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With Dragon Age: Origins now released and set to receive another piece of DLC, called Return to Ostagar, in time for Christmas and with The Old Republic probably only coming at some point in 2011, the big marketing effort for BioWare and their publisher, Electronic Arts, is Mass Effect 2, the space based action role ... |
23 November 2009
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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... |
20 November 2009
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Florian Totu: Just yesterday, I finished the single-player campaign of Modern Warfare 2 and, even if I think that it was a very short game, I have to admit I liked it. The title was intense, frantic, captivating and the airport massacre was right up my alley, as I really enjoyed acting like a sociopath. A lot of peop... |
20 November 2009
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A lot of games have ended up on the desks around here and all of them look good enough to receive a review. At the frantic work pace that has been imposed by them, some things had to be taken down from the responsibilities board, while others got reassigned. As such, it seems like BioWare's Dragon age: Origins h... |
17 November 2009
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Cooperative gameplay seems to be one of the most present videogaming trends of 2009 with a lot of titles, like Borderlands, selling well mainly on the strength of the experience they can offer when played with one or three other buddies.Even Modern Warfare 2, traditionally focused on a single player experience and a ... |
17 November 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins can be a bit grating for those who do not like to read. Almost all of the old school role playing experiences on the PC or on gaming consoles are like that, mostly because their roots are in tabletop games that required hefty rule books, complex manuals and sometimes huge backstories written by th... |
16 November 2009
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A lot of people are complaining about the fact that Dragon Age: Origins is formulaic when it comes to the characters, the setting, and the story. Someone has even compiled a list of tropes which show up in all BioWare role playing games, from Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect. But after about 12 to 15 hours into Drag... |
13 November 2009
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Florian Totu: Wow. This is a bit of an odd moment for me. I've got nothing. Nothing new at least. I wasn't really over with Borderlands when I plunged into Dragon Age: Origins, but I was into the second Playthrough. Now, it's well over a week since I started fiddling with the intricate and treacherous ... |
13 November 2009
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I confess to getting through Baldur's Gate II five times, three with the Throne of Baal expansion installed. And min maxing became second nature. I looked at character classes, racial abilities, and possible development paths thinking about how powerful character might become at some point in the future. I ... |
11 November 2009
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With Dragon Age: Origins now out and capturing the fantasy of players, it's rather easy to forget that BioWare is also working on Mass Effect 2, which is set to arrive in January, and on The Old Republic, the Star Wars based MMO, which is set to arrive later in 2010. Related to the last project, the company has ... |
11 November 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins is now out all over the world and role playing fans are digging through its huge story and universe, trying different character combinations and various solutions to the conundrums the game presents.Those who love the role playing genre and fans of previous BioWare releases went one step ahead and... |
11 November 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins does not make it easy for the main character to assemble a happy and content adventuring party. You've got three character slots which you need to fill up and at least double the number of choices for the gamer to make. And, before you specialize, you'll see easily two people competing f... |
10 November 2009
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One of the big selling points for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game created by BioWare, is the varied origins which players can experience, sequences about two hours long that establish the background of the character the player is inhabiting, depending on the race and the class which he has chosen for the m... |
9 November 2009
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For all those of you that wanted to see what the hype about Mass Effect was all about but, for some reason, never actually got to buy the game, Steam comes to the rescue. But this is business, not charity, so its special offer has a harsh expiration date. Mass Effect for the PC will be going on sale for a mere $10 th... |
6 November 2009
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BioWare has announced that it plans to put together a Collector's Edition of Mass Effect 2, the space-based role playing game set to arrive in early 2010. The developer is saying that only a small number of the packages will be produced and that those who are interested in them should pre-order as soon as possib... |
6 November 2009
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Like every new idea that is born, downloadable content is something that was received with mixed reviews. Some people like the idea of prolonging a game's life by steadily adding new features, while others complain that it's just a money-steal, and the features present in the DLC could have been implemented... |
6 November 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins is officially out and on its feet and I've already managed to get about four hours of gameplay. The level of excitement I have for the game surpasses the one I had for Borderlands, mainly because I'm a lot more attracted to the “fantasy-sword-clashing” genre than to the first... |
4 November 2009
