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So the latest piece of official BioWare fiction is a little rough around the edges. Let's say you want to write your own Mass Effect story. Need some help? BioWare themselves are here to help. More »
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I have a lot of fun ripping on Dragon Age II. BioWare's 2011 follow-up to their epic and beloved Dragon Age: Origins disappointed and frustrated me in many, many ways. More »
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The full trailer for the Dragon Age anime we spoke about earlier this month has been making the rounds. it's 106 seconds easily as enjoyable as any 106 seconds I spent trudging through BioWare's sloppy sequel. More »
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Dragons, they're so hot right now. And not just because they're fire-breathing lizards, either. Skyrim's winning Game of the Year awards, racking up impressive online numbers even though it's single-player and possibly even impacting the economy. It's also singed people's memories of that other dragon-centric fantasy RPG that came out earlier this year. In the months after Dragon Age II came out, BioWare's co-founders have been supervising the finishing touches on Star Wars: The Old Republic. More »
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Role-playing game Dragon Age is getting an anime. The flick will roar into Japanese theaters across the country. More »
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This week on the PlayStation store, we've got new full-game downloads for Dragon Age II and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, as well as the PSN game Wanted Corp. Plenty of games get DLC content, including Batman: Arkham City, which gives purchasers all of the skins that were initially offered as various pre-order bonuses. (Including the Batman Beyond skin, which I believe makes you 45% more attractive while playing.) More »
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That's right, Dragon Age is going multiplayer. The role-playing franchise is, according to an insider, going beyond singleplayer for the first time, and warriors won't simply face off against each other in combat. More »
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This must be weird. Nerd starlet Felicia Day, who stars in not just a Dragon Age web series but some Dragon Age II DLC, sits down here to play...Dragon Age II. As herself. More »
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Dragon Age Redemption, the official live action web series by Felicia Day and friends, hits the halfway mark today with a release of the third of six episodes. In this installment, she's stabbing a guy who wants to help out. Pretty good episode, and, so far, my preferred way to get live-action interpretations of video games. More »
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The second installment of Felicia Day's Dragon Age: Redemption six-episode web series is live. I missed the first, but this one's solid. Fun characters. Reverent to the video game lore without being embarrassing. More »
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Matt Rhodes is an artist who has worked on two of BioWare's biggest games in recent years, namely Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2. More »
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At NYCC last weekend, BioWare was in attendance talking about the upcoming Dragon Age comic series, which will follow Alistair, Isabella, and Varric as they perform some sleuthing into Alistair's past. Well then, that's three of my favorite characters doing stuff that certainly sounds fun. I'd love to see how virginal Alistair and worldly Isabella get on in particular. More »
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Dark Horse's merchandise wing have put together two welcome, if unexpected pieces of Mass Effect and Dragon Age merchandise: decks of playing cards. More »
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Iris Ophelia's ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion More »
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While the production values are fine, the acting solid, and the writing passable, the first episode of Felicia Day's Dragon Age: Redemption web series still feels like a bunch of friends spending the weekend in the woods role-playing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5848613&view=rss&microfeed=true As first mentioned in 2010, Dragon Age is getting an animated CG feature. Today, MSNBC reported that it will be directed by Fumihiko Sori of Ping Pong fame. It'll be out in 2012 in Japan. [MSNBC] More »
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As I watched Felicia Day interact with a video game version of herself, I was struck by the degree of existential weirdness that was going on in front of me. What must it be like to come face to face with a pre-recorded, interactive version of yourself? I tried to imagine having a branching, BioWare-style conversation with my own video game doppelgänger and couldn't quite make the leap. Would I be aggressive? Kind? Flirty? Would I push my on-screen likeness around just to see what happened? More »
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Let's start with my love of the Dragon Age universe, as well as Dragon Age: Origins. Man, I loved that game. Okay, we've got that out of the way? Good. Because I've made no bones about the fact that I was profoundly disappointed with Dragon Age II. More »
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Ripped from the trailer for Dragon Age II's Mark of the Assassin downloadable content, two screenshots of a blood-splattered Felicia Day in action and a picture of a courtyard. Man, courtyards are so hot. More »
