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Bioware EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Dragon Age expansion 'Return to Ostagar' announced 26 The Dragon Age: Origins Twitter account doesn’t spread lies like your standard, filthy Elf commoner. Something “cool” was announced this afternoon relating to Bioware’s la... Dragon Age: Origins-related announcement coming soon? 24 Something Dragon Age: Origins-related is going down soon.One of the most recent tweets from the official Origins Twitter account is teasing that something “cool” is happening on the m... The lack of flesh in Origins was an 'artistic choice' 53 The oddest thing I’ve seen in the last few weeks -- other than the return of a special someone in another new game -- is the Dragon Age: Origins’ romance scene with Morrigan. Watching... Co-op may be a threat in future Mass Effect and DA titles 20 Bioware isn’t opposed to the idea of adding a cooperative element to later Dragon Age and Mass Effect games. In a recent interview, part lord and master of the RPG stronghold, Dr. Ray Muzyk... $1 million and counting: Dragon Age DLC selling well 40 Despite offering several boxed sets and a single pre-order edition of Dragon Age: Origins that all included most of the game’s day-one DLC, Bioware and EA still made a good bit of coin thro... Bioware talks 'sword porn' in latest Origins dev video 14 You can eradicate a Dark Spawn’s head with a flourish and mount an Ogre with crimson-coated steel in Dragon Age: Origins. But before that fun stuff can happen you must first enter into com... BioWare gets butthurt over story criticism 73 BioWare staff writer Patrick Weekes does not like to be a mocked. A fan recently created an "RPG cliche chart" to poke fun at what he believes is a predictable story structure in BioWare games. A... EA not behind Origins DLC storage chest feature 26 Snatching mad loot from Dark Spawn corpses and non-infected containers can be an issue when inventory space runs out in Dragon Age: Origins. When this happens, players have four options: (a) star... Introducing your Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition 46 Another BioWare game, another luxurious special edition for you to spend obscene amounts of money on. We're all getting somewhat tired of special editions here at Destructoid, but nevertheless, t... 30 Seconds to Mars declares 'war' on Dragon Age 42 While Marilyn Manson may have been the soundtrack for Dragon Age: Origin's early marketing, BioWare looked elsewhere when bringing the rock to the final game.  Electronic Arts has announced... Review: Dragon Age: Origins 222 What do you do when you stop making games for one of the biggest roleplaying franchises of all time? If you're BioWare, the answer is easy -- make your own roleplaying franchise and start again f... Dragon Age: Origins arrived in a box of straw 53 Seriously, a box of straw. I'm not sure if this is the best or worst marketing idea I've seen so far, but considering my carpet now has dirt and grit all over it after opening this package unawar... 'Exciting' Dragon Age: Origins PS3 announcement coming 25 As far as we know, the PS3 version of Dragon Age: Origins won’t have exclusive Challenge Room DLC starring the purple-clad trickster The Joker. But that could all change this mid-morning as... Maxim's 'girls of Dragon Age' gallery is faptastic 51 If boobs are involved, you can always count on Maxim to have the exclusive. As we gear up for BioWare's awesome looking RPG Dragon Age: Origins, the filthy apes have invited us to look at the wom... Amazon jumps aboard the Dragon Age preorder train 34 It's simply not enough that GameStop and Steam are offering preorder bonuses for Dragon Age: Origins, or that there is a standard edition, Collector's Edition and Digital Deluxe edition to choose... Creating Brad Nicholson in Dragon Age: Origins is easy 19 As planned, the Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator hit the Internet earlier yesterday afternoon. Made available so players could get a jump on the game instead of staring at a creation screen ... BioWare loves Jade Empire, would like to make more 41 Jade Empire was considered one of the few Xbox exclusives worth having the system for, but a sequel has never arrived for the martial arts action RPG. Despite the one-shot deal, BioWare has state... Dragon Age: Origins DLC planned for the next two years 31 So yes, BioWare loves downloadable content. Not only will Dragon Age: Origins DLC be available on the game's launch date, the developer is also planning to further drain our bank accounts with co... Dragon Age: Origins launch trailer is seriously badass 60 Ready for some real hotness? Check out this ridiculously over-the-top launch trailer for Dragon Age: Origins, with cinematic action so good that the actually videogame itself won't even dream of... Origin's foe proves eight nipples are better than one 20 The latest Dragon Age: Origins teaser is a weird one. Opening with a dark poem spoken aloud by a mysterious woman in a monotone voice, a few Grey Wardens are shown finding big and multiple-nipple... Dragon Age gets 'Warden Keep' DLC at launch 57 Everybody loves launch-day DLC, right? It reminds them that content has been included and withheld from the disc, which means is a good thing because of reasons. Anyway, what I really need to tel... Dragon Age, Army of Two getting comic book treatment 6 Videogames and comic books. Is there no greater marriage? Not according to the many publishers that want their upcoming game committed to ink for all eternity, in any case. The latest company to ... How f'ing metal is Dragon Age: Origins? 