Dragon Age: Origins Tips and Tricks 1
I discovered that by holding down Left Trigger/L2 (brings up the radial menu) you can scan the area for items of interest and in some instances enemies. The names of said items will pop up in the general area they are in. Granted, it's a very short range scan but it is helpful in discovering secret areas and pickups you might have missed.This may depend on your style of play but I

Dragon Age: Origins Voice Actors, or I thought I knew that voice!
Yes, Dragon Age:Origins is awesome, narf, narf, narf...we know Joshua why do you keep writing about it?Because it just gets more awesome!The Grey Warden Duncan sounded very, very familiar but I couldn't figure out who the hell it was. Turns out it's freaking Peter Renaday! The voice of Splinter, about a million video game characters, and bit parts ranging back to The AristoCats. Awesome!Turns

Dragon Age: Origins (2009) First, first impressions.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! That was how I felt about Dragon Age: Origins over the last few days and although I only got a few hours of gaming in I still feel that way. The manual (you know that thing that comes with the game that has been rendered archaic by most games) is dense with 8pt font text. Bioware calls the game, "a modern re-imagination of an epic party

Red Cliff (2008) Dir John Woo
Ever since John Woo came to America he has made movies that are so bad that even with the taste of Tarantino could like them. They suck. Hard Target-sucked. Face/Off-blew. Windtalkers-both sucked and blew. You get the idea. I had pretty much written Mr. Woo off. Fin. I wasn't expecting much of anything from the man ever again.Then I heard drums in the deep about Woo returning to China to

Borderlands trick.
When you continue a game but not after a respawn all the assorted lootable containers are restocked. Pretty neat.Another tip: When you run out of health you have a chance at a "second wind" if you kill something before the timer runs out.