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On October 11, BioWare will release new DLC for Dragon Age II called Mark of the Assassin, which is interesting in that it features the talents (and face) of The Guild star Felicia Day. More »
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Who says cross-game promotions never work out? If you pre-order The Sims 3: Pets: Limited Edition on Xbox 360 or PlayStation, you'll get a dozen exclusive breeds of dogs, including a panda chow, skunk birman, and—in a Kotaku-exclusive reveal, because we're an important media outlet—a Mabari War Hound from Dragon Age. More »
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PAX Prime was a great place to catch some cosplay, and if you looked closely enough, find some sassy new friends to help keep you from blowing up the entire convention center in a fit of anger. More »
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This dog is an entrant in a character costume contest being run by the people at BioWare, makers of Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic and other video games that include terrific characters. The dog, however, is cosplaying as a Mabari from the Dragon Age games. More »
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Yesterday, I posted some screens from Cyanide Studio's upcoming PC strategy game A Game of Thrones: Genesis (one of those screens is above). Details about the game are few and far between, and the only video online is a gameplay-free teaser. At a casual glance, the game seemed cool enough—a Total War-style strategy game set in Westeros. Sounds neat! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5832276&view=rss&microfeed=true Electronic Arts has converted their EA2D studio, the developers behind social games such as Dragon Age Legends, Dragon Age Journeys, and Fancy Pants Adventures into BioWare San Francisco. The San Francisco branch will join BioWare's other locations in Montreal, Austin, Edmonton, Virginia, and Ireland. [Gamasutra] More »
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Valve's online juggernaut and EA's own upstart service Origin are having some problems of late. Problems continuing through to this week, with Dragon Age II—previously available on Steam—now being withdrawn from sale. More »
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Felicia Day prematurely answers the casting call for the Space Invaders movie on Google+. More »
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What was wrong with Dragon Age II, Dragon Age fans? Too many recycled environments? Not enough tactical variety? More »
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Dragon Age II was, for many, a bit of a disappointment. Too many recycled environments, too many cheap waves of bad guys to chop through. It was, you could argue, a bit of a rush job. More »
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Role-playing maestros BioWare, developers behind Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect and Dragon Age, are good with fantasy. They're good with science fiction. With anything else? Well, that's up for debate! More »
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I understand that role-playing video games owe their existence to role-playing tabletop games, and as a result, share many of their predecessor's customs and traditions. After all, if tabletop games need to simulate action via numeric values, then it was natural for the first video game RPGs to do the same. More »
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Leo Kei Angelos loves Dragon Age. But he doesn't have buckets of cash to squander on an expensive movie tribute. Nor does he have actress Felicia Day. He does have snow, though. Fake blood, too. More »
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Say what you will about BioWare's Dragon Age sequel, one thing that I appreciated was the way the game tried to forge its own art style instead of getting lost in a sea of fantasy cliches. More »
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Do you like comics about video games? I sure hope so, because there are a lot of new ones this week, and not many interesting new comics that aren't about games. More »
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It appears that a Bioware fan has been temporarily halted from playing his copy of Dragon Age II after copping a forum suspension. Which is weird since, you know, Dragon Age II is a singleplayer game. More »
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Dragon Age was an epic role-playing game. Sequels to those kind of things normally take years to be released (just ask Elder Scrolls fans!). So why did Dragon Age II come out less than 18 months after Dragon Age? More »
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Don't worry, elitist PC owners: while the demo for Dragon Age II made the game look like a sloppy console port, you can already download a patch that will have it looking more to your liking. More »
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I don't think I've ever been happier to type four words in my life. Famously referenced in Dragon Age: Origins' original ESRB ratings certificate, the demon protuberances were believed absent from its sequel. We were wrong! More »
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Felicia Day, of Buffy and The Guild fame, has not only written but will star in a new live-action series based on BioWare's fantasy RPG franchise Dragon Age. More »
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These pictures are the work of artist Jason Martin. If you've played Mass Effect 2, Force Unleashed II, DC Universe Online or taken an interest in the upcoming Batman game, you may recognise his amazing work. More »
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