Tweet Normally the week before Christmas is pretty quiet as far as major releases go. A couple generic titles might make an appearance, but with gifts already purchased a major game would do better releasing in the new year. Star Wars: The Old Republic is breaking this trend in a big way. This isn’t...

Tweet If filling out an online form with the hopes of being a beta tester for the forthcoming Bioware MMO was any indication of a persons intentions to be a first day purchaser, publisher EA should be ready for one heck of a launch. The seemingly monolithic 1.5 million registered players that EA claims have...

Tweet Bioware’s epic dark fantasy RPG is back this week in its second installment. Dragon Age: Origins put gamers in the boots of a Grey Warden, an ancient order bent on repelling the evil darkspawn back to the bowels of the Deep Roads. Unlike that other Bioware RPG series, Dragon Age II won’t be...

Tweet A recent patch to the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 has let the name, and through a little sleuthing, some of the details for a forthcoming piece of DLC for the Sci-FI RPG slip. Tentatively titled “Arrival,” the DLC will more then likely put the focus on  Dr. Amanda Kennison, a subject...

Tweet In news that will surprise exactly no-one, it has been revealed that Dragon Age II contains racy bits. Specifically, according to the ESRB, who gave the game a Mature rating: During the course of the game, characters sometimes engage in sexual dialogue (e.g., “Why is it always about sex with...

Tweet The Cerberus Network daily news, available on the home screen of Bioware’s epic space RPG, is set to go on indefinite hiatus come the one year anniversary of the game’s launch on January 24th.  Fortunately, the system that has added to Mass Effect canon in bite sized news blurbs...

Tweet That bastion of journalism, IGN, has let it be known that Bioware will be releasing Mass Effect 2 to the PS3 on January 18, 2011. Are we living in the future, or what? Is it full of stars? I dunno about you guys, but my birthday is right around the same day. Just sayin’. BioWare producer Jesse...

Tweet Electronic Arts’ Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown believes that Star Wars: The Old Republic has the potential to run for at least ten years. He also claims that the MMO won’t depend on millions of subscribers. Speaking at the UBS Annual Media and Communications Conference in New York, he...

Tweet PlayStation 3 owners are understandably excited about the impending opportunity to play one of the best games of the year just passed: Mass Effect 2. But details have been somewhat thin on the ground. Many have questioned exactly how the branching storyline will be handled, given that the original Mass...

Tweet Much like its illustrious predecessor, Dragon Age II is getting a web-based companion game. Unlike the standalone Dragon Age Journeys, however, Dragon Age Legends is a Facebook-based game which takes advantage of the social network’s inherent community features. EA claim that Legends’...