EA's chief operating officer John Schappert had a fireside chat with Alex Pham of the Los Angeles Times about "mythbusting" at GDC today. Unfortunately, not many myths were actually busted -- other than the one we heard that
everything at GDC is exciting! But Schappert did speak briefly about DLC, talking up the fact that
Dragon Age: Origins DLC has made
over a million dollars (and that was by November's count!). He went on to explain that digital distribution, in all its forms, earned $575 million dollars for EA last year, and the publisher placed its expectations for this year at $750 million.
"The fastest growing area of digital distribution -- and that includes subscriptions and microtransactions -- is downloadable content," Schappert said. "It's the extension of your current game through expansion packs and downloadable content."
GDC: EA's Schappert touts DLC as most profitable form of digital distribution originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EA's chief operating officer John Schappert had a fireside chat with Alex Pham of the Los Angeles Times about "mythbusting" at GDC today. Unfortunately, not many myths were actually busted -- other than the one we heard that
everything at GDC is exciting! But Schappert did speak briefly about DLC, talking up the fact that
Dragon Age: Origins DLC has made
over a million dollars (and that was by November's count!). He went on to explain that digital distribution, in all its forms, earned $575 million dollars for EA last year, and the publisher placed its expectations for this year at $750 million.
"The fastest growing area of digital distribution -- and that includes subscriptions and microtransactions -- is downloadable content," Schappert said. "It's the extension of your current game through expansion packs and downloadable content."
GDC: EA's Schappert touts DLC as most profitable form of digital distribution originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Game Informer's latest "TidBits" column features a a glorious list of "inside baseball" stats from
Dragon Age: Origins. Some of the numbers are simply cute, while others are positively frightening: "QA analyst Bruce Venne played 1,957.55 hours of
Dragon Age PC in 5,352 games." Consequently, "The Bruce" was awarded to staff that played more than Venne in any given month -- the honor was bestowed only once.
While the list is mostly packed with numbers, there are some notable non-numerical did-you-knows, like the staff's affectionate nickname for the Ogre, "Fluffy," and, unsurprisingly, the revelation that one of the
BioWare crew makes chain mail "from scratch."
Check out the full list of
Dragon Age tidbits on
Game Informer.
Dragon Age 'TidBits' drop stats like a Fluffy punch originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wow, Macs as a gaming platform is totally en vogue this week. First, we've got
Valve teasing something Apple related. Now, Direct2Drive is holding a
sale on all its Mac games ... you know, all five of them. Kidding, there's way more than five. Some big ones in there too, like
Dragon Age: Origins, offered at 50 percent off ($33). Other highlights include:
- Sims 3 - $25
- Prince of Persia (the latest one) - $25
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - $15
- World of Goo - $10
The sale lasts one week, until March 11, 2010, at 10AM Pacific. Looks like Direct2Drive wants to get one good sales push in before
Steam allegedly comes to Mac.
Mac games on sale at Direct2Drive until March 11 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You know how in
Gremlins 2, the Gremlins all break into a genetics lab, and they eat all of the weird gene goop and it gives them superpowers like bat wings or vegetable bodies? And remember how one of them drinks like a brain hormone and becomes
Brain Gremlin and gets played by Tony Randall? That's kind of what's happening to the Darkspawn in the
Dragon Age Origins: Awakening expansion, according to this new trailer.
Of course, we don't know what kind of brain goop they ate -- and they definitely don't sound like Tony Randall -- but they're all called The Disciples and are all smart and talkative now. And evil. As you can see in the various screenshots below, they've got a face only a Gremlin could love. And honestly, while you might play the expansion on March 16 "thinking you know of our kind, human," you're wrong. All they're looking for are things like the Geneva Convention, chamber music, Susan Sontag. That's right: They just want to be civilized.
Dragon Age Origins: Awakening trailer introduces The Disciples originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you're anything like us, you simply weren't impressed enough by the already overabundant amount of content available in
Dragon Age: Origins. No sir! You wanted -- nay! --
demanded more content. Luckily for you, you immovable
demander, EA is offering a deal in
its online store for the first
Dragon Age expansion where pre-orders of the new content can snag the original game on PC for 40 percent off its normal $50 asking price (now just under $30).
That means you could get both
Awakening and the game it's based on for a combined $70 -- just $10 more than the Game of the Year edition that's sure to come out in a year's time! It's like an early reward for being hesitant ... almost like you paused the action and arranged the tactics ahead of time. Is there something we should know?
Hmmm?
Pre-order Dragon Age expansion on PC, get Origins 40% off originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It looks like
Dragon Age fans hoping to delve further into its fantasy realm will have to wait a little bit longer. IDW Publishing editor-in-chief Chris Rydall tells
Big Download that the
planned March release of its
Dragon Age comic has been pushed to April. Furthermore, the second issue will release in June.
The comic was announced last year, and is slated to feature a story written by
Orson Scott Card. The plot itself focuses around a band of rogue mages that "will defy the rules of the Templars and change the course of the world forever." Presumably, it will also feature
lots of sex.
Dragon Age comic delayed to April originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By way of G4 and IGN comes this handful of
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening videos, found after the break. In the first, meet dwarven legionnaire Sigrun, tasked with returning to the old fortress of
Kal'hirol. There's talking Darkspawn, those merry band of adventurers known as the "Legion of the Dead," and even a cameo from our old friend Oghren.
The additional two videos are simply B-roll, but that means
gameplay footage. You'll get a look at some of the new characters in action and even some vistas of the new environments. We get it, it's not much, but you've got less than a month until this old-school expansion pack (remember those?) slays its way to retailers.
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Dragon Age Awakening videos: meet Sigrun, ogle B-roll originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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BioWare revealed one of the new venues being added for the
Dragon Age: Origins expansion
Awakening. Kal'hirol was once a dwarven keep, a center of learning and culture for dwarf society. At some point, however, the dwarves were driven out.
BioWare won't say what horror resulted in "the fortress's elite one day [showing] up at Orzammar's great doors, exhausted and in despair over the loss of their home," but we have a theory: a Subway opened up next door, and the dwarves couldn't stand its constant weird baking-bread smell. Either that or some kind of monsters. You can scour our new gallery for any evidence of $5 footlongs.
Kal'hirol: Explore this mysterious dwarven fortress in Dragon Age: Awakening originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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BioWare has posted a world update for its upcoming Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening expansion, and reveals the setting of Kal'Hirol, a once prosperous Dwarven keep that mysteriously fell to ruin. Eleven images of the fortress are on the jump.
Here's the story, from the world update:
The dwarven fortress of Kal'Hirol was long known as a center of learning for the smith caste. Its workshops are where Paragon Hirol conceived his famous improvements to golem resilience and power, and where Hirol's favorite student developed a method for storing refined lyrium that is still used today. These breakthroughs brought Kal'Hirol great prosperity; its passageway are said to have glittered with gold and silver. But the fall of Kal'Hirol is shrouded in mystery. All that is known is that the fortress's elite one day showed up at Orzammar's great doors, exhausted and in despair over the loss of their home.
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening releases March 16 for all platforms worldwide.
Dragon Age: Origins - World Update [BioWare]
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