Dragon Age: Origins represents BioWare’s return to its roots, delivering a fusion of elements from existing fantasy works with emotionally-driven narrative, heart-pounding combat, powerful magic abilities and credible digital actors. Pre-order Dragon Age on Impulse and get a Formari Memory Band, an in-game item that boosts your character's experience and skill.

Cascade Game Foundry, a new Washington based studio by former Microsoft Flight Simulator devs, announced their entry into the simulation marketplace with an experienced team of industry pros poised to create a portfolio of innovative and engaging products which will appeal to both aficionados and people new to the genre.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (PS3/X360/PC)
• JU-ON: The Grudge (Wii)
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (NDS/Wii)
• Half-Minute Hero (PSP)
• Cake Mania 3 (NDS)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Mushroom Wars is a fast-paced and accessible RTS, with a quaint, anime-inspired visual style where you send your cute armies into battle, upgrade your mushroom bases, improve your weaponry and fight skirmishes in close-quarter maps.

Aimed at all levels, from those who have never played a wargame before to those who know the history of World War II in detail, this is an entertaining and mentally challenging game of combined arms strategy.  Your armor, infantry, artillery and air units will follow you through the most crucial battles of the Eastern Front.

How about Capcom's Tesla giveaway? That's quite a prize, if you ask me. It's sure worth entering on the off chance you might get lucky.

In case you are totally puzzled by today's quote, it is a line from the latest episode of Castle. It's probably the best in the series yet, full of humor and plot twists.

The heavens opened up big time today, and it has poured most of the day, probably as much in a few hours as it has rained this entire year, and the forecast says it will be like this for a few more days.

We have a pretty busy day ahead of us, as somehow we're going to have to figure out how to attend three press events at the same time. Should be interesting ....

Torchlight is an adventure-themed action-MMORPG which emphasizes a simple and intuitive interface, fast and furious action, and a colorful and compelling game world.

Mafia II immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940s-early 1950s scenario by fusing high-octane gunplay with white-knuckle driving and an engaging narrative. Players will easily become engaged in the game's cinematic Hollywood movie experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing city.

World of Warcraft is an MMORPG experience where players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. In preparation for the launch of its new features (cross-realm chat, create real-life friends lists, communicate across different games, and a whole lot more), all current WoW players will be required to merge their accounts with a Battle.net account in order to log in to the game starting on Nov. 11, 2009.

Yesterday we reported that Oxygen Games (known for titles such as PDC World Championship Darts, Chronos Twins, and various other budget titles) had fallen into administration (Chapter 11) after earlier this year already having sold off all its internal development studios. A day later there is better news as all its IPs, stock and employees are being acquired by former Oxygen boss Jim Scott, who will bring everything under his sales and distribution firm OG International.