BioWare/EA released a one minute trailer for the upcoming Dragon Age DLC “Golems of Amgarrak”, which is due on August 10th. Watch it here on Greywardens.com in high quality …

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With Dragon Age 2 on the horizon, there’s quite a bit of news to keep up with as more and more information about the game becomes available. While not everything is worthy of its own article, here at greywardens.com, we want to keep you in the know about what’s going on in the world of Dragon Age news. Each week we’ll recap some of the week’s stories in brief with links to keep you on top of all things Dragon Age.

So what’s happening this week? The San Diego Comic Con brought us some first looks at Dragon Age 2, a reveal of a new DLC package for Origins as well as plenty of other shenanigans.

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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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Most of the main characters we travel Ferelden with fit into traditional gender roles. Even those who may not be someone we’d encounter in our everyday lives still do not do much to challenge stereotypes.  Let’s take a brief look at them.

Wynne – matronlike, nourishing healer.
Alistair – manly man, fights with big sword, short hair, strong facial lines.
Oghren – dwarf, drinks a lot, swears, swings a big axe.
Leliana – fights from range, does her hair up, likes pretty things.
Morrigan – fights from range, wears makeup, likes pretty things.

Enough for now. The one character who I think really makes us think about our own ideas and definitions of gender is Shale.

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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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