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BioWare, the developer behind the recent Dragon Age 2 role playing game, was surprised to see that many users didn't enjoy the more streamlined game and demanded that it should have stuck more closely to its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins.Dragon Age 2 was released back in March and the general reaction was pol... |
3 October 2011
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Publisher Electronic Arts and developer BioWare have finally announced that launch date for their Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, telling players to prepare to play it on December 20 in North America and on the 22nd in Europe.The announcement will come as a relied for those who were worried that the game might slip ... |
26 September 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 has received a lot of negative feedback, some even from our own diary series, which pointed out the underdeveloped Qunari, the changes to Anders or the missed opportunities with having Varric as the narrator.One of the major aspects that was heavily debated since the game's release is its length, wh... |
25 March 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 made quite a few interesting changes to the classes of the game, with the mage feeling much more dynamic and versatile, the rogue feeling a bit more powerful, especially when it comes to wielding bows, while the warrior retaining its already impressive offensive skills.
Unfortunately, if you choose to... |
24 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Combat in Dragon Age 2 has been overhauled, as opposed to the same system in its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins, with BioWare, its developer, putting an emphasis on speed and fluidity.
Another important aspect in the combat of the new role-playing game is the ability to perform cross class combos.
These requi... |
23 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2's companions are more fleshed out than the ones in the first Dragon Age: Origins, but their decisions are a bit weird sometimes.
This is extremely apparent with Anders, the mage that makes a comeback in the new game after his first appearance in Origins' Awakening expansion.
This time, ho... |
22 March 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 brought a lot of changes over its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins, including overhauls of the mage class, a faster, more brutal gameplay and a new interface.
Another big change is the introduction of Kirkwall, the city where almost all of the action of the game takes place.
In Dragon Age: Origins,... |
21 March 2011
08:15 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 does quite a few things right, including making the mage class fun or giving interesting stories to the companions, but also makes a few mistakes, including the under-developed Qunari or, as we're going to talk today, the failed connections to Dragon Age: Origins, its predecessor.
When fans of th... |
18 March 2011
10:15 GMT |
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BioWare may have missed some opportunities with its latest Dragon Age 2 title, especially with the Qunari civilization which, even if it was central to the story, didn't receive any cohesive background, but the Canadian developer struck gold once more with the companions found in the game by the main protagonist... |
17 March 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 has been out for a week and already we've talked about how the Mage class is actually fun to play with, as opposed to its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins.
Now, we'll address another new feature the game has over its predecessor: the dialog wheel.
Dragon Age: Origins featured a silent pro... |
14 March 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: It's now 2011, but there's still some time to go before we begin to see significant new releases, starting with the PlayStation 3 exclusive Little Big Planet 2 and with the multiplatform Dead Space 2, which drop at the end of January.
Until then I plan to keep up with my old obsessions... |
7 January 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2, the successor to last year's Dragon Age: Origins, will have an improved downloadable content strategy, at least judging by the statements of its lead designer, Mike Laidlaw.
According to the BioWare Edmonton Executive, Dragon Age: Origins was a great title, but the DLC that was released for it a... |
28 December 2010
18:01 GMT |
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TransGaming, a renowned developer of software products that facilitate the deployment and distribution of games across multiple platforms, has announced the release of Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening for Mac OS X.The expansion pack is available now for all Mac gamers through TransGaming’s digital download Mac g... |
1 September 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Mike Laidlaw, the lead designer of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, recently left the PC gamer fans of BioWare in dismay after declaring that there would be no modding tools and strategic camera coming with the PC version of Dragon Age 2. The aerial view was left out because of financial concerns, as it needed a... |
9 August 2010
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BioWare has announced a new piece of downloadable content for its hit role playing game Dragon Age: Origins. It is entitled Golems of Amgarrak and it will be released simultaneously on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Marketplace and PC for 5 dollars or 400 Microsoft and BioWare Points. The developer is boasting th... |
29 July 2010
04:21 GMT |
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BioWare's Greg Zeschuk recently defended the controversial decisions his company took with Dragon Age II, changing the combat system and restricting the player character's race to human, with dwarfs or elves no longer available. Furthermore, in the style of Mass Effect, he or she will have a name, in ... |
15 July 2010
06:56 GMT |
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A Dragon Age 2 official announcement may be just one day away, according to a BioWare Twitter post. The latest tweet on the Biofeed states that “2morrow will be a great day for BioWare fans. Just sayin'.” The only BioWare game that we know as being in development and featuring the number two in the t... |
8 July 2010
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The PC is still the lead development platform for BioWare and it will continue to be so for a long time. The role playing games that the developer creates are better suited to the mouse-and-keyboard control scheme rather than to console pads, according to the writing director for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Daniel E... |
25 June 2010
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GameStop, the biggest videogame specialist retailer, seems to be ready to replace the paid Edge card linked to its rewards program with a new initiative, called PowerUp Rewards, which, at the time, is tested in Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee.An inside source has indicated that the new program will be launched country w... |
26 May 2010
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BioWare has launched the new patch for the PlayStation 3 version of its highly successful role-playing game, Dragon Age: Origins, in both North America and Europe. The update fixes the game crashes caused by Sony's recent upgrade to the 3.3 firmware, the downloadable content store in-game not showing the free co... |
20 May 2010
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After a launch schedule for the Xbox Live service spoiled the beans, BioWare decided to come out and officially talk about the new downloadable content that their Dragon Age: Origins would be getting in the coming weeks. The new pack will be called Darkspawn Chronicles and is set to arrive on May 18 and will actually... |
6 May 2010
16:41 GMT |
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I really like what BioWare is trying to do with Dragon Age. It's a pretty classic fantasy with streamlined but not dumb party combat mechanics, featuring a new world to develop, explore, see, change, and a clear long term plan for the series, complete with novels and possibly other tie-ins. But I don't like... |
3 April 2010
