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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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Bioware have released the first Dragon Age Origins trailer. Its only a short one, but it already has the Internet buzzing with anticipation for its new RPG title. CVG had the following to say about the trailer…

The trailer runs for less than a minute, but every moment has impressed us. Fans of the high fantasy seen in Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights might be disappointed, as it feels more Lord of the Rings than Dungeons and Dragons. It’s brutal, bloody and far darker than we could ever have imagined.

Bioware launched its website for its upcoming RPG title Dragon Age the apparent ’spiritual successor’ to the Baldur’s Gate games, which has been renamed Dragon Age Origins. They have also interestingly been asking for ‘World Builders’ or ‘modders’ to sign up for a newsletter (which you can do here). However they wont reveal anymore about it because they arent allowed to.

”We have epic news for you, but our cruel masters have forbidden us from speaking on pain of death.”

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There’s some good news for the UK visitors of Mass Effect X: Your local Argos branch is now offering the full version of Mass Effect - for the Xbox 360 - for just a meagre £9.99! That’s an incredible price considering Argos love to charge you somewhere in the region of £40 for most games!

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In a recent interview with CVG Bioware co-CEO Ray Muzyka has been talking about his views on combating piracy.

Making players want and “believe” in your games is the most sure-fire method to prevent them pirating it.

We’re doing a lot of post-release downloadable content on all of our PC titles going forward. We think it’s a good thing to encourage players to make them want to buy a PC title.

That’s ultimately the best, most successful path to prevent piracy - to have players that want your games, want to believe in them and think they’re high-quality and realize they’re going to get a lot of value out of them as platforms for long time afterwards.

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