to footage of Dragon Age: Inquisition actively being played despite the fact that no one was actually controlling the game. Furthermore, the user interface depicted was clearly from the PC version of Dragon Age: Inquisition while the game was being displayed on a television screen.

Dragon Age: Inquisition as featured on NCIS

Despite the scene’s negative connotation towards video games, Dragon Age: Inquisition creative director Mike Laidlaw didn’t take the NCIS writers attitude for the industry personally. In fact, he simply laughed about the game’s small cameo on the long-running show by joking with fans about the appearance. Laidlaw revealed from his personal Twitter account that his family also noticed Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s inclusion in this week’s NCIS episode.

Turns out my parents were watching that NCIS episode with DA in it (briefly) and are now “just tickled”.

While NCIS might not have shown much respect to those who play video games, someone working on the show still purposely chose to feature BioWare’s latest title which indicates that at least someone on the NCIS team is aware that Dragon Age: Inquisition is a popular new video game release.

When not having their game shown on detective shows, the Dragon Age: Inquisition team are currently working on the upcoming first DLC pack for the game. As the Inquisitr reported earlier this month, Dragon Age: Inquisition producer Mark Darrah finally confirmed at the beginning of February that work on the title’s initial DLC is now underway.

[Images via CBS, Dragon Age]