Since March 6, my game time has been consumed by BioWare’s Mass Effect 3. While I was running around the Citadel sidequesting Shepard’s buns off, I came to a striking realization: Mass Effect 3′s Citadel is everything that Dragon Age 2′s Kirkwall wanted to be. So here’s a quick look at how this small part of Mass Effect transcended pretty much the entire backdrop of Dragon Age 2.

This article contains some Mass Effect 3 plot spoilers, but they will be appropriately marked before and after so you can avoid them.

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In the ongoing quest for King Maric, our lovable threesome travels into a ghostly swamp. And it looks like they’re about to bite off a bit more than they can chew.

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While yesterday we reported the closing of the DA2 saga, today we deliver some of the strongest words we’ve seen out of BioWare’s mouth about the future of Dragon Age. Mike Laidlaw dropped a small post letting folks know that the new things the team is working on is a new Dragon Age game.

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It’s official: BioWare is done with Dragon Age II. In a forum post by Chris Priestly quoting DA2 executive producer Mark Darrah, the BioWare brass has confirmed they’re “moving the entire team’s focus to the next phase of Dragon Age’s future.”

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Character development and relationships are at the heart of the Dragon Age games.  Building up friendships with your party members can determine their roles in your game, and their eventual staying or leaving.  Keeping characters on is a strategy of a balanced party, of course.  But one of the hallmarks of Dragon Age is the interpersonal relationships that develop, which of course also leads to romance.  Romances are an integral part of the game world and deepen both your character and that of the NPCs.  Romance isn’t integral to the story, but certainly deepens it, in both games.  This of course leads to the inevitable question: which game has the better romance?

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The second issue of The Silent Grove came out and contains quite a twist. Alistair and company make it to Velabanchel and find the target of their quest. While some people (at least on our Facebook page) had a good guess who it was, the answer might surprise you. Spoilers within.

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