Bioware has announced a browser-based version of Dragon Age: Origins, called Dragon Age: Journeys, developed by “EA 2D, BioWare, and some of the hottest indie talent from the flash developer community.”

We have some big plans for Journeys. The first piece that we are currently building is a 3 chapter, single player, tactical rpg delivered in Flash. Right now we’re hard at work finishing the first chapter, Dragon Age Journeys: The Deep Roads. The game will introduce you to the dwarven city of Orzammar and the Deep Roads surrounding it where the dwarves face a persistent threat from the darkspawn hordes.

The flash game will serve as a prequel to Origins. There is no release date yet for The Deep Roads, but it looks like a fantastic way to play Dragon Age on the go, with some Heroes of Might & Magic-style gameplay.

Let us know what you think.

(Thanks, Digital Battle.)

One of the best word puzzle franchises is back, as Bookworm Adventures Vol. 2 has been released, the third game in the franchise. The original Bookworm introduced us to Lex, the letter-hungry titular character who chomped and burped letter tiles as people spelled out long words a la Boggle. Lex then starred in his own lite roleplaying game as he wandered the lands fighting enemies with words. He’s back again, and this time facing off against his most dangerous foe yet: his evil twin EviLex.

Those of you unfamiliar with the first Bookworm Adventures, gameplay is simple: you combat enemies by spelling words – unlike Bookworm, the letters need not be adjacent. The longer the words, the more damage they do. Players are awarded potions and gem letter tiles depending on how good the word is. Gem tiles may add special damage effects like poison or burning, or even heal Lex’s wounds.

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Gamescampus.com has announced the release of Faction Warfare Player Vs. Player (PvP) combat system for their role playing game, Asda Story. Players can select a faction and that faction will serve as the players allegiance.

Players can be part of the Light, Darkness, and Chaos factions. Players have to pick a faction before they can fight on the Faction War Battlefield. The battlefield pits all of three of the different factions against each other in to capture Fortresses around the map. There can be up to thirty players from each faction for a total of ninety players battling it out. Currently, there is only one map, but there are plans to add more maps.

If you are into PvP style of game play, check out the latest addition to the Asda Story.

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Puzzle Kingdoms is from the same developers that brought us Puzzle Quest. Puzzle Kingdoms is similar to Puzzle Quest, but brings a few different styles of match three game play. There are the same role playing elements available, but instead of going on quests players are conquering kingdoms.

Players have to build their armies and conquor terrirtory to grow bigger by unlocking new spells and infratry units. Players can also discover the hidden secrets by beating the puzzles. Players also have to manage their hereos and units to be able to bring their team to victory.

Puzzle Quest was a fun game and Puzzle Kingdoms sounds like a similar game with enough differences to still be fun and not seem like you are playing the same game over again.

Puzzle Kingdoms is available for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PC.

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Ntreev USA has announced the addition of another character to the action/adventure MMO, Grand Chase. The new character, Jin, will be the 8th character to join the Grand Chase. Jin and the rest of the characters are searching for Luther, the leader of the Silver Knights. As the search entails, Jin finds himself infatuated with Amy.

“Jin is a fantastic addition to the Knights of Grand Chase,” said Chris Lee, CEO at Ntreev USA.  “Next week the North American Grand Chase gamers will experience the speed, strength and force of this melee madman and his ability to really burn things up.”

Jin comes with all new character abilities and can add to the parties abilities. Jin’s special ability is “burn” mode making several new attacks available and boosting his skills and attack power.

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