One big problem with most role playing videogames has been the sense of scale. Think of Dragon Age: Origins where you are supposed to be a Grey Warden, which is fighting to stop a Blight that could actually engulf the entire world. You need to recruit allies and assault an Archdemon. Yet, as you walk the halls of Orzzamar, trying to get the dwarves on your side, you can pretty much progress without meeting more than 50 characters which have something to say and do. The rest are enemies which you kill and little non player characters which show up for a frame or two and then disappear. You get to save the world in the end, but it feels ... [read more >>] 3D seems to be the next huge thing in videogaming, with more and more developers thinking about offering game experiences which rely on special television sets and on special glasses to add a lot more depth. And Sony, which is manufacturing the television sets with 3D technology, is saying that adding it to the PlayStation 3 will be easily done via a firmware update, with no need to tinker with new hardware.A new document which has been released to investors clearly states “All PS3 units will be firmware-upgradeable to 3D”. The technology is at the moment not too developed and few titles, like G-Force from Disney and Invincible ... [read more >>] Dynasty Tactics is a video game which was created and published by KOEI Ltd. Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 home gaming console from Sony. It arrived on September 11, 2002. The game is classed as being a hybrid between a role playing experience and a strategy game with elements taken from real life history which is being played from an isometric top down perspective.Dynasty Tactics is a game spun off from the well-known and long-running Dynasty Warriors franchise which KOEI is still working on. The narrative arc of the videogame borrows quite heavily from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a Chinese written epic tha... [read more >>] 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 >>] | 
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