With Cologne’s gamescom now over, we take a look at a wrap-up interview BioWare’s David Silverman and Mike Laidlaw did with EA’s France Community Manager Gregory Queste about Dragon Age 2′s development and about the experience of being out at gamescom. Check out the video below.

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After the debut of the Dragon Age 2 “Destiny” trailer, fans over on the Dragon Age 2 forums are calling out to BioWare for Lady Hawke in some, any form. Although the option to play as a female is part of the game, BioWare’s promotional Hawke is not  and no signs of a female version of the new game’s protagonist have been released or promised. Lady Hawke is just one example, but feminism in the gaming world is on the rise.

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Earlier this week, we posted some news about a new high-tier DLC package in the works by BioWare and had a brief impression of the content. Now, that DLC has a name and more details have been revealed about the new content. One thing about “The Golems of Amgarrak” hasn’t changed though - this new module is reportedly going to be tough.

UPDATE: BioWare’s Fernando Melo revealed a few more details about the DLC on the BioWare forums. Read below!

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Continuing to deliver exclusives, GameInformer recently released a video of some short interviews with BioWare’s developers working on Dragon Age 2. The four and a half minute video covers some of the work going into audio, art, and mechanics of the game. Take a look at the work going on behind the scenes at BioWare below.

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Aakduce, a fan of Greywardens.com (and Dragon Age, of course), was lucky enough to hang out at the San Diego Comic Con the other day. Even better — he had the chance to hang out with BioWare’s Evil Chris Priestly and Mike Laidlaw. Evil Chris, as you may know, is the social voice of all things BioWare, and by extension, Dragon Age; and Mike Laidlaw is the lead designer behind the epic-ness that is the story of Dragon Age 2. Check out Aakduce’s thoughts on the Dragon Age 2 preview — and some of the answers he received when questioning the dynamic duo — below.

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BioWare is debuting its first hands-on experience with Dragon Age 2 at the San Diego Comic Con this week. Unfortunately we can’t staff the show, but the good folk at IGN did get a chance to sit down with the XBOX360 early version and posted up their impressions of the build. Here’s a short recap of what they thought below. You can read the full article HERE.

UPDATE: After the article released, BioWare staffers corrected a few errors and cleared up some issues touched on in the IGN piece. You can find those clarifications in a thread on the BioWare Social Network HERE.

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