Dragon Age: Origins Metacritics review

Here are Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins metacritic review. Bioware is the maker of Star Wars KOTOR and Mass Effect series. No doubt that this fantasy RPG does deliver its promise.

1UP: A
BioWare remains the undisputed master of the Western RPG. Dragon Age maintains and refines BioWare's moral choices, strong character development, and excellent tactical combat while adding a harsh, dark tone overall.

Gamespot: 9.5/10
Incredible storytelling, great characters, and exciting battles are just a few of the things that make this fantasy role-playing game so extraordinary.

IGN: 8.7/10
BioWare's latest masterpiece sets the epic adventure bar high.
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Game in focus: Heavy Rain

Developed by Quantic Dreams, Heavy Rain is a PS3 exclusive that set to release Spring 2010.
It's an interesting out of normal game. It is a game that is not action nor RPG, its hard to describe. It mainly involves with story telling about normal people in extraordinary situation. The plot is about a serial killer named "Origami Killer", the story will be divided between three different people, hence different view of the story. A detective, a woman who tried to find her missing child, and a private investigator (yet to be confirmed), which of course, all of them has a tie somehow to this Origami Killer.

The gameplay is expected to be dynamic enough to give you freedom. For example: there was a scene that require you to gather information from a shopkeeper, then a robber comes in and point the gun to the keeper. You happened to stay out of sight from the robber. Do you plan to grab a bottle and sneak behind the robber and hit him, or you simply try to calm the robber down and talk to him? Every decision you make has a consequences. Fail to talk down the robber can result in a bullet in your arms, for example. And depending what action you take, the information from shopkepper will be different also.

David Cage, the CEO of Quantic Dreams confirmed that Heavy Rain demo is on the way, but he reiterate that it is hard to decide what is it in the demo.

We are currently working on a demo, which is a real challenge. Finding one scene that can convey what we are trying to achieve with Heavy Rain is something really difficult. If we show an action scene, some players will think that this is what Heavy Rain is all about, and it is the same thing if we show an exploration scene. The problem is that each scene of the game offers contextual game play, which is something very difficult to explain and convey in a single demo.

Demos are often a double-edge thing: if you don't release one, players might think that you have something to hide. We also know many good games that ended up not being massive hits because the demo could not convey the quality of the game behind it.

Because Heavy Rain is a anew concept and since many gamers will want to check what it is before buying it, we will be releasing a demo. We just need to find the best scene for it.

I will certainly look forward the demo when it comes out, cause I have a feeling that this game might be one of the extraordinary games.

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World of Warcraft shut down in China

Chinese government shut down World of Warcraft in China. Apparently they found "gross violation" of chinese law with the localization contract of NetEase, a Blizzard partner company.
They were told to cease charging and stop accepting new registration. The Chinese government also rejects the application to localize first WoW expansion Burning Crusade.
After so much ups and downs, including changing partner, and spending most of this year offline, Blizzard is meeting a road block again. It is still unclear when the ban will be lifted.
No doubt it will affect the earnings of the parent company. Chinese gamers however, can opt to migrate to different country server for the time being to continue their quest/ gold farming.

Source: Gamespot


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Playstation Indonesian Region reactivate

After being offline for almost two weeks, Playstation confirmed by email that PSN Indonesia finally back online.
Sorry email has been distributed to users. Not only that, whatever content that you have bought between 1st Oct until 29th Oct will be free. Your credit will go back to your PSN wallet. Well.. that's nice, too bad I didn't bought a lot during that time.
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Super Street Fighter IV coming to arcade (Rumor)

Capcom initially planned that Super Street Fighter IV might not be coming to arcades. But after a while seems that Capcom changed his mind. According to Shoryuken.com, it might be coming after all.
Arcade Infinity, a highly respected arcade in Southern California uses its twitter to make a statement that the arcade version is coming. Not only that, it will come before the console version.

"Super Street Fighter 4 upgrade coming to arcades, at least before the console release".

Capcom hasn't said anything about the arcade version, nor it denies not planning making one, especially since fans has been calling out.
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Unofficial Modern Warfare 2 Killstreak Rewards and perks list.

This is a list of perks and kill streak rewards that circulate around the web. Rumor is that somebody got a hold of pirated PC Modern Warfare 2 and list out all the things. So please take it with grain and salt while viewing the list. It might not be 100% accurate. But it looks alright by me.

3 Kills - UAV
4 Kills - Care Package
4 Kills - Counter UAV
5 Kills - Sentry Gun
5 Kills - Predator Missile
6 Kills - Precision Airstrike
7 Kills - Strike
7 Kills - Attack Heli
8 Kills - Emergency Airdrop
9 Kills - Pave Low
9 Kills - Stealth Bomber
11 Kills - Chopper Gunner
11 Kills - AC-130
15 Kills - EMP
25 Kills - Tactical Nuke


Perks:

Marathon (Tier 1)
Standard: Unlimited Sprint
Pro: Get over obstacles faster

Sleight of Hand (Tier 1)
Standard: Faster reload
Pro: Aim down sights faster

Scavenger (Tier 1)
Standard: Retrieve ammo from dead bodies

Bling (Tier 1)
Standard: Dual attachments on primary weapon
Pro: Dual attachments on secondary weapon

One Man Army (Tier 1)
Standard: Use primary weapon in secondary slot

Stopping Power (Tier 2)
Standard: Increased bullet damage
Pro: Increased bullet damage to vehicles

Lightweight (Tier 2)
Standard: Move faster

Hardline (Tier 2)
Standard: Killstreaks rewards require 1 less kill
Pro: Deathstreaks require 1 less death

Cold Blooded (Tier 2)
Standard: Undetectable by UAV, air support, sentries, and thermal

Danger Close (Tier 2)
Standard: Increases explosive weapons damage

Commando (Tier 3)
Standard: Increased melee distance

Increased melee speed Steady Aim (Tier 3)
Standard: Increased hip-fire accuracy

Scrambler (Tier 3)
Standard: Jams enemy radar

Ninja (Tier 3)
Standard: Invisible to heartbeat sensors
Pro: Move silently

SitRep (Tier 3)
Standard: Insertions. Reveals enemy explosives and Tactical Insertions

Last Stand (Tier 3)
Standard: Survive after being killed for 10 second, pistol equipt. You can crawl too

Source: Kotaku

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What do you get from 25 kill streak in Modern Warfare 2?

So, looks like gunner chopper won't be the end of your kill streak. There is a reward for those with 25 kill streak. Its a weapon of mass destruction. Watch the video. 



Apparently I never ever, get 25 kill streak in CoD 4. Looks like this is as far as I can see.

Source: Kotaku
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