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BuckGB
April 11, 2011

Unconfirmed: Dragon Age III in Development, Includes Multiplayer

CVG is reporting by way of the Official PlayStation Magazine that Dragon Age III is currently in production, and that it contains “an added multiplayer component”. File this one under “completely unsubstantiated”, of course: The rumor comes from the ‘Inside…

BuckGB
April 2, 2011

Game Over: The End of Dragon Age: Origins

Platform Nation has put together something of a retrospective for Dragon Age: Origins, though the article focuses entirely on the game’s “unforgettable” ending. Either way, that final march is complemented with something that has become standard in Hollywood epic movies:…

BuckGB
March 23, 2011

Clues About the Next Dragon Age

If you’ve spent a great deal of time with Dragon Age: Origins and its sequel, then you’ve probably already picked up on where we’ll most likely be headed in Dragon Age III. If not, though, you may want to have…

BuckGB
March 22, 2011

Are RPGs Evolving or Dying?

That’s the tough question posed by Game Rant in a new three-page editorial that points to the “streamlining” of modern day role-playing games like Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age II, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as a point of…

BuckGB
March 11, 2011

A BioWare Forum Ban Locks You Out of Their Games

Despite what you think of Dragon Age II and how passionate you are about its shortcomings, I’d have to advise you not to go over to BioWare’s forums and say anything in the heat of the moment. That’s because getting…

BuckGB
March 7, 2011

The Viking Myth

Invoking references to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dragon Age: Origins, World of Warcraft, and several other titles, the editors at Bits ‘n Bytes examine the history behind the viking civilization and how many such video games don’t portray them…

Brother None
March 1, 2011

Inon Zur Interview

Game Informer has an editorial-style interview with Inon Zur, composer of the soundtracks of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II, where he discusses several topics of his craft. Differences between Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II The first…

Brother None
February 22, 2011

Why Dragon Age Was More Memorable Than Mass Effect 2

IGN editorializes on why Dragon Age: Origins was more memorable than Mass Effect 2, though the opening statement is that DA:O is “better” than ME2, which isn’t really the same thing, but I digress. It’s a VS article, comparing several moments…

Brother None
February 15, 2011

The Very Important List of PC Games, Parts 1 and 2

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s crew has been putting together a list of the “greatest, most important PC games of all time”, rating their importanceness and doing short writeups. Included in part one are System Shock (importanceness: Quite High), Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines…

Brother None
February 15, 2011

The Art of Video Games

The Smitshonian American Art Museum is setting up an exhibit for video game art/history, wisely constructed over five eras so it won’t be crowded out by just recent games. Consumers even get to vote. It puts RPGs under the “adventure genre”…