38 Metal is an abstract thibng. A lot of us use the word to convey that a videogame has an indefinable amount of oomph. The word describes a swagger. An emotion. An action. It describes a lot of thi... Origins 'Character Creator' launching October 13th 16 Remember when it took you over an hour to bust out of the sewers in Oblivion? Sure, you were eager to play the game, but that nose was just too wide and those cheekbones a bit too gaunt to save t... More about Mass Effect 2's brazen Subject Zero 44 Well well, Subject Zero. Certainly designed to catch our attention, this new addition to the Mass Effect 2 universe has had people chatting since the weekend. She's the type of badass bitch I use... Denerim and blood: the latest Dragon Age: Origins trailer 13 Denerim. It’s the capital city of Fereldin, the magical fantasy-land that Dragon Age: Origins is based in. Described as a place of “history and antiquity,” it’s probably t... Buy the Mako from Mass Effect for your Xbox Live Avatar 29 Over on the Xbox Live Marketplace, a new prop has appeared in the Avatar Store. You are now able to purchase an RC replica of the Mako craft used to cart Commander Shepherd and crew around the su... Subject Zero the focus of new Mass Effect 2 screens 36 The first footage of Subject Zero -- a previously unannounced character in Mass Effect 2 -- hit the Internet earlier this weekend. The character-centric trailer revealed a tough-curse-slinging wo... Dragon Age: Origins has music, this video proves it 15 Dragon Age: Origins is a dark medieval-fantasy videogame. So it would only be fitting that it have a dark medieval-fantasy score, right? Well, that’s what we’re getting if our ears ha... Fans are making Mass Effect 2 better 49 The collective BioWare brain is an information sponge. As explained by Greg Zeschuk in a recent interview with Gamasutra, the studio learns something new with each release. That knowledge isn&rsq... Dragon Age: The Calling announced as new prequel book 7 We'd already heard that yet another prequel novel was coming for BioWare's upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins, and today The Calling has officially been announced. The book continues the plot of Th... BioWare aims to make people emotional with upcoming games 12 Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins might make players cry -- or experience exhilaration, get wicked pissed, or feel like a nerd. Described as the “goal” in an interview with VideoG... BioWare tells us how you do sex right 17 In our penultimate BioWare story, we told you what the studio thought about the mainstream reactions to sex in videogames. Since the developer is no stranger to erotic digital liaisons, we also a... BioWare tells us when sex will be acceptable in games 28 I'm sure you all remember the ludicrous Mass Effect sex scandal, where FOX News flipped out over a sex scene that they hadn't even watched. BioWare could potentially rekindle those fires with Dra... So, why does Dragon Age use 'The New Sh*t' in its ads? 30 Most of you have complained about the marketing campaign for Dragon Age: Origins, and BioWare's decision to use Marilyn Manson's "The New Sh*t" as a backing track. I personally love it ... BioWare on why moral choices in games fail so much 38 In our last BioWare story, we talked about how Dragon Age: Origins will be "aggressively" grey, and how it plans to introduce a truly engaging moral choice system. I then asked Mike Lai... Dragon Age's moral choices will be 'aggressively grey' 18 "Moral choice" is a term thrown around a lot by developers these days, promising a game that will give you dilemmas, make you think, and introduce shades of grey. Let's face it, most of... The Old Republic subscription model still up in the air 21 The Star Wars: The Old Republic subscription model -- or lack thereof -- is still being worked out. In a conversation with GI.biz at gamescom, LucasArts head honcho Darrel Rodriguez said the stud... BioWare: Motion controls attempt to do fantastic things 16 With Microsoft and Sony following Nintendo into the motion control era, the subject of waggle is a hot topic. While checking out Dragon Age: Origins at BioWare headquarters, I took the opportunit... BioWare: Good writing in games is 'essential' 33 Writing in videogames is something we've been discussing with industry figures for a while. Chris Avellone says it's important, but not that important. Dragon Age writer David Gaider agrees. Howe... BioWare: Our pedigree will make Dragon Age stand out 27 Dragon Age: Origins has been disregarded as a Lord of the Rings clone by many gamers who haven't been paying attention, and while I completely disagree, I must admit that it's difficult for any f... 