Dragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned'

Dragon Age wasn’t meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that’s why Origins was full of storylines that ‘had to be abandoned’

Dragon Age: Origins took some big swings when it came to letting players, as the future Hero of Ferelden, make such a big mark on the world, changing the fates of individuals and nations. And BioWare felt free to give players this kind of agency, this ability to shape the story, because it didn’t expect…

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Japan: Nine Switch titles in top ten

The Japanese software and hardware sales charts are now in courtesy of Famitsu. The best-selling game this week is the adorable Animal Crossing: New Horizons which shifted an extra 53,506 copies. The new release for this week was Catherine: Full Body for the Switch which sold 6,917 units. The Nintendo Switch family sold an additional…

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Synology DiskStation DS415play NAS Review

At A Glance (+) Fresh: Accessible in File Explorer; DLNA certified; simple, easy-to-navigate interface. (-) Stale: No HDMI; limited to 32TB; a little pricey. Last week, we took a look at the QNAP TurboNAS TS-451 network attached storage appliance, one heck of an intelligent storage solution that packs four hard drive bays, an Intel Celeron…

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Lead Diablo artists say the best way to design endless spiky armor sets is to go look at anything that isn’t Diablo: ‘You can come back with a fresh mind and create new things’

In April, I had a chance to ask lead Diablo 4 developers how tough it is for their dev teams to continue coming up with ominous names for gameplay activities when they’ve spent 30 years exhausting every thesaurus in the demonic lexicon. Their answer: Pretty tough. Last week, PC Gamer spoke to the lead artists…

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