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Canadian Video Game Award winners announced

Dragon Age: Origins took home the top prize of Game of the Year at the inaugural Canadian Video Game Awards.  Though the Bioware RPG took the top award, along with Best Writing, it was Ubisoft Montreal’s Assassin’s Creed II which took the most awards, with Best Console Game, Best Game Design and Best Visual Arts, and shares the award for Best Technology with Prototype, from Radical Entertainment in Vancouver. Toronto developer Capybara Games also took home Best Handheld Game for Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, and Best Downloadable Game…

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Canadian Video Game Awards finalists announced

Last month, we told you about the nominations for the Canadian Video Game Awards, and now the finalists have been posted for voting.  The five overall finalists are Assassins Creed II, Dawn Of War, Dragon Age: Origins, FIFA Soccer 10 and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes.  Assassins Creed II has been nominated in the most categories, at 7, with Dragon Age following behind with 5. Although not nominated for Game Of The Year, Prototype appears as a finalist in 5 categories.  Though I don’t find this surprising, because I…

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Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator Available Now

Are you planning on playing Dragon Age: Origins on the PC (as opposed to the Xbox 360 or PS3)?  If so, and you can’t wait to start making your (first) character, then look no further (or at least a little further).  As the headline says, you can now download the Character Creator, and be ready to jump into the action when the game is released on Nov 3. In fact, I’d recommend it.  Just like other recent Bioware titles like Mass Effect, you can suddenly find you’ve spent a good…

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Fan Expo 09: Dragon Age Origins

Alex talks with Chris Priestly of Bioware about their upcoming game Dragon Age: Origins.  It’s a wide ranging discussion about everything from sex in the game and refining moral choice options to developing the tool set for user generated content and discussing the dev team behind the new RPG. Some people have been having some issues with the Blip video frame rate so click more to see a YouTube version in 2 parts

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