Building a Living World – A Dragon Age: Origins video

When it rains it pours. New screenshots earlier today, and tonight the second Dragon Age novel by David Gaider arrived: Dragon Age: The Calling.

And this evening Bioware has released an interesting ‘behind the scenes’ video which features some of the Dragon Age team talking about the techniques they used to try to build a living world; that is, a world that players can lose themselves in because if feels so real.

Enough of my blather, why not have a look (watch it in HD if you have the bandwidth!):

Check out the Dragonchasers YouTube channel here.

Dragon Age: Origins reviewed

We’re still nearly a month from launch, and Game Informer has already reviewed Dragon Age: Origin (the PC version). Wow, that seems early considering what an epic game we’ve been promised. The good news is that they gave it quite a nice rating (9).

I haven’t read the review since I already know I’ll be playing Dragon Age and would prefer to go into it with a ‘clean palette’ (so to speak). So it’s back to waiting for me.

In the meantime, Bioware has released a fresh set of screenshots, and as always, I’ve hand-picked a few to share with you.