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James Collins, a player in Hayward, California, has filed a lawsuit against retail chain GameStop claiming that the company is “deceptively misleading” all its customers by making it seem like buying a used game will grant access to all the DLC released for the game, when this is not always the case.Colli... |
1 April 2010
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I've never expected the R.U.S.E. open beta, currently available for all those who have a Steam account and the patience to download it, to grab me as much as it has.As detailed in my initial impressions of the current state of the title developed by Eugen Systems, it's not a very complex gaming experience a... |
19 March 2010
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The Bulletin, an outlet, which describes itself as “Philadelphia's family newspaper,” has discovered that videogaming might be a fertile medium for the influence of Satan and printed a piece that advises readers to beware of the games that attack God and Christianity.The main evidence of the Satanic ... |
4 March 2010
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the PlayStation 3 exclusive developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony launched in late 2009, has been the big winner at the 13th edition of the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards traditionally held at the DICE conference.The title picked up the Game of the Year award and took home ... |
22 February 2010
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BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, are sending word that Mass Effect 2 has managed to sell more than 2 million units since it was released on January 26 in North America and on January 29 in Europe. The hybrid between a role playing game and a cover-based shooter is available for the Xb... |
1 February 2010
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The NPD Group, as part of an end of year wrap up, has offered a list of the ten best selling PC videogames in the United States in 2009, showing that The Sims 3, created by the team at Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, sold better than World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the MMO expansion put out by... |
18 January 2010
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It's been the first full week of 2010 and already the year in videogaming is in full swing. We have a Weekend Reading piece about how this year might actually mark the end of some successful franchises and game models, an EndGameWeek column and a lot of news from the last seven days.On Monday, we talked about th... |
10 January 2010
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BioWare, probably the best role playing gaming developer in the world at the moment thanks to franchises like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has announced that its 2009 released Origins is confirmed to get a full expansion, called The Awakening, on March 16. The new content for the game will be arriving on the PC, the X... |
6 January 2010
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It's hard to choose a Game of the Year at the worst of times, when there are few good releases in a year, and even harder in a 2009, which has seen huge critical and commercial successes out, hence the use of “my” in this series of articles, suggesting both the subjective nature of the choices and th... |
30 December 2009
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BioWare has finally announced a release date for the Return to Ostagar downloadable content package for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game it released earlier in 2009.The new content will arrive on the Xbox 360 home gaming console and on the PC on January 5, while those playing it on the PlayStation 3 will ha... |
30 December 2009
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As far as the gaming industry goes, the really big developing fields are America and Japan. While there is no real competition between the two, and both tend to stay out of each other’s way, western games tend to have a North American release while Japanese ones also tend to be localized. When a title truly hit... |
21 December 2009
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Recently, Dragon Age: Origins shipped with downloadable content in the form of the Shale companion and quests, which are available to all those who get the game new, and in the form of the Warden's Keep area and storage facility that also adds some unique armor and fresh abilities for the main character.After th... |
12 December 2009
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Modern Warfare 2, as predicted, has dominated the software sales for the month of November in the United States, managing to move more copies than any other launch on the Microsoft made Xbox 360. Surprisingly, the game also managed to take the second place in the software chart with the PlayStation 3 version. The PC ... |
11 December 2009
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BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that they are releasing a new application, called Gift of the Yeti, on Facebook, which will be playable by all those who have an account and allows those who play it to get 10 dollars off the price of a new copy of Dragon Age: Origins, w... |
7 December 2009
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I've finished Dragon Age: Origins two times now and I am preparing for a third playthrough (I am thinking about a Arcane Warrior Blood Mage hybrid). And the role playing experience which the people at BioWare have managed to deliver is pretty spectacular from the beginning to the end. But, as always, the experie... |
28 November 2009
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One of the biggest charges made at Fallout 3 when it made its bid for 2008 Game of the Year was that its ending was totally unsatisfying, lacking any concrete detail on the fates of the various locales you went through and leaving the player wondering whether all the trouble he went through was worth it. Dragon Age: ... |
25 November 2009
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You know what rules in the Dragon Age game world? A party made up of three mages and just one warrior specializing as a tank. There are mages, Morrigan and Wynne, that you can recruit in the game and can concentrate on damage dealing and on healing and buffs. The player can also create a mage character and specialize... |
24 November 2009
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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 o... |
23 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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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 lo... |
22 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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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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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 nea... |
20 November 2009
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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 co... |
19 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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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 Te... |
18 November 2009
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Some people have been talking about how Dragon Age uses the same fantasy stereotypes that have been embraced by every other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired videogame. But the art of the creators at BioWare is to actually take familiar stereotypes, like the tall, goody two shoes, art loving, blond haired elves and turn th... |
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
18:21 GMT |
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This week has been all about playing Dragon Age: Origins and not much else. This has resulted in five diary type installments you can read right now. But we also have the regular Weekend Reading feature, a fresh edition of EndGameWeek and an assortment of other news pieces we think are worth reading.On Monday, we fou... |
13 November 2009
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Football Manager 10 from SEGA was the top videogame on the United Kingdom market last week and it seemed that football-oriented titles would be dominating the chart until the November 10 release of Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward and Activision. But in a somewhat surprising move, Wii Fit Plus from Nintendo has ta... |
12 November 2009
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