Mass Effect

After many months of speculation and rumours the not so secret Star Wars MMO that LucasArts and Bioware have been working on has been revealed. The story-driven massively multiplayer online PC game is set in the timeframe of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic franchise.

For a long time, we’ve wanted to return to the franchise in a grand way, and we felt that the best setting for it was an online world that would allow millions of people to participate in the experience together. We knew that the developer capable of working with us to deliver an engrossing story with a fully-realized online world was BioWare.

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Finally the news id been waiting for (besides Mass Effect 2 news). Biowares upcoming fantasy role-playing franchise Dragon Age will be making its way to consoles. Been hoping the rumours were true for some time as its looking like an excellent title and id stopped buying and playing PC titles some time ago (after many technical issues) and now i dont have to totally miss out.

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EA and / or BioWare have released a batch of new shots for its upcoming PC action-RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Can view those pictures and comment on our forums here and can also register for free here.

According to Variety’s Cut Scene blog the rights to Biowares award winning sci-fi RPG series have been snapped up by ex-Marvel Movie boss Avi Arad, who’s since left the Comic giant to set-up his own production company.

Good news if you consider he’s contributed in bringing Spider-Man, X-Men and Iron Man to the big screen, bad if you remember Elektra, Ghost Rider and so-so Spider-Man 3.

Arad is also working on getting a big-screen adaptation of Capcom’s Lost Planet to the big screen.

It’s all one big no-brainer then. Mass Effect’s got a large game community following, rich cast of protagonists, baddies and love interests, plus the story’s been fleshed out enough to fill two books (not that we’ve read them, cough).

Arad is now said to be looking for writers, a director and a studio to attach to the Mass Effect movie. Limbo for a few years it is then…

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Bioware will be showing its upcoming PC RPG Dragon Age: Origins to the public for the first time at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana, the GC Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany and the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington. They will be allowing public demos, which are expected to be the same ones that the press saw at E3 last month.

Coming from behind closed doors and onto the show floor, BioWare is thrilled to reveal the heart-pounding demo that wowed international media at E3 2008 to the eager fans at Gen Con Indy, August 14-17, 2008, at the Indianapolis Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

This marks the very first public appearance of Dragon Age: Origins ever, with fans able to get a first-hand look at some of the exciting combat, devastating magic and credible digital actors that make up this epic adventure.

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Bioware co-founder Greg Zeschuk has recently been speaking about consoles seeing something of the Dragon Age franchise at some point

Any time we undertake something we have a goal of creating franchises. PC for now is what we’re focusing on, but there is a console future for the franchise.

One thing we’re focused on, as folks probably have seen in regards to ‘Mass Effect’ on the PC, is whenever we do a platform choice, we’re very definitive and very specific.

We don’t splash it across all the platforms. Like in the case with ‘Mass’ PC we worked really hard to make it even better than the console version. The PC gives us more tools to do that with. That’s the approach we’re taking with ‘Dragon Age’ and other games at BioWare..

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In the latest Bioware insider newsletter they are showing a new trailer as well as new screenshots for upcoming RPG Dragon Age Origins. They have also released a podcast with Project Director Dan Tudge as he prepared to show off Dragon Age:Origins at the Entertainment Expo in L.A.

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I logged into my GMail inbox today to find an email waiting for me that had been sent from a gentleman by the name of Casey. Casey was kind enough to give me a heads-up about a new limited edition polyresin Command Shepard statue that is shipping right now.

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G4 presenter Adam Sessler interviewed BioWare President Dr. Greg Zeschuk at E3 and took a look at Biowares upcoming RPG Dragon Age Origins.

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Bioware have recently gave away the first details about the gameplay features and some of the systems in its upcoming RPG Dragon Age Origins. Surely going to put some smiles on the Baldurs Gate fans faces…

* Epic Party-Based Combat - Dragon Age: Origins will introduce an innovative, scalable combat system, as players face large-scale battles and use their party’s special abilities to destroy hoardes of enemies and massive creatures.

* Powerful Magic - Raining down awesome destruction on enemies is even more compelling as players apply “spell combos,” a way of combining together different spells to create emergent unique effects.

* Deep Customization - Players will develop their characters and gain powerful special abilities (spells, talents and skills) and discover ever-increasing weapons of destruction.

* Your Story, Your Way - With its emotionally compelling story, players choose with whom they wish to forge alliances or crush under their mighty fist, redefining the world with the choices they make and how they wield their power.

* Origin Stories - Players will select and play a unique prelude that provides the lens through which the player sees the world and how the world sees the player. The player’s choice of Origin will determine who they are and where they begin the adventure, as they play through a customized story opening that profoundly impacts the course of every adventure.

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