BioWare’s fantasy role-playing game is coming to the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 soon, but it’s also making its way to tabletops in pen and paper form. Green Ronin Publishing teams up with BioWare to publish a pen and paper role-playing game based onDragon Age: Origins. The paper game will extend on the Dragon Age universe, making it even more accessible to gamers. “Dragon Age: Originshas been described as the spiritual successor to BioWare’sBaldur’s Gate™, one of the most highly-acclaimed fantasy computer RPGs in the world, so when BioWare approached us to do a pen and paper version, we had to say ‘yes!...

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Cave Storyis probably one of my favorite games of all time. It has everything a great game ought to have; fun gameplay, a variety of weapons, a compelling story, and best of all, amazing sprite work and music. When it was announced that Pixel agreed to work on a port to WiiWare, I was pretty much ecstatic. Ever since then, we’ve only been strung along with images of the game’s progress....

Earlier today, Dale gave youhis thoughtsonAsura’s Wrathafter getting hands-on time with the CyberConnect2 action game. When it comes to anything this wild, though, there’s no getting around the need for video as a supplement. This E3 trailer delivers. Even without arms, the main character still manages to achieve badassery on the grandest of scales. That’s really all I want from the genre. The line about rage never dying? Okay, that was a little too silly....

Yesterday’s announcement of an Xbox 360 version ofMinecraft, with Kinect functionality no less, came as a big surprise to many. Notch pitched in onRedditabout the things he could talk about, and noted how it won’t be a straight port and won’t be developed by Mojang’s Notch and Jens — who are still committed to the PC version. A “new team” will be working on the Xbox 360 version, with programmers who “have done several console games before....

I previewedSonic Generationsinstunning 3D, and it confirmed two things for me: I won’t harp about the 3D beyond saying it was gross, but that’s a fault of 3D visuals in general not being all that great. I’d rather talk about what really matters — the game itself. It is most definitely a game of two halves, and it’s going to be very strange to see if those halves can ever reconcile....

Just what is up with Electronic Arts? EA has gone all-out and dropped pretensions of having learned the lessons that CEO John Riccitiello claimed to have learned. As EA gears up for the hostile takeover of Take-Two, Riccitiello hasfurther driven fears into gamersthat his company intends to eat the industry — by implying that EA would continueGrand Theft Autowithout Rockstar, if need be. Riccitiello has “no fear that the value EA placed on Take-Two could be damaged if the trio of Rockstar creators decided not to pursue furtherGrand Theft Autotitles after the latest release....

Electronic Arts has over a dozen games they want the San Diego Comic-Con masses to get their hands on. Here’s everything that EA will be showing off on the Comic-Con showfloor: Outside of Comic-Con, EA will be hosting the EA Gaming Lounge presented by Xbox 360 at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter Hotel from Thursday to Sunday. Here you’ll be able to play: The EA booth will also have the comic artists behindArmy of Two: The 40th Day,Dead Space ExtractionandDante’s Infernogiving out their autographs....

Look at you, Epic Games. I like their cozy location in Cary, North Carolina, but a game company this big has to have a worldwide presence. Why not Tokyo? It’s an amazing city, and the hub of the games world. The studio celebrates the opening of their Tokyo office on April 15th. This is an expansion thatwe first heard aboutat TGS last year. One of the functions of the office is to support Japanese partners that will use the Unreal Engine 3....

Comic Jumper‘s been available on XBLA since Wednesday, but I’ve been busy/sick/in Texas, so I’ve been behind. Here is the belated fourth and final installment of our exclusive preview ofComic Jumper: The Adventures Of Captain Smiley. Josh Bear and Michael Wilford from Twisted Pixel were kind enough to show us the game, and give us irreverent bits of trivia at the same time. I should warn you that this video segment contains footage of a manga rainbow unicorn....

Last time I sawDead Space 2, Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis hinted about the game’s “epic moments.” He wouldn’t go into detail at the time, buthe hoped that playerswould go “HOLY SHIT!” when experiencing these sections. Well, Steve, I definitely had a few “HOLY SHIT!” moments when I got my very first hands-on withDead Space 2yesterday. Like, I almost ruined my pants from the demo. That’s how good it was. God I wish I was kidding....

This week’s fake game, conceptualizedandPhotoshopped by forumiteToiletDuck, combines two gaming franchises which — let’s face it — are more or less made for each other. Cooking Chief: Cook Off, available for the Wii60, combines the slam-bang action ofHalowith the slam-bang cookery ofCooking Mama, with potentially incredible results. SaysToiletDuck: Finish the plate. So, you’ve saved the world, now what? Feed the Earth! Join Master Ch(i)ef and friends while cooking some of the finest foods from around the planet!...

Yes! Finally! The megapatch forFallout: New Vegaswe’ve all been desperately awaiting is now available for PlayStation 3 owners. For those playing on Steam or Xbox 360, the same patch is expected to go live early next week. Here are the so-called “top fixes”: The fixes for specific quests and game mechanics/areas are listed on theBethesda Blog. Basically, much of the content inNew Vegasis being tweaked in some way. As someone who is about to do a Hardcore mode run, the mere promise of not having to un-glitch my companions every twenty minutes is overwhelming....