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Dragon Age: Origins Ogres Are Not Loveable
The ogre depicted in this new bath of screens for BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins is not cuddly, nor does it have layers, like onions. I’d say it’s an accurate assumption to say that they do not fall in love with lady ogres voiced by Cameron Diaz, or befriend talking donkeys or cats with Spanish accents.…
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UncategorizedDon’t Copy That Floppy: The Next Generation
MC Double Def DP’s 1992 hit “Don’t Copy That Floppy” is getting a modern-day update, once again unleashing the industry’s number one weapon against software piracy – rap music. Kids, if you pirate software, your mother will be dragged into the street and beaten by the police. At least that seems to be the message…
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BioWare: Sometimes Sex Makes Sense
A blast for the not-too-distant past today, as BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk revisits the Mass Effect sex scene controversy, explaining that sometimes sex just makes sense. CVG interviewed Zeschuk recently, touching on the subject of the Mass Effect sex scene, a subject that drove the uninformed media wild around the time of the game’s initial…
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The Witcher Patch Removes DRM, Adds Adventure
Patch 1.5 for CD Projekt Red‘s award-winning PC roleplaying game The Witcher is now available, removing the pesky digital rights management while adding five new player-created adventures to the game. Those of you pondering removing The Witcher install from your PC in order to free up space might want to hold off a little bit…
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Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Freedom Dated
Turbine has selected an early August date for the release of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, the update that switches the massively multiplayer D&D game to a free-to-play business model. Early August brings massive changes to Dungeons & Dragons Online, with a new class, new dungeons, and a new free-to-play, micro-transaction-based financial model that…
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Battlefield 1943 Establishes Beachhead
Battlefield 1943 is available today for purchase and play on Xbox Live Arcade, and the quote-laden launch trailer is here to compel you. This is the UK launch trailer for DICE’s big thing in a small package Battlefield release, but luckily for those of us in the U.S. they included a quote that lists the…
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EA Re-NERFs The Wii
Packaging a video game with a NERF gun worked so well the first time that EA’s doing it again, adding secret decoder functions to the arsenal in NERF 2: “N-Strike” Elite for the Nintendo Wii. NERF 2 is being developed partially in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the NERF brand, and perhaps mostly due…
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