This Sunday, you can check out the Softpedia review for Modern Warfare 2, which is already selling like hotcakes, read the journal related to playing Dragon Age: Origins, read a Weekend Reading piece linked to videogames and movies or check out the EndWeekGame piece we've put together. But you can also take a look at the most important news stories of the week that passed.On Monday, we talked about Final Fantasy XIII, which was confirmed as coming to the West on March 9, 2010, and we also heard that another game set for next year, Dead Space 2, could actually be getting multiplayer. Tuesday was the day when Sony confirmed the existence... [read more >>] Activision was right. Bringing in 550 million dollars in revenue in the first five days on sales, Modern Warfare 2, the sequel created by Infinity Ward, has become the biggest entertainment release in history, beating out videogames like Grand Theft Auto IV and movies like The Dark Knight and the various Harry Potter releases. The talk about the Citizen Kane of videogames should subside for a while as analysts discus about how videogaming is set to displace movies as the big medium for entertainment releases.The question is whether videogaming really wants to take the place of movies in the entertainment area. The budgets are similar, espec... [read more >>] A lot of people have focused on the overall story of Dragon Age: Origins and have pointed out how it managed to still adhere to the tropes of the computer role playing game and the BioWare way of creating it while making a world that feels vastly different from the one of Dungeons & Dragons. But one of the aspects of the game where developers seem to have poured a lot of love is the side quests that are connected to the companions you can have in your party.All these people seem pretty one dimensional at first sight. Alistair is the goody two shoes who cannot take the lead in any situation and cannot counter the verbal assault coming from M... [read more >>] If you live in Australia and you feel that you're being cheated by the delayed release of games and the censorship of the Australian Board, and the consequent banning of some violent titles, you don't have the right to complain about it anymore. Also, if you live in some other part of the world and feel in some way wronged when it comes to video games, you too have officially been denied the right to whine about it. No matter what your wounds and emotional scars are, they're nothing but a wood splinter stuck in your finger compared to the brutal evisceration that Sony did to Brazil. The console market has seen a lot of pric... [read more >>] Electronic Arts and BioWare have announced that they plan to release a new piece of downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins, which was received in early November, in time for Christmas. The fresh content will be called Return to Ostagar and will allow players to go back to the area where the climactic battle near the beginning of the role playing experience took place and search for the armor and the weapons used by the fallen King Cailan.BioWare is emphasizing this is not a mere fetch quest that will net the player a new set of equipment to use and give to their followers. Surveying the place where the armies of humans were smashed by... [read more >>] The Dukes of Hazard: Return of the General Lee is a videogame developed by Ratbag Pty. Ltd. and published by Ubisoft. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the original Xbox from Microsoft in September 2004. It is classed as an action adventure title featuring driving elements and is based on the popular classic television series that also made into a feature film.The game allows players to step into the well worn Western boots of Bo and Luke Duke as they use the General Lee in order to save their uncle Jesse from the evil machinations of crime boss Boss Hogg, as he plans to take over the county of Hazard. The ra... [read more >>] Dragon Age: Origins is a great single player role playing experience. I can see myself replaying the game a lot of times, trying out the various origins and exploring the choices I can make as a character. But mainly because I think the game has legs and because of the fact that BioWare will surely release further content for the universe, there are a few small issues that can annoy players and only become more apparent the more people play.First off, Dragon Age needs to make sure a system is implemented that allows players to actually establish a frontline. I cannot accept Hurlocks moving between my two tanks to assault my mage even if the... [read more >>] Activision is reporting that Modern Warfare 2 is estimated to have brought in no less than 550 million dollars in revenue in the first five days on sale. Microsoft statistics also show that the title has been played for more than 5.2 million hours in the multiplayer modes and that 11 million Xbox 360 Achievements were earned on launch day only.Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at Activision, has said that “In just five days of sell-through, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the largest entertainment launch in history and a pop culture phenomenon.”People should note that he is not only referring to videogaming but... [read more >>] There are four discreet areas the player needs to get through in Dragon Age: Origins in order to get the support of allies in their fight against the Darkspawn and their Archdemon. One of them is the aptly named Mage Circle, a structure filled to the rim with magic practitioners supervised by the Chantry sponsored Templars, a group of fighters that are dedicating their lives to make sure that magic is not used against humanity.The Circle quickly devolves into navigating the ethereal land known as The Fade, where demons and other spirits are existing, able to watch the real world but normally unable to actually influence it.The powers of the... [read more >>] We've already written about how Microsoft has begun to ban modded Xbox 360 home gaming consoles from the Xbox Live service, which includes severing access to multiplayer gaming and friend communication.There are estimates saying that no less than 600,000 users have been banned for modifying their devices, most of them in order to be able to get access to pirated titles. The ban was designed to hit at the same time as the launch of Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter widely targeted by pirates because of its popularity in multiplayer.A spokesperson from Microsoft told IGN that “If you purchase a modified console second-hand... [read more >>] | 
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