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BioWare Releases Dragon Age Campaign, Cutscene Toolset

11:30AM Owen Good | Not even a week after its release does Dragon Age: Origins put out its official Toolset for download, allowing PC users to assemble battles, campaigns, and lip-synched cut scenes to share with the game’s community. More »
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PC Version Of Dragon Age Patched, Explained

1:00PM Owen Good | The PC version of Dragon Age: Origins got a 1.01 patch not 72 hours after release; lead designer Mike Laidlaw jumped onto BioWare’s forums to explain its necessity. More »
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And The Next Star Wars: The Old Republic Class Reveal Is…

3:20AM Mike Fahey | Do you idolise the grandest Moff of them all, or are you more of a fan of Zam Wessel, the shape-shifting assassin from episode 2? Either way, the Imperial Agent class is for you. More »
Media

Morning! Here’s Some New New Mass Effect 2 Screenshots

12:20AM Luke Plunkett | To go with the preview and videos we threw up overnight, here are some new screenshots for Mass Effect 2, showing some good guys, some bad guys and an old friend. More »
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Fresh Mass Effect 2 Trailers Show The Galaxy’s Boozier Side

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | In between all the developer blah blah blah, you’ll see in this first clip a bunch of new footage for Mass Effect 2, primarily focusing on the game’s enemies, both new and old. More »
Hands On

Mass Effect 2 Impressions: Looks Better, Shoots Differently

8:00PM Stephen Totilo | Freeze-bullets. Framerates. Interactive cut-scenes. Even old friends from other Mass Effect games (yes, plural). These are some of the things, new or improved, that I recently saw in Mass Effect 2. More »
Features

Bioware: What We’ve Learned From Bethesda, And What Makes Us Unique

2:00PM David Wildgoose | The paths of Bioware and Bethesda have followed a similar trajectory. From PC specialists to huge recent success on console, the two studios represent the top tier of western RPG development. I asked Bioware’s Greg Zeschuk to identify the unique strengths of both Bioware and Bethesda. More »
Culture

Old News ‘96: BioWare Started For $US100,000

10:00AM Stephen Totilo | Before they were a part of Electronic Arts and bringing Dragon Age: Origins to the masses, BioWare was small and scrappy. And one of their founders walked around the office barefoot. More »
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Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition Includes DVD, Book, Comic

12:30AM Brian Crecente | Electronic Arts plans to ship a “limited quantity” of Mass Effect 2 Collectors’ Editions when the space role-playing game hits the PC and Xbox 360 in late January. More »
Hands On

Dragon Age: Origins — PlayStation 3 Versus PC

9:20AM Mike Fahey | On Tuesday we posted our review of Dragon Age: Origins for the PlayStation 3. Now I’ve moved on to the PC version of the game, and the difference is night and day. More »