If you’ve played Dragon Age: Origins, your actions can have a major influence on Dragon Age II. Bioware’s Mike Laidlaw talked with NowGamer and revealed that Dragon Age: Origins save data can be imported into Dragon Age II. Your character won’t be imported, but his or her choices will.

Laidlaw offered a number of story points that may differ among Dragon Age II players depending on Dragon Age: Origins actions…

Of course, OF COURSE after I had purchased every single Dragon Age: Origins DLC and expansion piecemeal, BioWare decides to sell them all together in one convenient, cost-effective package. Shame on me for buying them early as when they were released!

Time to get back into Dragon Age: Origins! “Leliana’s Song” isn’t just the name of one of the tracks from the Dragon Age: Origins soundtrack now, it’s also the newest downloadable content. Rather than giving the Warden a new adventure, Leliana’s Song that takes players into the past and shows what the bard Leliana’s life was like before the events of Dragon Age: Origins.

Leliana’s Song follows Leliana and her mentor Marjolaine on a mission that has dangerous consequences…

Amazon should just declare today BioWare day. If you’ve missed out on Dragon Age: Origins, the Dragon Age: Origins expansion pack Awakening and/or Mass Effect 2, you can catch up for cheap if you hurry! Amazon’s video game Deal of the Day for June 28, 2010 are all three games for multiple platforms.

If you want Dragon Age: Origins for the PS3, Xbox 360 or your Windows PC, you can get it for $10 off the normal price. So the console versions will be $39.99 each and the PC version will be $29.99. If you really want to maximize your experience, you can also pick up the expansion pack, Awakening, for all three systems as well. Once again, they’re $10 off the normal price, which makes the console versions and PC version $29.99 each.

If Mass Effect 2 is your thing, get ready to save on that too…

Welcome to the first installment of Who’s On Crack (in video games), a concept rudely stolen, er, politely borrowed from another site.The basic idea is this: People do crazy schtuff. Companies, which are run by people, do crazy stuff on a much larger scale. And when you mix fantasy worlds, die-hard fandom and entertainment industry PR, even crazier stuff happens.

Dragon Age: Origins may be a Bioware game, but its also an EA game. So, it shouldn’t be any surprise to anyone that the wave of expansion packs is about to begin. EA and Bioware have announced that the first Dragon Age: Origins expansion pack, Awakening, will be released on March 16, 2010, for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. There’s a little bit of a shock though, concerning the price. While most expansion packs typically cost about half of the price of the original game, Awakening will cost $39.99.

I suppose the price makes sense in a way, since Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening sounds like it’s almost a whole new game. You’re a Grey Warden Commander who must resurrect the order of Grey Wardens, while also discovering why there are still darkspawn around and what to do with them. You can either use your existing character from Dragon Age: Origins or create an entirely new one…

These five games are some that everyone seemed to adore but I didn’t care for at all. This by no means suggests that these are bad games but they wouldn’t get my recommendation if asked.

Despite getting critical acclaim from many, these five games gave me nothing but stress and I have to get this off my chest before 2010 gets underway.

With the holidays getting closer faster than a runaway sleigh, it’s time to start thinking about presents.

It’s really frustrating when you just don’t know what to get for someone but if that someone likes video games, you’re in luck.

If you are shopping for a video games fan, there are different options and stellar games this year, so to make things a little easier, here are a few suggestions based on the most popular categories…

If you’re enjoying Dragon Age: Origins and anxiously waiting for more DLC so there’s even more to love about the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game, there’s good news. EA is going to spread some holiday cheer in 2009 with a “Return to Ostagar” DLC pack for all versions of the game. An exact release date hasn’t been announced yet, just that it’ll be out around the holidays in both North America and Europe.

The latest quest is going to send players who purchase the DLC back to Ostagar. Originally in the game’s history, King Cailan of Ferelden and his Grey Wardens suffered defeat there, with Cailan losing his life in the ensuing battle…

EA is also among the major companies ready to step up and support GamesCom 2009. And the company’s going to be putting on quite a show. It is bringing 42 games across all platforms to display, including the iPhone.

There are a number of highlights to check out, from the extraordinary amount of games being displayed, to a special press conference (which you can watch online via live stream), an exclusive closed door area with special games being shown, a booth set up just for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and the demo debut of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Let’s look at the list of games EA is bringing along, in some shape or form, in alphabetical order…