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Dragon Age Origins: Return to Ostagar coming as DLC this holiday season

by John Callaham Nov 19th 2009 @ 1:00PM

Fans of BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins have already been able to download some extra content for the fantasy RPG. Today BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts announced plans to offer up another extra downloadable quest for the game. The DLC, titled Return to Ostagar, is due for release "this holiday season". That most likely means it will be available for download before the end of 2009.

The new quest will return players "to the fateful battleground in Ostagar" where they will "discover King Cailan's top-secret political agenda." Wow. Sounds a little bit like our world has entered into BioWare's fantasy kingdom. The DLC will cost 400 "BioWare points" (about $5) to download. We don't like the idea of purchasing "BioWare points" to download extra content but . . .oh well.

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Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, RPG, Dragon Age: Origins

Mass Effect 2 gets new box art design

by John Callaham Nov 17th 2009 @ 7:00PM

It's unusual for a publisher to go back and redesign the box art for a game. Yet that's what Bioware and Electronic Arts have decided to do with the artwork for the Mass Effect 2 retail release. You can check out the original artwork in our earlier August 2 story.

We are not quite sure why the companies decided to go back and do a revamp of the box art. Quite frankly the original looks more dynamic and action packed to us. This new version seems to have the characters in less dynamic poses. Oh well, marketing was never our strong point.

Gallery: Mass Effect 2

Filed under: RPG, Mass Effect Series

Download: Dragon Age: Origins v1.01b Patch

by Steven Wong Nov 17th 2009 @ 6:45PM

This minor patch for Dragon Age: Origins addresses a number of issues and makes some tweaks to gameplay stats. Continue reading after the jump for a list of changes.

Download Dragon Age: Origins v1.01b Patch (15 MB)
Download Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator (318 MB)
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Filed under: Downloads, Patches, RPG, Dragon Age: Origins

New PC Gamer mag has exclusive Dragon Age: Origins level on DVD

by John Callaham Nov 15th 2009 @ 1:00PM

Dragon Age: Origins has already made a mark in terms of its official downloadable content with publisher Electronic Arts stating that the new fantasy RPG has already generated over $1 million in revenue from its current DLC offerings. Now comes word that the new issue of PC Gamer magazine, now on newsstands, has an exclusive Dragon Age: Origins level made by the BioWare team on its magazine DVD.

The mini-campaign is titled A Tale Of Orzammer and according to a post on the game's message boards by BioWare's David Sims, " . . . .this is a short stand-alone adventure, not an expansion of the main game." He added, "It's just something put together in collaboration with the magazine as an example of the kind of content that can be made using the toolset." So don't expect this mini-campaign to have a lot of polish but it's still something fairly unique if you are a Dragon Age: Origins completist.

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Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, RPG, Dragon Age: Origins

Freeware Friday: Dragon Age: Journeys

by James Murff Nov 13th 2009 @ 8:00PM

Welcome to Freeware Friday, a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge!

Dragon Age: Origins is out there amidst consumers, garnering both critical and commercial recognition for its dark atmosphere, excellent story, and entertaining combat. However, there's more to the Dragon Age series besides Origins. EA2D, makers of the excellent Mirror's Edge 2D, decided to take the 2D browser approach to the Dragon Age franchise. The end result is Dragon Age: Journeys, a spin-off game that manages to be good on its own while still providing you with bonuses in the main game itself. Those that love strategy and role-playing games should definitely try it out.

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Filed under: Features, Browser, RPG, Strategy, Dragon Age: Origins

EA: Over $1 million already earned with Dragon Age: Origins DLC

by John Callaham Nov 13th 2009 @ 11:00AM

Electronic Arts needs some good news to offset the word that 1,500 of their team members will be laid off by March 2010. They got it with the release of Dragon Age: Origins, the recently released RPG from their BioWare studio. While the game has only been available for just over a week, it looks like their downloadable content has been popular so far.

Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets 17th Annual Digital Entertainment Conference (the audio replay can be heard at EA's investor site), EA's executive vice president and CFO Eric Brown stated that the game's DLC have generated "well past $1 million" in revenues. BioWare has already stated they have long term plans for more downloadable content for the game.

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Review: Dragon Age: Origins

by Steven Wong Nov 11th 2009 @ 5:00PM

The newest opus from famed developer BioWare is the dark fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins. This massive game features a story filled with blood, violence and sex topped with BioWare's signature morality system, where players have the option to become saints or ruthless tyrants. Players take the role a newly recruited Grey Warden, an elite group of individuals charged with the responsibility of protecting the world from a catastrophic event called the Blight, which is when evil darkspawn creatures gather together into a massive army under the direction of an arch-demon to ravage the world. Similar to the Spectres from Mass Effect, BioWare's sci-fi role-playing counterpart, Grey Wardens are highly respected and their jurisdiction stretches across all the lands. Their sole purpose is to recruit from all walks of life and do whatever it takes to stop the Blight.

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Dragon Age: Origins dev diary brings forth gruesome combat

by Steven Wong Nov 10th 2009 @ 7:30PM

BioWare goes in-depth on the combat system of Dragon Age: Origins. Not only does it offer the breadth of control players need to tactically position and use their characters. Combat also works to help define the game as a visceral, dark and mature fantasy role-playing game.

Download HD Dragon Age: Origins 'Designing Combat' Developer Diary HD (331 MB)
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Star Wars: The Old Republic web comic to be collected in paperback

by John Callaham Nov 10th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Several months ago, BioWare and LucasArts teamed up with Dark Horse Comics to present a continuing online comic book series based on the upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. A few pages of the comic at a time have been released on the game's official web site ever since.

But sometimes you want to read a comic where a PC, even a laptop, should not go. So Dark Horse plans to collect the first 27 online "issues" of the series into one 96 page softcover collection. The series, written by Rob Chestney and drawn by Alex Sanchez, serves as a prequel to the events in the MMO and will be released to comic book stores on April 28.

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Filed under: MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic

BioWare's Neverwinter Nights downloadable modules no longer available

by John Callaham Nov 8th 2009 @ 6:30PM

If you happened to get a copy of BioWare's original Neverwinter Nights RPG and wanted to check out some of their extra downloadable modules for the game, you are out of luck at least for now. BioWare is no longer selling or supporting the many downloadable modules (Kingmaker, ShadowGuard, Witch's Wake, Pirates of the Sword Coast, Infinite Dungeons and Wyvern Crown of Cormyr) they have created for the game. In fact they have not been doing so since the end of August.

What happened? According to BioWare's own message boards, the game's publisher Atari, " . . . has asked us to stop selling the modules through our store. All support for NwN products is now handled directly by Atari through their customer support channels." Atari currently owns the rights to the game but at the moment they are not selling the original Neverwinter Night title or any of the downloadable modules on their online store. People who have already purchased and installed the downloadable modules can still play them on their PC.

[Via Blue's News]

Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, RPG

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