DRAGON AGE II

Kenneth Shepard Jul 13, 2022. 1 minute read

EA Discontinues BioWare Points, Makes DLC Purchasable With Them Free

Back in the early 2000s, companies were all about making up their own fake currencies that you had to buy with real money to purchase content and add-ons to games. This was the basis of the Xbox Store for several years, up until 2013, which used Microsoft Points to purchase…

Andrew King Jun 30, 2021. 8 minute read

From Max Payne to Zeus: How Narration in Games Helps Developers Get Creative

It’s a concept as old as stories, but in games, you can mostly trace the use of a narrator back to a trio of indies released around the start of the last decade. In 2011’s Bastion, you were a little guy running around as your actions were described by a…

Kenneth Shepard Apr 14, 2021. 2 minute read

Ex-Bioware Writer Wonders Aloud About if Dragon Age II Got a Snyder’s Cut Treatment

With Zack Snyder getting the backing to create his “original vision” of Justice League, folks in various media are having similar conversations about what that even looks like for other projects. David Gaider, ex-Bioware and current Summerfall Studios writer, wondered aloud on Twitter what Dragon Age II might look like if…

Thank You Bioware For Giving My Gay Ass a Heart Icon to Flirt With

On episode 36 of 99 Potions, Fanbyte’s weekly RPG-centric podcast, our News Editor Imran Khan raised some valid concerns about Bioware’s implementation of a heart icon to indicate romantic interest within dialogue options with Dragon Age II. “They tend to mistake positivity for romantic intention. Cause it gives people these…