Nightly Open Thread
Suppose for a moment that BioWare’s The Old Republic MMORPG fails commercially. Will the Star Wars franchise survive?
Tagged: BioWare
In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
Dragon Age 2's combat looks…a lot like Dragon Age: Origins, actually
I don’t say that like it’s a bad thing, mind you: And yes, I know this is old news. It’s been sitting in my Instapaper queue for a bit now, and I’m only now...
Mass Effect 3 Announcement Trailer
Well, it’s here and it’s official, and most of the speculation proved to be entirely correct. BioWare has announced, officially, Mass Effect 3, which is due in late 2011. The trailer, oddly enough, almost...
The cat's out of the bag: Mass Effect 3 is coming!
I mean, we already knew it was coming (in that we knew that the Mass Effect series was intended to be a trilogy). But thanks to a happy little slip-up on the EA online...
EA's new Facebook game: Dragon Age Legends
Well, here’s one title that will benefit from the new EA/Facebook agreement! And as Joystiq reports, playing Dragon Age: Legends will have net you some extra content in Dragon Age 2 (though what, exactly,...
Origin: Best PC game developer of all time?
Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett thinks so. [Update: link fixed! — Ed.] And I, for one, cannot disagree. Don’t get me wrong: there are a few other phenomenal game developers out there. I’m less sold on...
Free-to-Play: the way of the future for MMOs?
Last month, Turbine announced that their MMORPG, Lord of the Rings Online, was switching from a paid subscription payment model to a microtransaction-based free-to-play model instead. The result? According to Kate Paiz, LotRO’s executive...
Open Question: What sort of education do you need to get into game programming?
Kevin Fishburne sent me a link to this “Ask Slashdot” installment, in which a user poses that very question. The discussion that results is pretty informative; definitely worth a read. It covers a number...
Dragon Age 2 imports "the world"
[amazonify]B003UF9E0O:right[/amazonify]Joystiq reports that the lingering ambiguity over how BioWare’s Dragon Age 2 [pre-order] will handle character imports has been cleared up. …lead designer Mike Laidlaw revealed that while you don’t get to import your...
EA and Activision execs trade barbs
Apropos of the discussion that took place in this article, you Dragons and Dragonettes might be interested to read about a wee dust-up that took place between EA and Activision executives over the weekend:...
