Posts Tagged ‘BioWare’

I have just read a blog lamenting the death of western RPGs. It was posted on Kotaku, so you may have read it too. Here is my counter-argument, as I generally disagree with Joel Haddock’s points.

EA seemed to inadvertently confirm the existence of Dragon Age 2 recently, leading us to ask: why should we care? Do we even want more swords-and-sorcery nonsense? Is this a good thing at all?

When a game developer makes a few games for one platform and not another it will soon become associated with that platform, and should it subsequently turn its talents to multi-platform development, there will be fanboy-hell to pay. It’s like stabbing your brother in the heart with a big knife, only worse. Here are the five worst brother-stabbers of all time…

We toyed with the idea of writing some fake April Fool’s news stories today, but realised that once we got passed the funny headlines, we’d just be writing unfunny lies and the whole idea was pretty trite anyway. But we liked our headlines, so we compiled them together for presentation here. Remember, NONE of these is a real story…

On the back of the news that Valve has employed three former key staff members from Uncharted developer Naughty Dog, and inspired by games industry analyst Michael Pachter’s comments about it being a mistake for companies not to develop for the PS3, here’s the five games at the top of our ‘please make this for the PS3’ list…

I’ve just spent a long weekend playing Mass Effect 2

Some clever PC-fiddling types in Poland have dug around inside the source code of the PC version of Mass Effect 2 and discovered the following lines of code…

EA has announced a Flash based prequel to upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins available online very soon. Dragon Age Journeys: The Deep Road has been developed by EA 2D in conjunction with BioWare and will be made available ahead of the full game’s release next month. This will likely be the first in a series of Flash spin-offs for EA following in the footsteps of successful browser fair like Mirror’s Edge 2D.

We’re not trying to put you off watching it or anything, but in a shock move, BioWare has released a trailer for Dragon Age: Origins with no exposed female chest area in it at all

Bioware’s Dr

The current issue of Play features an interview with BioWare CEO Dr Ray Muzyka, in which he talks about Mass Effect, Dragon Age and how much he loves the PS3