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Yes, your choices in past Dragon Age games don't matter as much as they could in The Veilguard, but BioWare wants you to know "that doesn't mean they're gone"Dec 7, 2024 - VG247A lot of Dragon Age fans were left disappointed at how few decisions from previous games matter in The Veilguard, but BioWare has promised they're still important. Read more Dragon Age: The Veilguard fans that were left wanting should be excited that the series' original designer's next game just got a release dateDec 6, 2024 - VG247Dragon Age: The Veilguard hasn't been a surefire hit with everyone, but luckily the series' original designer has a new game on the way, and it's out soon. Read more "We've been doing elven gods and elves and the blight for four games now" Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs discuss where the series could go story-wise in the futureDec 5, 2024 - VG247Yesterday was Dragon Age day, and fittingly, some of the top devs behind Dragon Age: The Veilguard used it as a chance to chat a bit about where the series could go in the future, now most people have seen the end of this latest adventure that involved Rook, Solas, and everyone else. Read more Dragon Age: Origins lead writer says Shale was saved partly by his real-life burning hatred for pigeon poop: 'I wrote like the angry, angry wind'Nov 26, 2024 - PC GamerOne of my favourite companions in Dragon Age: Origins is Shale. She's a deadpan, dry-voiced golem with a hatred for pigeons that does credit to her dwarven, grudge-bearing heritage. She was also a day-one DLC character but, while discussing her, series creator and lead writer David Gaider reveals that was mostly due to a lack of time, and the fact she was downright impossible to write... Read more.Akon's 'Smack That' and Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins have a shared history, according to her writer, who cast her off a 'beat poet rendition' of the songNov 20, 2024 - PC GamerMorrigan will always be an icon—as we've already discussed on this site, she's one of the all-time companion greats, pretty much stealing the show in Dragon Age: Origins. A razor-sharp wit, a barbed tongue, and a deeper, sympathetic vulnerability. There's very much a reason why she keeps popping back up in sequels to play the hits... Read more.Not ready for Dragon Age: The Veilguard but struggling to import your world save states from the Keep into Inquisition? You're not the only one, and BioWare is trying to fix itNov 17, 2024 - VG247Dragon Age: Inquisition players currently aren't able to import their world states over from the Keep, but don't worry, BioWare is working on a fix. Read more GOG is launching a new preservation program, and it looks like good news for PC folks who love playing classics without having to mess aroundNov 13, 2024 - VG247GOG has announced it’s kicking off a new preservation program that’ll see it commit extra resources to making sure a selection of the kinda old to very old titles it offers run well across a variety of modern and future hardware. Read more The messy queer representation of Dragon Age: Origins was commendable for 2009—and I even miss some of its thornsNov 8, 2024 - PC GamerIt might sound like stating the obvious, but queer representation—in games particularly, for some reason—is a thorny subject. As I myself am starting to nudge into my early 30s (oh, god) I'm beginning to notice that the wants and needs of younger gamers aren't quite aligning with my own... Read more.The best Dragon Age: Origins modsNov 7, 2024 - PC GamerIf you want to go back to the original Dragon Age today, you'll need some help. Origins was made in the Eclipse engine, which had some long-standing bugs that never got patched and given there are "maybe 20 people left at BioWare" who understand how it works , aren't likely to ever be officially fixed. Unofficially, they've already been solved and all it takes is a dive into the PC Gaming wiki and Nexus Mods to sort them out... Read more.Dragon Age boss says a Legendary Edition-style remaster of the old games in the series is unlikely because there's 'maybe 20 people left at BioWare' who know how their engine worksNov 4, 2024 - PC GamerDragon Age: The Veilguard is a hit, but creative director John Epler recently said that BioWare currently has " no plans for downloadable expansions " to carry the story beyond its big finish. Sadly for fans who are new to the Dragon Age series, it's also very unlikely that the older games in the series will ever get a treatment similar to the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remasters... Read more.Every origin in Dragon Age: Origins, rankedNov 3, 2024 - PC GamerDragon Age: Origins had a great idea, and that idea was: origins. Bespoke prologues for each character archetype, they give you a personal introduction to the game that's completely different if you're an elven commoner living in a slum or a dwarven noble so privileged you can test the sharpness of your hammer on nearby peasants... Read more.Dragon Age: The Veilguard's release got you desperate for a DA legendary collection? BioWare says it'd be tougher to do than Mass Effect, but "never say never"Nov 1, 2024 - VG247One of the things that filled the ten year gap between Dragon Age: Inquisition and its recently released successor Dragon Age: The Veilguard was fans wondering aloud if BioWare would consider releasing a collection of the older games in the series, all nicely tweaked for modern hardware. Read more Great moments in PC gaming: Choosing your origin in Dragon Age OriginsJun 15, 2024 - PC GamerGreat moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories... Read more.Dragon Age: Origins deserves remaster with 'extra-realistic slimy nipple textures', says lead writerFeb 25, 2023 - PC Gamer"If we're on a kick re-mastering games from the aughts," David Gaider, lead writer of all three Dragon Age games, mused on Twitter, "what about Dragon Age Origins? Its graphics were behind the curve even at the time of release... can you imagine it with brand new PS5-era bells and whistles? 🥳".. Read more.Meet the actual therapist using Dragon Age to teach relationship skillsFeb 15, 2023 - PC GamerThe Dragon Age fandom is notoriously full of armchair psychologists. We love to shamelessly pick apart and project onto our faves—admittedly with mixed accuracy. But listening to Dragon Age: Origins get dissected by an actual practicing therapist makes even conversations with the most capricious party members sound like they finally have the subtitles for human interaction turned on... Read more.Netflix's Dragon Age: Absolution TV series starts December 9thNov 11, 2022 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWe’ve finally got a proper look at the upcoming fantasy animated series Dragon Age: Absolution, heading to Netflix on December 9th, thanks to a new trailer. The series is made up of six half-hour episodes following Miriam, an elven mercenary, and it’s set in Tevinter. That’s where the next Dragon Age game, Dreadwolf, will take place, too. Have a watch of the trailer below. Read more EA shutting down Mirror's Edge online services in JanuaryOct 18, 2022 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunA few more classics have made their way onto EA’s list of games they’re shutting down online services for, with Mirror’s Edge the most notable casualty for PC players. The shutdown will come into effect from January 19th, 2023, just overshooting the 13th anniversary of the game’s launch on PC. It’ll presumably affect the dystopian parkour game’s online leaderboards, and downloadable Ghosts of other players. Read more Most Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC is now free on PC through OriginJul 14, 2022 - VG247EA is doing away with BioWare Points, a currency available through the Origin Store used to purchase DLC for PC versions of Dragon Age and Mass Effect. Because of this, much of the previously released DLC only available through BioWare Points can now be acquired free of charge (via reddit.) This means that if you own Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 2, or Mass Effect 3 on Origin, you get the DLC for no charge (thanks, GamesRadar). Read more Nightingale is a "gaslamp fantasy" survival game from former Dragon Age devsDec 9, 2021 - PCGamesNInflexion, the newly-renamed studio headed up by former BioWare GM Aaryn Flynn, has revealed its first game: Nightingale. The devs bill it as a "shared-world survival crafting game set within a rich Victorian gaslamp fantasy setting" and, alongside the debut trailer, have revealed that it's due to hit early access in 2022. Nightingale sets you exploring a variety of biomes, including forests, swamps, and deserts, as you restore portals to move ever more deeply into the Fae realms. You can play alone or find a group to help you build the farms and estates you'll need to survive in a world filled with both magic and magical monstrosities. "From the beginning, we knew we wanted to build an intricate fantasy setting as rich and full of history and life as anything we've worked on in the past," Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn says in a press release. "The realms of Nightingale are vast and have many secrets to uncover, and we cannot wait for players to start discovering them." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dragon Age producer has been asking if players want an XCOM-style, turn-based Dragon Age Dragon Age: Origins is free on Origin until October 14th Loads of Xbox 360 games have received mysterious updates ahead of Xbox's 20th anniversaryNov 14, 2021 - VG247I don't know about you, but Xbox is feeling 20, too. Ahead of the company's planned anniversary stream tomorrow, Microsoft has issued a series of updates to some fan-favourite Xbox 360 games that may end up enhancing backwards compatibility for the titles. A lot of the titles are from Bethesda, so it makes sense that Xbox wants to shine a light on them – what's the point in acquiring a company for $7.5 billion if you can't show off the goods, after all? Per VGC, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fable Anniversary, Fable 3, Dead Space, Dead Space 3, Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age 2 have all been supplied with an update. Read more
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