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I have written quite a few reviews this year, a Weekend Reading for every week and news every day and looking back on the whole year I cannot escape the feeling that this was, despite some very good games coming out, somewhat of a lost year for me and for the industry in general.Most publishers overhyped their games ... |
31 December 2011
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I was initially determined to give the Best Narrative award of the 2011 Softpedia series to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim because my last few weeks were dominated by its expansive world and adventures.Then, by chance, I watched the last episode of the Redemption web series created by BioWare and Felicia Day and I remem... |
22 December 2011
18:21 GMT |
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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
05:19 GMT |
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BioWare has just revealed a brand new downloadable add-on for Dragon Age 2, its recent action role playing game, bringing a new character, a female Elvin Assassin called Tallis, modeled after actress Felicia Day, who is set to star in a special webseries based on the game.
Dragon Age 2 impressed quite a lot of peo... |
19 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Dragon Age II will be on the receiving end of a big add-on later this month, with BioWare, its developer, confirming that the Legacy DLC is set to deliver a new batch of adventures for the main protagonist Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall.
Dragon Age II was released earlier this year and gained critical acclaim for... |
8 July 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has said that it plans to launch more downloadable content for its mix between role playing and action Dragon Age 2 in order to show fans that they have learned from their mistakes and can deliver improved content.Speaking to Eurogamer Ray Muzyka, who is one of the co founders of BioWare,... |
20 June 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 wasn't the great game its developer, BioWare, had hoped for, at least according to its writer, Mike Laidlaw, who took to the forums of the studio in order to quell the tide of criticism directed at the series.
Dragon Age 2 was released back in March and, even if it sold over 2 million copies sinc... |
31 May 2011
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The Witcher 2 is one of the few games in the last couple of years that have managed to really take a world, populate it with characters and then breathe life into it, making it engaging and appealing beyond the inherent limitations of the video game as a medium.The Witcher 2 cannot escape from being compared to Drago... |
30 May 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 will be on the receiving end of some new downloadable content, in the form of the Item Pack #1, which is now available on the PC, Mac and Xbox 360 platforms, while the PlayStation 3 still needs to wait.
Dragon Age 2 has been out for over a month now, and, in case you feel that your experience througho... |
28 April 2011
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The sales data released by the NPD Group for the United States video game market in the month of March has shown that Pokemon Black and White, the new entry in the long-running series, and Homefront, the first-person shooter from Kaos Studios and publisher THQ, have managed to top the chart and finally topple Call of... |
15 April 2011
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BioWare has just released the second patch for its recent Dragon Age 2 role-playing game, which aims at solving some of the various problems and issues encountered by players throughout the title's massive 40-hour long single-player campaign.
Dragon Age 2 was one of the biggest games of the beginning of the y... |
13 April 2011
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Before the weekend, we published a new piece of information about id Software's Rage, which said that the combination between a first-person shooter, a racing game and a role-playing game, would take around 15 hours to complete.
As you can imagine, the feelings are mixed and have once again contributed to the... |
9 April 2011
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BioWare and Electronic Arts are thrilled that Dragon Age 2 managed to sell over 1 million copies in just two weeks after it was launched, and have announced that throughout April, anyone who buys or has already bought Dragon Age 2 will get Mass Effect 2 on the PC for free.Dragon Age 2 was, without a doubt, one of the... |
6 April 2011
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I am the type of gamer that mainly enjoys strategy, turn-based when possible, and role playing games, from a Western developer mostly, and in a way Dragon Age: Origins managed to hit both those spots for me, with the role playing some of the best I've seen and combat that could be easily broken into turns, with ... |
2 April 2011
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How long can you go on playing Killzone 3 for? I played it for more than 12 hours, both single and multiplayer since getting the game towards the end of last week and I plan to play it all through this week too. What if we changed the game? How long can a gamer play Gran Turismo 5? How long can someone engage with a... |
26 March 2011
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Andrei Dumitrescu: It's been quite a few good weeks for my favorite types of games and I plan to spend more time with both Dragon Age 2 and Total War: Shogun 2 during this weekend.
