Today Bioware announced the first expansion for Dragon Age: Origins. Dubbed “Awakening,” the new expansion, which adds new locations and party members, is due out this March.

Awakening allows gamers to either play with their existing Dragon Age character, or start over again as “a new Grey Warden from the neighboring land of Orlais.” Players will be tasked with “uncovering the mystery of how the darkspawn survive after the slaying of the Archdemon.” Read more… »

Today Blizzard revealed that there will be a Protoss “mini-campaign” integrated into the Terran-centric singleplayer campaign in StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty.

According to a forum post by Stefanie Gwinner, Blizzard’s European RTS community manager, “I can confirm that there will be a Protoss mini-campaign that lets you control Protoss units.” She went on to say “This part of the campaign mode is of course way shorter than the Terran part, but it is very fun to have a very different playstyle to add even more variety to the game. [Y]ou won’t be using all units or getting to know buildings and upgrades.” Read more… »

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no, it’s some guy with a jet pack strapped to his back, flying around in the Bermuda Triangle, fighting aliens using cover and shoot gameplay mechanics. That’s essentially the best way I can describe Capcom’s newest IP, Dark Void, and it’s exactly why the game needs a demo badly.

Luckily, it appears that a demo will be available for download tomorrow on the Xbox 360 and Thursday on the PS3.  We will then finally be able to figure out whether this game has wings to fly, or whether it will crash and burn like Bionic Commando some other Capcom titles as of late.  So who out there is curious enough to download this and find out for themselves if it’s worth purchasing? Read more… »

I’m one of those people who doesn’t believe rumors leaked through the GameSpot forums.  Unfortunately, I’m also the kind of person who loves juicy rumors, especially when they are about the newest entry in the Fallout series, Fallout: New Vegas.

Well it appears that a GameSpot forum user has posted a ton of information about the new Fallout game, which will be debuted in the upcoming issue of Game Informer. I’ve compiled a complete list of the rumors, which can be viewed after the jump, but I must warn you that this all comes from a so called “trusted source” who apparently has inside connections to the magazine.  For all we know, this information could be completely false. Read more… »

While it’s not necessarily rare for game servers for older games to be shut down, EA dropped the bomb today by announcing the server shut down of several of its titles for Xbox 360, PC and PS3 gamers. The thing that has many gamers in an uproar is that many of the included titles are the ‘09 iteration of their respective games.

Usually server shutdown announcements are coupled with a healthy dose of time for gamers to patch their wounds and move on to greener and greater fields, however EA has stated that the servers for the games in the list below will be gone on February 2nd, 2010 which is exactly a month away. In addition, it seems while gamers will be able to play their games until the cut off date, many community forums and programs for the affected games will be closed before then.

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Today indie developer Cyanide Studios announced that it’s fantasy football  (as in wizards and goblins, not ‘fantasy football’) game Blood Bowl will be receiving a retail release next year courtesy of publisher SouthPeak Interactive.

While Blood Bowl is current available for the PC via digital distributors like Steam, there has been little mention of the Xbox 360 or PSP release, that is until today. Cyanide announced that the retail copies for the Xbox 360 and PC will arrive next month. The PSP release will come later this spring. Read more… »

While most developers are still on holiday, the good folks over at BioWare are hard at work. How do i know this? Today the developer released a new ‘Developer Dispatch’ video discussing Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Specifically this video discusses the design decision behind the game’s dark side characters. Apparently there are two Sith classes, the sorcerer-esque Inquisitor (think Emperor Palpatine) and the Lightsaber welding Sith Warrior à la Darth Vader. According to the video, the Sith Warrior  is you go to guy when it comes to direct confrontation. The Inquisitor, on the other hand, is better suited for the political war.

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Quake Live, the free to play online FPS, is celebrating the holidays in style. Not only will you be able to play with some festive duds, but an entire level has been completely remixed into what is now called “Silent Night”.

So if you weren’t lucky enough to get anything gaming this holiday, log onto Quake Live and do some fragging! Hit the jump to see what the level looks like.

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Episodic content tends to derive into a hit or miss situation. Either the developer can string a narrative and gameplay together over the course of three, four, or maybe five segments that intertwine to make a enjoyable cohesive unit, or each episode attempts to define itself as a free standing game, unable to adequately connect with one another and becomes a Smörgåsbord of failure. However, when Telltale games is at the helm, the latter has a piss-poor chance, at best, of happening.

Tales of Monkey Island valiantly returns with its’ fifth and final installment, The Rise of the Pirate God; a climax that even Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate™ would find worthy. Read more… »

There’s only a few more days left until Christmas; did you get all your shopping done?

If not, the Internet has some great last second deals.  SEGA is offering its PlayStation Store games (ALL of them) for 40% off, Good Old Games dropped the price of 171 of its DRM-free titles by 25-40% (that’s almost their entire catalog), and apparently Amazon.com is offering the first Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! game for FREE when you pre-order its just-announced sequel which releases in March.

Find the SEGA games on sale after the jump.  Just hit the links for the other specials, and Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa!

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Despite being Gamer Limit’s resident Indie Guy, Osmos flew right under my radar when it was released back in August.  It wasn’t until the game was nominated for a Spike VGA (ugh, I know) that it popped to the forefront of my “to play” list.

Is it truly one of the finest indie games of the year, what with its ambient electronica soundtrack and simple controls?  Or, is there a reason it lost the “Best Indie Game” award to the experimental PS3 gem Flower?  The answer to both of these questions, dear readers, is “Yes.”

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Oh, snap!  After being denied OFLC classification in Australia for their upcoming game Aliens vs. Predator, game developer Rebellion re-submitted it to the OFLC’s review board.  They had originally refused to censor the game, essentially guaranteeing that it would never see an Australian release if the appeal failed, which seemed incredibly likely.

The kicker: they actually won.  See what they had to say about it after the jump.

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