Mike Laidlaw, the creative director of the Dragon Age series, has announced his departure from BioWare, where he's worked for 14 years.
Dragon Age: Origins - Return to Ostagar
Dragon Age loses lead writer to new BioWare game
"10 years is a long time to work on any one project."
Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider has moved onto "a new, upcoming BioWare project" and left Dragon Age behind.
EA botches Dragon Age Ultimate Edition
Forgot to include Return to Ostagar DLC.
European copies of Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 3 were shipped with the wrong content, developer BioWare has admitted.
Dragon Age: Origins gets Ultimate Edition
It only does everything.
BioWare has announced plans to wrap up all add-ons and DLC packs released for Dragon Age: Origins into one tidy package.
BioWare working on PS3 DAO fix
Firmware update crashing games.
BioWare is working with Sony to discover why Dragon Age: Origins struggles to run on PS3.
BioWare bosses apologise for Bazaar
Promise future events for "excluded" fans.
BioWare bosses Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have apologised for restricting the BioWare Bazaar competition to North American residents only (but not those in Florida or New York).
BioWare: EA helped us "see everything"
Didn't understand DLC when independent.
BioWare's full of praise for new owner EA, which has helped the RPG-maker see the light in terms of creating, pricing and planning downloadable content.
BioWare "think of games as franchises"
Sequels are fun to make, says Muzyka.
BioWare once steered clear of sequels, but today the EA-owned company has a very different mindset.
Out just prior to Awakening.
BioWare has told PS3 owners that the Return to Ostagar DLC will finally be released for their platform on 11th March.
Dragon Age: Origins - Return to Ostagar
Back to hack.
Both gamers and industry alike are still fumbling around, circling each other, trying to figure out how the whole downloadable content situation should work. What's a reasonable price? How much should it add to the game? Shouldn't this content be in the game already? Or is it material that would otherwise never have seen the light of day?
It's unlikely that Return to Ostagar, the latest squirt from BioWare's busy digital udder, will offer any satisfying answers to these burning questions. It's a thin, forgettable little thing, cheap in price yet offering little more than 30 minutes of one-note gameplay for your virtual money. What you're really doing is forking out for another stat-boosting set of matching armour pieces and some rather tasty weaponry, dressed up in a rather half-baked narrative shell.
As the title prosaically suggests, you're headed back to Ostagar, the game-opening scene of King Cailan's grisly defeat, Loghain's betrayal and the fall of the Grey Wardens. A location loaded with importance for the world of Dragon Age, then, but its potential remains sadly untapped by the time you reach the end of this minor diversion.