Dragon Age 2 has initially been a bit of a disappointment for me, but I have been going through a second and third playthrough, u... |
25 March 2011
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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
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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
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With Dragon Age 2 now out and played by millions of gamers, the next big role-playing game launch of the year is The Witcher 2, the game developed by CD Projekt that is set to be launched on the PC on May 17.
The developers have shown quite a bit of the game, emphasizing that players will have a lot of choices for... |
23 March 2011
18:21 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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Homefront, the first-person shooter from publisher THQ and developer Kaos Studios, has managed to take the first position in the United Kingdom video game chart in its first week on sale, performing better than a number of other big releases.
Homefront has been widely debated last week, with analysts saying that t... |
22 March 2011
03:52 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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This week Dragon Age 2, the role-playing and action mix between BioWare and Electronic Arts, was still the main game being played here at Softpedia, but Total War: Shogun 2, from SEGA and The Creative Assembly, also made an appearance and will get more heavy play this weekend.We have a full review of Dragon Age 2 for... |
20 March 2011
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I like the narrative and the way it progresses better in Origins than in Dragon Age 2 and, while my review proves that I enjoyed the sequel, I would have liked the developers at BioWare to have taken more time in order to create a more complex and choice-laden story.
One area where I feel that Dragon Age 2 shines ... |
19 March 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I know it's March but, man, does the launch schedule feel like we are already in November.
The big games are coming fast these days and we barely have the time needed to keep up with everything that is happening in the video game world.
I've finished Dragon Age 2 once for my review,... |
18 March 2011
17:51 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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Dragon Age 2 does quite a few things right, including playing as a mage, giving a voice to the main character or adding a new dialog wheel.
Unfortunately, it does have a few flaws, with one in particular bugging me ever since I finished the game.
As you all know, in Dragon Age 2, you play as Hawke, the Champion... |
16 March 2011
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Dragon Age 2 is a clear sign that, when it comes to the role-playing experience, BioWare is determined to innovate and not just iterate. Unfortunately, innovation is not always a good idea when it comes to a franchise with apparently established rules and the opinion of gamers will be divided on the changes that the ... |
15 March 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 brings quite a lot of improvements over its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins.
We've already talked about how much better playing as a mage is in the new title, and how the dialog wheel, even if it can be a bit confusing, is a step forward over the list of phrases from the first game.
Now, we&#... |
15 March 2011
08:20 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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Developer BioWare has launched a beta patch for the PC version of its role-playing game Dragon Age 2, aiming to fix some issues that the game has with computers that have just one computing core and other smaller problems.Here are the included fixes as posted on the official BioWare site:- Fixed save game issues on s... |
14 March 2011
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The video game that took up most of my time this week was Dawn of War II: Retribution, the new strategy game from Relic and THQ, which got a review from Softpedia and a series of Gamer Diaries.We also have a review for the High Definition remake of Beyond Good & Evil and have started a new set of diaries that focus o... |
13 March 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I cannot yet fully give up Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution although I finished the campaign with two races and played quite a bit of multiplayer with the new standalone expansion.
I still have the Orks to use in all the missions, enjoying their mindless humor and weapon desc... |
11 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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BioWare, just as its new Dragon Age 2 game is being released all around the world, is adamant that the console versions of the title won't be viewed as simple ports of the PC version.
Dragon Age: Origins, the predecessor of the new game, played quite differently on the PC as opposed to consoles, and many Play... |
11 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 has just been launched by its developer, BioWare, and publisher, Electronic Arts, this week.
Even if I played Dragon Age: Origins with a warrior, I decided to check out the mage class in its sequel, Dragon Age 2, and was quite impressed with what BioWare delivered.
Usually, when it comes to combat ... |
11 March 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 is the new role-playing game from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts that takes the world established in Origins and builds a new narrative built tightly around Hawke.