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BioWare's new approach on its products consisting of making good games even better by extending their life cycles seems to add another title to the expanding concept. Apparently, the upcoming Xbox 360 and PC title Mass Effect 2 has some rumors flying around that it is going to receive a serious amount of downloa... |
3 November 2009
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It seems that BioWare is including user-generated content in its plans for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game set to debut on the Xbox 360 and on the PC on November 3, and on the PlayStation 3 later on during the same month. The videogame marks a return to the roots for BioWare, with the company comparing it ... |
29 October 2009
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BioWare has announced that it plans to make sure that all players of Dragon Age: Origins have an option to actually follow the progress made in the role-playing game by their friends and, why not, their enemies. The idea is that all copies of the game, be they on the PC, the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360, will be lin... |
28 October 2009
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BioWare has announced yet another idea designed to attract gamers to Dragon Age: Origins, the role-playing experience that is set to arrive on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC on November 3. The company is set to host an event called Warden's Quest, which will see ten teams play the game for 24 hours i... |
27 October 2009
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I'm really glad I'm so excited about Dragon Age: Origins, because, if I hadn't been, I probably would have missed Journeys. I haven't really gotten into the whole browser-game cultural movement, mainly because every time I found myself in front of a computer I had a lot better games to go to. I ha... |
27 October 2009
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When Dragon Age:Origins got its first delay, from October 20 to November 3, PlayStation 3 owners got a crippling blow. The game's version for Sony's console received an unspecified launch date, and was left simply marked as to be ready "later in November." A reason, or any details regarding this decision we... |
26 October 2009
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One of the more unnerving sights of the last few months has been the marketing campaign for Dragon Age: Origins, the BioWare developed and Electronic Arts published role playing adventure set to arrive on the Xbox 360 and the PC on November 3.The promos, which used to focus on the fantasy world and on the various RPG... |
19 October 2009
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After Mass Effect proved to be a huge success, BioWare embarked on a journey to create a sequel. This second installment in the new series was first announced in February this year, and had a time stamp of "early 2010," but now it seems that it's going to be a lot earlier than even the most optimistic speculatio... |
19 October 2009
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It seems that BioWare is turning the PC version of its upcoming role playing game, Dragon Age: Origins, into something special by making it the only one where players can zoom out enough so that they get the birds eye tactical view used to control the party in the classic Baldur's Gate series, which was also bui... |
16 October 2009
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BioWare is certainly a busy company at the moment. It is getting ready to release Dragon Age: Origins on November 3, with a lot of content coming at launch and with promises of more DLC arriving soon after that, complete with a set of tools allowing players to create their own adventures.Then, it is set to deliver Ma... |
15 October 2009
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14:00. I should be playing Uncharted 2, as seen in this column yesterday, but instead I'm pretty much caught up in looking at all the options offered by the Character Creator for Dragon Age: Origins, which BioWare and Electronic Arts have released in anticipation of the full experience, set to arrive on November... |
14 October 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins has received a brand-new trailer and, unlike the previous one, it is a bit more in line with classic trailers role-playing games usually have. It's also a lot more fluid than the others, it's action packed and it's long. At 4 minutes this clip is pretty long for a trailer. The game ... |
13 October 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins is set to arrive on November 3 and BioWare is keen on making its old school fantasy role playing title as attractive to potential customers as possible. Their latest move is to announce a package of downloadable content that will be delivered to players on the same day as the game launches, allowi... |
9 October 2009
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Evidence indicates that Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO BioWare is working on at the moment, will be powered by micro transactions, at least in part. The source is the actual license agreement that players need to accept if they register for the beta stage of the MMO. The main references are to “points&rdq... |
5 October 2009
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Before Spore came out on the market, the gaming community got a taste of what the little bundles of wonder would look like through the Spore Creature Creator. The side application got almost more hype than the game itself, with the bizarre and downright ridiculous creations shocking the world times over. BioWare seem... |
5 October 2009
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Mass Effect 2 is set to arrive in early 2010 and BioWare, the developer, is promising that it will improve every aspect of the original game, which proved a success with its merging of role playing character progression and dialog with third person shooter mechanics.One element that the studio has been hyping is the ... |
2 October 2009
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If anyone can be directly held responsible for the improvements coming in Mass Effect 2, from the combat system that is less clunky to the more interactive conversations between characters, it's the players who have gotten through the first Mass Effect title and provided feedback to the developers at BioWare.Tal... |
