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Dragon Age Return to Ostagar
The long wait is over. Bioware has announced that Return to Ostagar is now available for the Xbox 360.
The PC version will follow later today, with the PS3 version being released "later".
UPDATE: Chris Priestly has announced that Return to Ostagar has been removed from XBox live. He says:
"This morning a title update on the Xbox 360 for Dragon Age: Origins was made available in preparation for the release of Return to Ostagar. This title update introduced a previously undetected issue that causes specialization classes to not work correctly in Dragon Age: Origins. We are removing Return to Ostagar from Xbox Live until the issue is resolved and are recommending that you do not download the title update. If you have already performed the update, we apologize for this and are working hard to ensure a fix is available as soon as possible."
NOTE: This DLC is not currently available on any platform [04:40, January 16, 2010 (UTC)]
IGN interviews Fernando Melo
IGN posts an informative interview with Fernando Melo (Online Producer of Awakening). This interview goes into further detail about Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and the reasons behind the delay of Return to Ostagar. Click here to read.
Official Official Official Dragon Age Origins - Awakening Website
BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening's website has been released. It features a trailer and some screen shots of the upcoming expansion.
Dragon Age: Awakening confirmed
IGN has confirmed that Dragon Age: Awakening will be the first expansion for Dragon Age: Origins. They put the release date at March 16, 2010 and the price at US$39.99.
Click here for the full article including pictures and a comment from BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka.
Gamestop has also released a product page for Dragon Age Origins Awakening with the following information:
- "From the Makers of the Best RPG of 2009, Dragon Age: Origins, comes the first official expansion pack. For centuries, the Grey Wardens—the ancient order of guardians, sworn to unite and defend the lands—have been battling the darkspawn forces. Legend spoke that slaying the Archdemon would have put an end to the darkspawn threat for centuries to come, but somehow they remain. You are the Grey Warden Commander and have been entrusted with the duty of rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens and uncovering the secrets of the darkspawn and how they managed to remain. How you choose to rebuild your order, how you resolve …
Return to Ostagar delayed
BioWare community manager Chris Priestly has announced on the BioWare forums that Return to Ostagar (scheduled for release 5th Jan 2010) has been delayed on all platforms. No further information was released.
Source: Dragon Age Forum
Big Dragon Age: Origins expansion in the works?
According to the Czech version of Eurogamer, they have acquired information about a big Dragon Age: Origins expansion pack, titled Dragon Age: Awakening being in the works, which is to be announced in January. It is said to feature a whole new player character and 15 hours of gameplay. According to Eurogamer, the expansion will premiere in March, possibly through both digital distribution and retail.
Return to Ostagar trailer
EA has released a trailer for the upcoming Return to Ostagar downloadable content. You can watch it below:
Release date for Return to Ostagar
BioWare announces that Return to Ostagar, a new piece of downloadable content, will be released January 5th, 2010 for both PC and XBox 360. The PS3 and Mac versions will follow later. It will cost 400 BioWare Points on the PC and 400 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360.
- EDMONTON, ALBERTA – December 29, 2009 – Leading video game developer BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), announced today that the Return to Ostagar downloadable content (DLC) for Dragon Age™: Origins will be released on January 5 in North America and Europe for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system and PC versions of the game at a cost of 400 BioWare Points or Microsoft Points. The DLC will be available for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system later in January. Return to Ostagar allows players to exact their revenge and embark on a quest for the mighty arms and armor of the once great King Cailan when they revisit Ostagar, the site of the Grey Wardens’ darkest hour, to reclai…
New news system
As you can see, we have replaced the old news, added manually to the main page, with a new system based on Wikia's blog feature. Now anyone can add news by creating a blog page and putting it in the "News" category, as well as the appropriate subcategories, like "Dragon Age: Origins news", "December 2009 news" etc., which will make it appear on the main page, as well as the appropriate news pages. You can now also comment on the news posts. So if you find interesting news about Dragon Age, don't hesitate to share it!
Welcoming new admins
The wiki welcomes three new admins, Mytharox, Tierrie, and Pwr905. All have made major contributions to the site and all will no doubt, continue to help the Dragon Age wiki to expand and improve.
Dragon Age: Origins comes to the Mac
- BioWare has announced that, come December 21st, Dragon Age: Origins will be available as a digital download for the Mac. Click here for more details.
Spike awards for Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins won PC game of the Year, and RPG of the Year at the Spike Video Game Awards.
Our first bot
- The wiki gives a warm welcome to Caridin, our first user run bot. If you would like to help run him, make a request, or even just check out what he's up to, check out his user page, or this forum topic.
Two milestones reached
The wiki reaches two great milestones - 1,000 articles and 1 million pageviews/day! See more details and discuss this awesome achievement in this forum thread.