Is it just me, or is “The Gilded Age” finally getting good? After the second season’s finale, I bemoaned how much better Julian Fellowes’ American period drama could be if it gave characters the chance to develop and even let some of them fall in love à la Tom and Sybil or Carson and Mrs. Hughes on “Downton Abbey.” With …
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A trilogy remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched by BioWare to EA, but the publisher is “against remasters” and “basically seem to be against free money”. That’s according to Dragon Age series veteran Mark Darrah, who was interviewed by YouTuber MrMattyPlays. Darrah was executive producer on the first three games, but has since left BioWare. The …
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Alongside issues relating to the three RPG’s engines, EA is another reason why you haven’t seen remakes — or even just remasters — of Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Speaking on a MrMattyPlays podcast, former Dragon Age director Mark Darrah explained that BioWare, along with other developers inside EA, run their own finances “to some …
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SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “The Gilded Age,” now streaming on HBO Max. Bertha Russell should be on the top of the world. As “The Gilded Age” ends its third season, Bertha (Carrie Coon) has pulled off yet another social triumph, putting together a glittering evening in Newport that also shattered the restrictions preventing …
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SPOILER ALERT: This piece spoils the Season 3 finale of The Gilded Age. Thanks to Dr. William Kirkland (Jordan Donica), Morgan Spector’s railroad magnate George Russell survived an absolute shocker of a gunshot wound after a delivery man showed up at his work to attempt to kill him. The penultimate episode cliffhanger brought marriage and relationships into perspective for not …
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SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from the season 3 finale of The Gilded Age on HBO. All’s well may have ended well for the newly-hitched Gladys, but the celebration didn’t last long for her mother Bertha. After throwing a triumphant ball that showcased the now happily-married duke and duchess and her newly-healed husband who was shot in the …
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The Gilded Age My Mind Is Made Up Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Photo: Karolina Wojtasik/HBO “And George Russell, who did NOT die, became as awful a husband, as awful a robber baron, and as awful a man as the good old city knew.” I am concerned about George! We’ll come back to it, because first …
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In a fresh interview with YouTuber MrMattyPlays, former BioWare veteran Mark Darrah revealed that Electronic Arts refused several pitches from the studio to remake or remaster Dragon Age: Origins and, potentially, the second and third game, too. I’m not pitching a Dragon Age to EA right now. I don’t know what I’d want to do, to be honest, to go …
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Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah has revealed that BioWare wanted to make remasters of the first three games in the series akin to Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, but that EA rejected the pitch several times. As we all know, Dragon Age as a series seems to be pretty much dead after the disappointing commercial and critical performance of The Veilguard …
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