Horns are the norm

Dragon Age Origins Blog qunari Dragon Age 2   New Qunari Concepts

These aren’t your average Qunari from Dragon Age: Origins. Two new concepts released Wednesday give us a glimpse of the horned Qunari. These Qunari are just one of several new race alterations we might be seeing in Dragon Age 2, hints some of the BioWare staff.

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Dragon Age DLC Golems of Amgarrak Trailer Released

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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San Diego Comic Con, DA2 demo and a new DLC

Dragon Age Origins Blog midweek1 Midweek News Roundup No. 1

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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New story details emerge also

Dragon Age New DLC Named: The Golems of Amgarrak

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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A behind-the-scenes look at audio, art and mechanical development

Dragon Age 2 Development Video Released

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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Smashing gender roles and darkspawn skulls

Dragon Age Origins Blog shale1 Shale and Gender Stereotypes in Dragon Age 

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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