By Thistle, on April 11th, 2010
Just come upon some good deals on videogames while preparing a post about games and activities for World Cup 2010. The World Cup post will follow shortly but some of the offers at Amazon US and Amazon UK might be time limited, so we’ll go with that first.
As with our last [...]
By Thistle, on March 27th, 2010
The recently released Dragon Age: Origins – Awakenings pack for the enjoyable, if slightly predictable, Dragon Age: Origins franchise is surprisingly good value if you’re a PC owner. The original game impressed on many levels and the first major add-on brings another 25 or so hours of equally intense gameplay.
Our Darkspawn [...]
By Thistle, on February 18th, 2010
Amazon UK has posted some excellent ‘Half-Term Deals’. The offers include a few of the best videogames we’ve looked at in recent months. If you live in the UK, or nearby, Sims 3, Darksiders and Dragon Age: Origins are among the most heavily discounted titles.
We also noticed the first signs of [...]
By Thistle, on November 10th, 2009
After a marathon weekend in the company of Dragon Age: Origins we’ve returned to compare our PC and PS3 games.
As a veteran of Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights my PS3 ‘opponent’ was looking for a major upgrade to the AD&D like gameplay of the earlier titles. He wasn’t disappointed and started [...]
By Thistle, on November 5th, 2009
We’ve laid hands on a couple of copies of Dragon Age: Origins. One PS3, the other PC.
Rob from the Treasure RPG team has set off to try out the PS3 version. He reckons he’ll get close to the 60 hours suggested playing time.
Dragon Age: Origins Collector’s Edition
By Thistle, on September 24th, 2009
The fourth and final part of our series on gaming and future learning covers a few skills that show exactly why games have a lot to offer in schools and homes:
Teachers and lecturers who don’t adapt to the alternative ‘curriculum’ presented through games and active learning will become increasingly disconnected from [...]
By Thistle, on July 20th, 2009
Bioware’s successor to Baldur’s Gate is getting close to release and we’re getting more of an idea of what to expect from the videogame, and the pen and paper version.
The videogame’s graphics look really good but players will need a decent graphics card to enjoy the best of them. An nVidia [...]