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"The Department of Electronic Entertainment has compiled and evaluated all sales on video games for this weekend, and is prepared to present a decisive recommendation for which weekend digital deal will have the greatest economic impact on both the national economy and individual finances:"
"One of the more controversial topics with BioWare’s Dragon Age series has been the option to engage in a relationship with characters of the same sex as your avatar, something that has now become an option for both genders in Mass Effect 3. In order to clarify just where the developer stands on the issue, studio heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk stated it was all a matter of providing choice to the player."
"PSN Discounts
Rocket Knight – 50% off – January 3 (PS+ Price $7.50)
Burnout Crash! – 30% off – January 10 (PS+ Price $4.89)
Crysis – 30% off – January 10 (PS+ Price $10.49)
Deathspank – 30% off – January 10 (PS+ Price $6.99)
Fancy Pants Adventure – 30% off – January 10 (PS+ Price $4.89)
Gatling Gears – 30% off – January 10 (PS+ Price $4.89)
See the full list for full details."
"The shopping frenzy nears its end this weekend as the New Year approaches. All of the online retailers and digital distributors are winding up their Holiday sales, but gamers still have a few days left to stock up enough games to tide them over until the prophesized Mayan Apocalypse annihilates us all. The DoEE has compiled the best sales of the weekend and below presents our recommendation for Best Deal of the Week."
Well everyone it has happened again. A person acting alone has done a major crime only to have the blame passed on to media entertainment. After a terror attack in Norway games like dragon age, bioshock and Modern Warfare 2 are taking heat for the event. This is not new when school shootings or other major crimes happen people look for someone to blame besides the person.
If you’ve been following Felicia Day, creator and star of The Guild, and have been wondering what the mystery project is, then wonder no more. Day has just been announced that she will be starring in a six-part web series based on the best-selling RPG game Dragon Age: Origins. Dragon Age fans rejoice!
"Dragon Age: Origins is one monster of a RPG taking as much as eighty hours to complete if you do everything the game has to offer. The game was released on the 360, PS3, and the PC. One of the highlights of the PC version is the various mods that are available.
Welcome everyone to the first article of a three part series about the top mods for Dragon Age..."
The author takes two comments from a previous post about the serious lack of tenting in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakenings and puts them up to see which commenter is right and which is blowing smoke. Did Dragon Age: Origins - Awakenings actually have relationships? Sort of? Or did BioWare fall short in excluding them
Two swords that appear in Dragon Age: Origins are available to buy at auction until the end of this month. The weapons available are the Grey Warden Sword and the Darkspawn Great Sword each currently selling at $349 USD a peice.
"Influenced? Cliched erotic content? Ladies and gents, I think the gauntlet has now been thrown. Jan then tries to back out by adding,
"Dragon Age really was influenced by us and that's great, because it's a genre that doesn't have that many games and it's not like that serious a competition..."
But it's too late, Bartkowicz. You can't unthrow the gauntlet. GAUNTLET UNTHROWING IS NOT ALLOWED."
"The dreaded Archdemon has been slain and the advance of the darkspawn halted by a lone, heroic Grey Warden. The kingdom rejoices, but at least one question remains: what happened to Morrigan? The sorceress joined the Wardens cause, but it is said her true purpose was not revealed until the eve of the last battle. She vanished into the shadows, and while rumors claimed she crossed over the mountains into Orlais no trace of her path could be found. She was never heard from again... until now. N..."
"On top of the enticing deals on Xbox LIVE for Dragon Age: Origins DLC this week, Bioware is also releasing the latest add-on for the game in the form of The Golems of Amgarrak. The DLC is available now for the Xbox 360 and will be up later today for the PS3 on the Playstation Store."
"This week's Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week features the Dragon Age: Origins expansion pack, Awakening, on sale for 50% off it's normal price plus two DLC campaign on sale. There's also some Dragon Age related Avatar T-Shirts on sale. Xbox LIVE's Summer of Arcade continues for two more weeks which means two more weeks of downloadable content on sale."
EA announced today in a press release that they have formed a partnership with FUNimation Entertainment to release a Dragon Age anime, as part of FUNimation’s co-production initiative announced in November 2009.
Dragon Age has won over 30 critic’s awards so far and is the first title to be selected for the co-production initiative.
"A thrifty gamer is a happy gamer so we've scoured the Sunday ads to find the best video game deals for this week from local stores for the Playstation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, and PC for the week of May 23, 2010."
"Red Dead Redemption wannabe owners should keep an eye out on their local Toys R Us this Tuesday as they will have a $25 Gift Card available with purchase of the game. However, the deal is time limited and you have to be a Rewards R Us member. K-Mart and Amazon also are offering Gift Cards for this game."
Electronic Arts today officially announced a new DLC, called the Darkspawn Chronicles, for their PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 RPG, Dragon Age: Origins.
"The PSP gets the bulk of the new games in this week's Playstation Store update while the bulk of the quality PS3 additions are on the DLC side. Take a journey into the mystery of "The Taxidermist" for Heavy Rain, partake in some feasting with Dragon Age: Origins, or hop on to Ryo's forklift for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. And don't forget to check out the thirteen new songs from Jimi Hendrix for Rock Band."
"Dragon Age contains 742,000 words of dialogue, and 202,000 words of non-conversational text that were translated into eight languages besides English – Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Four of those other languages have their own voiceover, whereas the other four subtitle the English VO."
Through February 27th Best Buy and BestBuy.com is once again discounted several popular games to $39.99. With free shipping, some of the games are at the best available price since Christmas. Games eligible including Left 4 Dead 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Army of Two: 40th Day, Call of Duty 4 Game of The Year Edition and Guitar Hero 5. Also available Divinity II: Ego Draconis for $30.
