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Dragon Age ‘TidBits’ drop stats like a Fluffy punch

March 9th, 2010 No comments
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.

JoystiqDragon 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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Dragon Age Origins: Awakening trailer introduces The Disciples

March 4th, 2010 No comments
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.

JoystiqDragon 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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Pre-order Dragon Age expansion on PC, get Origins 40% off

February 26th, 2010 No comments
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?

JoystiqPre-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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Dragon Age comic delayed to April

February 23rd, 2010 No comments
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.

JoystiqDragon 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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Dragon Age Awakening videos: meet Sigrun, ogle B-roll

February 19th, 2010 No comments
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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JoystiqDragon 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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Dragon Age: Origins Awakening on PS3 download-only in Europe

February 15th, 2010 No comments
We usually think we're too smart for FAQs, preferring the sort of random, only moderately relevant questions that no one ever asks. But the FAQ for Dragon Age: Origins Awakening does provide some pretty useful insight. For instance, we learned that the expansion won't appear on disc for PS3 owners living in Europe. It seems like an odd decision to make, but perhaps you European PS3 fans can enlighten us. Do you guys just hate discs without us knowing it? If so, why did you let us keep buying you all those discs for Christmas without saying anything?

Less perplexingly, we saw that lovably grouchy dwarf Oghren plays a "large role" in the expansion, which is great news for all thinking people.

JoystiqDragon Age: Origins Awakening on PS3 download-only in Europe originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dragon Age Awakening: now with creepy Children!

February 5th, 2010 No comments
Felt like your copy of Dragon Age: Origins was missing something, eh? Say, maybe, slugs with demonically mutated children's faces? Perfect -- we've got just the trailer for you today, care of upcoming DA:O expansion Awakening, full of creepy-crawly things called "The Children."

There's not much in the way of an explanation of exactly what or why they are, but there are some pretty awful birth pods full of (presumably) amniotic fluid -- well, y'know, evil amniotic fluid (they're bad guys, after all). Hopefully the Children aren't working in concert with that terrifying blue dragon we saw last week. Man, that'd be just the worst! Get fully creeped out by the trailer after the break.

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JoystiqDragon Age Awakening: now with creepy Children! originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Meet Anders, your new party member in Dragon Age ‘Awakening’ expansion

February 2nd, 2010 No comments
In the run-up to the expansion's March 16 date with store shelves, BioWare has begun to make formal introductions of the new characters who'll be joining your Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening quest. First up: Anders, a Chantry mage and ... "born troublemaker." In fact, BioWare makes him sound more like Han Solo than a robed magic user, what with his lust for "freedom, a good meal and a pretty girl on his arm."

We'd like to point out that there is not a single screenshot in the gallery below in which Anders doesn't have his arms raised to some degree.

JoystiqMeet Anders, your new party member in Dragon Age 'Awakening' expansion originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dragon Age: Origins ‘Awakening’ DLC has a giant blue dragon

January 30th, 2010 No comments
Alright, alright, you kind of already knew about the giant blue dragon in the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins 'Awakening' expansion pack, but you hadn't seen her (yes, her) in all her rage-filled majesty, scaring the crap out of those venturing into Blackmarsh. Between her and Skeletor, we're getting pretty psyched for March's DA:O content infusion. Sure, there's that other BioWare RPG that we're obsessively playing for now, but how long will that last before we feel the urge to venture back into the fantasy realm? We're guessing about two months. And hey, if nothing else, it'll give us something to talk about at PAX East during the Joystiq / Blueberry Muffintops Breakfast.


JoystiqDragon Age: Origins 'Awakening' DLC has a giant blue dragon originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BioWare says Dragon Age 2 to look ’super hot’

January 29th, 2010 No comments
Dragon Age: Origins presents strong evidence that great games can overcome gawd-awful graphics, but BioWare isn't about to test that theory -- and the limits of our forgiveness -- again in the sequel. "I think one of the key things we're working on in Dragon Age 2 is the technology," BioWare VP Greg Zeschuk recently told Joystiq. "I can confirm that we're doing a lot of work on the Dragon Age engine, and doing a lot of stuff to pump it -- to make it visually super hot."

Now, to clarify, frisky rogue foursomes and lesbian alien sex are measured on different "super hot" scales, as Zeschuk conceded, "Dragon Age is, in the structural sense, a fundamentally different game than Mass Effect ... You have to make different technical considerations." Certainly, with Dragon Age: Origins, those considerations were designed to benefit the superior PC version.

Still, there's hope for a console sequel makeover, since, in Zeschuk's words, the process of iteration allows a developer to "get to a much higher level." "I think the overall visual style we're going to continue to evolve in Dragon Age," Zeschuk added. "People are going to see some cool ... I can't really say too much, but I think Dragon Age as a world is interesting. It's a timeline, and you can go anywhere." Go anywhere, huh? So, like the future Ferelden, where a race of sexy blue aliens has been possessed by horny desire demons? Super hot.

JoystiqBioWare says Dragon Age 2 to look 'super hot' originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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