'Dragon Age 2: Origins Harder' could be happening 15 It is said that curiosity let the cat out of the bag. OK. Perhaps it’s not said like that, but I really wanted an excuse to confuse the ancient saying for this particular situation because ... Labor Day PSA: KOTOR available as a digital download 16 One of the few good Star Wars titles is now available for digital download. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic -- an RPG developed by LucasArts and BioWare -- can be purchased on Direct 2 Driv... BioWare: Piracy is always a problem 33 Piracy is a hot topic for any PC developer, so when I went to check out Dragon Age: Origins in Edmonton, I took the opportunity to ask BioWare whether a loyal fanbase makes piracy less of a probl... BioWare won't justify Dragon Age Collector's Edition 35 Those who are familiar with my writing will know that I don't feel a game should have a special edition until it's been earned. Brand new IPs rarely deserve them, in my opinion, and I put this to... Preview: Dragon Age: Origins 49 Dragon Age: Origins has been an uncharacteristically low-profile game from BioWare. The studio has certainly put its marketing weight behind the game, but it's failed to capture the imagination o... BioWare and Gabe and Tycho team up for Origins comic 11 Dragon Age: Origins is to be enthusiast-playable at PAX this year, but the connection between the game and the event doesn’t end there. Founders of the event, Gabe and Tycho, the artists be... Dragon Age DRM will be disc-check only because EA trusts us 23 Electronic Arts is famed for cramming SecuROM into everything, seemingly just for fun. That's why it's quite surprising that BioWare's upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins won't be sporting masses of... TIM CURRY IS IN DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS! 48 As if I needed another reason to be excited for Dragon Age: Origins, along comes news that Tim Curry, star of such films as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, IT and of course, Fern Gully, will be le... Dragon Age: Origins has over 120 hours of gameplay 49 Roleplaying games: They take a long time to play. Everybody loves to hear a developer make stuff up about how long it takes for a game to be beaten, and BioWare's Ray Muzyka has kindly obliged, b... Dragon Age: Origins takes us to Haven (not Outer Haven) 27 Dragon Age: Origins is not a Lord of the Rings rip-off, despite what a smattering of fools keep saying. It's got elements of high fantasy in it, sure, and most high fantasy is inspired by Tolkein... Why the Dragon Age: Origins DLC character was cut 5 Dragon Age: Origins ships with downloadable content called "The Stone Prisoner." The day and date content isn’t a traditional downloadable. It adds (among other things) a wide-sho... GC 09: Dragon Age: Origins trailer, now with more epic 52 I don't get why more people aren't going crazy for Dragon Age: Origins. It stands to reason that the first BioWare game I've been truly excited for is also the first BioWare game that the masses ... GC 09: Mass Effect 2's 'Grunt' looks mean, also young 16 Commander Shepard has to assemble the nastiest and deadliest cast of characters around him if he -- and the rest of human civilization -- is to have a chance at finding out why his race is disapp... GC 09: Freshly cooked Dragon Age: Origins screens 9 Gamescon is unleashing its fury on the land, bringing more pictures and videos than the human brain can process. Some brand new Dragon Age: Origins screenshots have just been made public, and now... GC 09: Mass Effect 2 trailer and new details revealed 29 Bioware has delivered new information on Mass Effect 2 at today's EA Gamescom press conference. The first information of note is the inclusion of recruitment and loyalty systems to the game. Play... Dragon Age: Origins writer really wants title to release 11 Not long ago, retailer listings indicated that Dragon Age: Origins was pushed back by two weeks. The official response didn’t contain the reason. This morning it was revealed that the game ... BioWare talks Dragon Age: Origins delay and PS3 chicanery 32 Last week, we discovered that Dragon Age: Origins was suffering a slight delay, being pushed back to November from October. According to developer BioWare, the delay has nothing to do with qualit... Dragon Age writer explains ESRB brothel listing 3 If you want a good laugh, take a gander at the ESRB listing for Dragon Age: Origins. It confirms the existence demon breasts, gratuitous violence, and heavy caressing. It also reveals the existen... BioWare's Gaider: story is important, but not that important 9 A few weeks ago, Obsidian lead creative designer Chris Avellone told us that story is an important game component, but it’s not as important as systems or level design. While a rich never d... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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