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Dragon Age: Origins Announced for the Mac
If you’re a Mac gamer looking with disappointment at this year’s holiday gaming releases, take heart, for BioWare and TransGaming may have just granted you an early present—Dragon Age: Origins is coming to the Mac later this month. The critically acclaimed title was first released for the PC and console systems in early November, and the quick turnaround time on the Mac version is a welcome surprise. The dark fantasy epic, from the makers of Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, will be available for Mac players to download on December 21.
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Dragon Age Gets a Gift from the Yeti
BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that they are releasing a new application, called Gift of the Yeti, on Facebook, which will be playable by all those who have an account and allows those who play it to get $10 off the price of a new copy of Dragon Age: Origins, when bought from the official web site of Electronic Arts.
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Of Dungeons, Dragons, and Gay Sex
Dragon Age: Origins allows players to develop combat and magic skills, interact with other characters and have romantic encounters. If you play as a male character, it is even possible to have a liaison with a male elf named Zevran.
This last detail has gotten the game (which is rated M for Mature, meaning that it is intended for players 17 and older) noticed by the news media, and has prompted a range of responses about the depiction of gay sex in mass entertainment.
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Lack Of Nudity in Dragon Age Was Designer’s Call
Through interactions with characters in your party, as well as prostitutes, it is currently possible to initiate animated sex scenes in Dragon Age: Origins. During these animations, however, the characters are wearing underwear. In an interview with videogamer.com, BioWare co-founder and CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka claimed that it was the design team’s decision to have no nudity during the sex scenes in Dragon Age: Origins.
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Review: Dragon Age: Origins the Dawning of a New Age
For Dungeon Masters and level one wizards alike, Bioware’s long-awaited king of role-playing games has arrived.
Dragon Age: Origins contains virtually all that is good in the realm of the 20-sided die, and has a bigger plot than every other RPG – the player gets a different back-story for each class and race in the game. Needless to say, this creates a ton of outcomes for character creation, just like its pencil and paper roots.