"Canadian developer BioWare has long been known for its ability to weave deeply designed and thoroughly exciting personalities into the plots and universes it creates for its acclaimed RPGs. The new Awakening expansion project, which will be released to store shelves and be made available as downloadable content (DLC) on March 16, seems set to continue this trend."
For Reward Zone Members (membership is free and you can sign up on the website), Best Buy is offering $5 to $20 printable coupons on select video games for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Games eligible for 2/15 through 2/28 discounts include Brutal Legend, Tekken 6, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and may more. Please note that printable coupons only work in Best Buy store and not online.
"Set after the events of Dragon Age: Origins in the land of Amaranthine, players will take on the role of a Grey Warden trying to rebuild the order of legendary warriors. Along with this monumental task, players will have to discover new secrets of the Darkspawn menace as well as face off against deadly new threats such as the Inferno Golem, Spectral Dragon and a mysterious foe that calls itself the "Architect." Fortunately, Awakening raises the level cap of the game, and provides new abilitie..."
Through January 2nd Best Buy and BestBuy.com discounted several top-selling games to $39.99 including New Super Mario Bros, Assassin's Creed II, Batman: Arkham Assylum, Left 4 Dead 2 and others.
Amazon has posted their list of "Cyber Monday" deals and while many of them are repeats from Black Friday, there's still plenty of deals to be had. Some of the games on sale include Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Need For Speed: Shift, The Beatles: Rock Band, WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2010, a great deal on Tekken 6 and discounts on every recent Guitar Hero title.
"Not wanting to be left out after the recent success stories concerning Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II, Electronic Arts (EA) has today announced that it has set a new record for site traffic at DragonAge.com and new user registrations at its social networking site, Social.Bioware.com. With the release of Dragon Age: Origins, the BioWare community has grown to a record five million registered users, propelled by outstanding word-of-mouth buzz among..."
"BioWare’s latest videogame release, their first as an Electronic Arts studio and their debut on PlayStation 3, has reported an impressive attach rate for its’ Downloadable Content (DLC) within its’ first week of availability. Dragon Age: Origins has been well received by both critics and consumers, and it seems as though many players are hungry for more."
"Dragon Age: Origins is the biggest singleplayer role-playing game release of the season. It's also the only big-budget singleplayer RPG coming out this season. The RPG is one of the oldest genres in gaming, but big releases are becoming rarer each year.
We examine the state of the big-budget single-player RPG with a group of RPG developers. Each comes from a different facet of the market. Is it dying? Are the tastes of RPG gamers changing? What role do MMOs, consoles, and handhelds play? I..."
New releases for the week. Icrontic's inimitable CB Droege covers Lego Rock Band, Battle of Giants: Dragons, Band Hero, and the spotlight of the week Dragon Age: Origins.
This week we have a couple of new rhythm/music games coming out, Sony releases their new 250GB PS3 Slim bundle, and PSP owners finally get their hands on the new Jak and Daxter title.
Oh, and Dragon Age: Origins (PC/360) hits the shelves this week. RPG fans: if you haven't already checked it out, you should.
Complete list of games scheduled to be released this week (still subject to change):
"Last of Your Line 10
Completed the Human Noble origin story
Corrupted 10
Completed the Dalish Elf origin story
Conscripted 10
Completed the City Elf origin story
Harrowed 10
Completed the Magi origin story
Casteless 10
Completed the Dwarf Commoner origin story
Kinslayer 10
Completed the Dwarf Noble origin story"
"Ray Muzyka: If you’re going to say Dragon Age is one of the best games you’ve ever played… I’ve finished Dragon Age. I’ve played it extensively on PC and console. I can really stand behind it. I’ve played it a lot. On one of the play-throughs I spent 120 hours. Two hours a day for 60 days, 90 percent of the game, according to the telemetry. And I loved it. Every minute of it. I couldn’t wait to come home. After about ten hours of gameplay, every day I was talking about coming home and I playe..."
"“That’s what we are exploring right now. There’s no automated thing where you drop it into a subdirectory and – boom – it’s in the console version. But we could maybe take the crème de la crème – like bring over a couple of great modules [from PC to console] every month or two.”"
Yesterday, a few online retailers changed the release date for Dragon Age: Origins on their sites, pointing to a delay. Well, its now official- Bioware confirms that the game will be released during the first week of November for the 360 and PC, with the PS3 version following soon after.
Looks like we'll have to wait a bit more before we get to hump either a man, woman or a donkey.
Do we all remember last year's Mass Effect controversy? While BioWare believe that entire debacle was completely over-blown, they do think that sex scenes in games can help reflect real human relationships in a "sophisticated mature experience".
Go to the source for the full article.
"Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space
Windows Vista Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows Vista with SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or gre..."
The boxed/retail PC versions of Dragon Age: Origin will be using a simple CD check rather than the secuROM check which requires online verification. This should make fans happier since the process is much more simple.
Even though Dragon Age: Origin will not be reaching consoles or PC until October or even later, Bioware is making sure us gamers don't forget about it. They have revealed that each character will have their own specific start story and the choices you make during this story will affect the rest of the game. To me this sounds fantastic, as most RPG games no matter what character you choose still start you off on the same story, so this makes a difference.
Speaking to Eurogamer Germany, Miles Holmes, lead designer of the upcoming DS RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhead from Bioware, has stated that the developer has expressed interest in the DS, seeing it as one of the ways that it could reinforce their franchises.
The franchises under consideration? Mass Effect, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age.
This is similar to sentiments also expressed by fellow team member Mark Darrah, who has said that BioWare is looking into PSP and Wii developm...
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