Here's how my first hour with the game went.
14:00. BioWare did a very smart thing by opting to have a rather sho... |
8 March 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 has just been launched today in North America for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and BioWare has already unleashed a special treat for PC owners: the high resolution texture pack, which we announced earlier today.
But, considering the texture pack weighs in at a hefty 1.08GB and is only recommend... |
8 March 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Dragon Age 2 is getting released today so BioWare decided to deliver a high resolution texture pack for PC users that want their game to look the best.
Dragon Age 2 is set to really polish up the graphics and mechanics of the first game, Dragon Age: Origins, and the PC will once more be the platform that receives ... |
8 March 2011
02:50 GMT |
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The main designer working on the upcoming role-playing game Dragon Age 2 from BioWare has said that mechanics taken from the genre have become widespread throughout the gaming industry, meaning that a lot more people are actually prepared to try out a more traditional experience in the same space.
Mike Laidlaw, wh... |
28 February 2011
16:21 GMT |
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It's been a busy week for gamers, with two long-awaited video game demos, for the role-playing game Dragon Age 2 and the strategy Total War: Shogun 2, finally going live, and we have Demo Look articles for both of them, detailing our early impressions of the games.
We also have a One Hour With article and a Q... |
27 February 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: The big launch of the previous week was Killzone, the first-person shooter that is exclusive to the PlayStation 3 home console from Sony, and I plan to spend most of my weekend battling the orange-eyed Helghast and try to find a way out of their planet.The game, as my Quick Look shows, is a clear i... |
25 February 2011
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BioWare has stated that it has purposely aimed to lower the barrier of entry for players who are interested in Dragon Age 2, in order to make sure that even those gamers who could not learn the mechanics of the first in the series could play and enjoy it.Speaking to Destructoid after the demo for Dragon Age 2 was rel... |
25 February 2011
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The demo for Dragon Age 2 is now widely available, including from Softpedia, and it's time to take a look at the new game from BioWare and make a quick judgment on whether it has been dumbed down for a console audience or whether it's still a solid game that takes into account the advantages of the PC.The d... |
23 February 2011
06:15 GMT |
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The Dragon Age 2 demo has finally been released onto the web by its developer, BioWare, showing the players all of the new features in the upcoming role-playing game. Without a doubt, one of the most anticipated sequels of the year is Dragon Age 2, BioWare's follow-up to its extremely popular RPG, Dragon Age: O... |
22 February 2011
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BioWare, the developer of the upcoming Dragon Age 2 role-playing game, has announced that it will be unlocking two items that can be used by anyone in the full version of the game as long as the demo version, which is launched on February 22, will be downloaded and played more than 1 million times. These are the two... |
21 February 2011
04:32 GMT |
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Felicia Day, the actress best known to video game players for the work she has done on The Guild, is set to star and write for a web-only series that is based on the upcoming Dragon Age 2, a role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.Day will play an elven rogue, called Tallis, that throu... |
16 February 2011
06:06 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that another character fans of the Dragon Age series have seen in Origins will return as a companion for the sequel, with players able to recruit the Dalish Keeper Merrill to their party, acting as a powerful offensive spell caster.Merrill was part of the Dalish Elf origin in the first Dragon Ag... |
15 February 2011
08:31 GMT |
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All of the achievements for the upcoming Dragon Age 2 role-playing game have just been revealed, showcasing some of the challenges that must be met by players in order to unlock them.
Expect the achievements below to be present both in the PC and Xbox 360 editions of the game, as well as in the PlayStation 3 one, ... |
14 February 2011
14:21 GMT |
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BioWare has pretty much confirmed that Anders, the mage that is part of the player party in the Awakening expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, will be one of the first characters that Hawke will meet in the upcoming Dragon Age 2.The information appears in this month's Game Informer magazine and one of the main dev... |
8 February 2011
06:04 GMT |
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