Let’s face facts. Despite the rising number of female gamers, the majority of gamers are male, and the industry is not ashamed to use ample, barely concealed mammary glands to appeal to that demographic. Today’s rumble pits two femme fatales from the industry against each other. They both share the same name, wrangle dark forces with their feminine wiles, and follow the least oppressive dress codes imaginable. Hailing from Dark Stalkers and Dragon Age, this week we choose our winners for Morrigan Mayhem.
With the impending release of Bioware’s hotly anticipated new RPG Dragon Age: Origins, EA has been hard at work to release a browser-based flash game to expand upon the story of Origins. The result is Dragon Age Journeys, a three part installment by EA’s newest studio, EA2D. A crack team of flash author greats has been assembled for the project staff, including Daniel Stradwick, Adam Phillips, and Andrew Sega. The Deep Roads is part one of the three part saga that has just been released, and even includes unlockable equipment for Origins upon completion of certain achievements and tasks.
Protagonists. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds. The most successful of these creatures seem to be the strong and silent type. From Link onward, a majority of our protagonists have been mute or near-mute with fairly generic personalities. This can be used to great effect or detriment on behalf of the creator, depending on the quality of writing to flesh out the character. Two of the most recently successful of these silent heroes shall be our subjects for today’s Thursday Throwdown.
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Day 1 of Gen Con saw the opening ceremonies with Tracy Hickman and Peter Adkison plugging the XTreme GM Handbook, holding a moment of silence for our departed comrades, and tossing the first die roll of the convention. We walked the floor a bit and managed to take a few pictures of some of the displays, but this personally being my first time here, I was a bit overwhelmed and took far less shots than I intended. At least there are 3 more days to make up for it. Anyway, without further ado, the first shots of Gen Con, after the bump. Continue Reading…
The whole cast is coming at you as live as we can from Gen Con 2009! We talk about our experiences with Gen Con so far and what we expect to do in the coming days. Much is talked of, from cosplaying to noodles to the new d20 system from Paizo, Pathfinder, and much much muuuuch more.
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Bioware just put up a link with pictures of the box art for their upcoming game Mass Effect 2. The title, scheduled for release in early 2010, is still a long way off but now at least you know what it will look like on your shelf!
What are you running from, Shepard? Who are those people following you? How is that planet so close to the one you’re on without crashing into it? What is that awkwardly posed chick shooting at? Oh, my!
[Source: Bioware via Facebook]