30 September 2009
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Great news from BioWare regarding their Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG. Today a beta registration for the game has been opened up on the official game site. Not such great news is that the site crashed soon after news of the beta registration spread. Not good news for all the eager fans out there, but definitely ... |
30 September 2009
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Star Wars: The Old Republic is a very ambitious project. It aims to offer full-voice acting for the characters that make an appearance, which already sets it apart from every other MMO project going on at the moment. It aims to offer meaningful, moral choices for player parties that affect their development for the r... |
22 September 2009
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The big names of the gaming industry came together at the Game Developer Conference this August to share ideas and find solutions to the existing hardship the gaming world struggled with. One of the more interesting subjects tackled was that of using licensed concepts in an economically unstable time or not. Obsidi... |
18 September 2009
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Electronic Arts is announcing that BioWare, one of the most important development studios that it owns, has partnered up with Tor Books, one of the biggest publishers of fantasy titles on the market, in order to publish a novel set in the Dragon Age universe, called The Calling. David Gaider, who has a long pedigree ... |
17 September 2009
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Is loyalty to a developer possible when it comes to videogames? This is one of the questions which will be answered when Dragon Age: Origins, the BioWare developed middle fantasy RPG, arrives later in the year. A certain segment of players have always been attracted to games from the company because of the strong sto... |
10 September 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins is the project BioWare is set to release next, in the run up to Christmas and with the development studio well known for its complex story lines, gamers have set it high standards when it comes to the narrative of the videogame. So, it's a good thing to see one of the people working on Dragon... |
9 September 2009
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It seems that with World of Warcraft from Blizzard dominating the subscription- driven MMO market and with games like Tabula Rasa and Warhammer Online failing to do extremely well in the same space, the developers working on new MMOs are looking to new monetization models in an effort to attract gamers.LucasArts and ... |
9 September 2009
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When Mass Effect was initially released, as the biggest space-based role-playing game in years and with the perspective of a trilogy looming over it, Microsoft labeled it as being an Xbox 360 exclusive.The PC version was out six months later, following the tradition of other BioWare videogames like Star Wars: Knights... |
25 August 2009
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Dragon Age: Origins was recently announced as being delayed to November by BioWare, mostly to make sure that all the elements of the game were complete and the console versions optimized. But now the development studio has also announced a variety of details related to pre-orders, the Collector's Edition and off... |
13 August 2009
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BioWare has confirmed, on the official forums of its upcoming role playing game, that Dragon Age: Origins will not be shipping, as previously announced, on October 20. But it is not joining the ranks of those titles, the most outstanding of them being StarCraft II, that will be shipped in the first quarter of 2010 bu... |
10 August 2009
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BioWare is planning to do quite a bit of innovation to the concept of the role playing with Mass Effect 2. Most of the choices made in the first title in the trilogy will have a direct effect on the sequel.The combat system and the dialogue mechanics have been refined in order to allow players a wider array of experi... |
30 July 2009
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Ever since Mass Effect 2 was announced as being in development by BioWare, one of the more interesting features unveiled was that the game would be able to take the data out of a save for the first game in the series and reflect the choices the player made in the initial stages of the sequel.With the release dat... |
27 July 2009
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The PlayStation 3 is one of the most complicated consoles currently on the market as, although it has the biggest number of features and many aces up its sleeve, its high price tag and still relatively low number of blockbuster exclusives make it inferior in terms of user base, as opposed to its rivals, the Xbox 360 ... |
22 July 2009
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BioWare has announced that its upcoming role playing game Dragon Age: Origins will be getting, as usual nowadays, a Collector's Edition set to offer interested gamers quite a bit of extra content and some pretty cool behind the scenes features.If you plan to pick up the Xbox 360 version of the Collector's E... |
16 July 2009
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We've been hearing a lot about how some consoles offer distinct advantages over the others or how one specific platform is easier to develop for than the rest. While some developers or publishers praised the Xbox 360, others, especially studios that were working with Sony on exclusives, held the PlayStation 3 in... |
15 July 2009
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Video games can be split into many genres, each catering to a distinct niche of gamers all around the world. For quite some time, one of the most popular ones were shooters and role playing games, each differentiating itself through specific elements. But, as we heard last week from famous shooter designer Cliff Ble... |
13 July 2009
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