99 problems but a witch ain't one.

It's unfortunate that Witch Hunt, the latest in BioWare's long but less than illustrious DLC campaign for the original Dragon Age, arrives at the same time as Mass Effect 2's wonderful Lair of the Shadow Broker.

Witch Hunt is above average when placed alongside painfully thin predecessors like Return to Ostagar and Darkspawn Chronicles, but when compared to the masterful way that Liara has been folded back into the Mass Effect story, it ultimately serves only to highlight the unfortunate difference in approach that BioWare has taken with DLC for its two blockbusting RPGs.

For one thing, Dragon Age is now actively penalising players for having multiple playthroughs – a staggeringly horrible decision for an RPG. If you've got characters saved for every origin story, plus one for each downloadable chapter, then the game will have started prompting you to delete a character before you can play any new DLC. To clarify – it's not just asking you to clear out some old save files, but to erase every trace of an entire character.

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Mac screens.

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Screens and artwork.

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PS3 beta begins in October.

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I know... Wakfu?

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EA admits Store-based "error".

Update: EA has not released Battlefield 1943 on PC. The EA Store listing was an "error".

"BF 1943 PC is not available. This is an error on EA store. We are working to sort it out," the company tweeted.

Original story: EA has finally released Battlefield 1943 on PC.

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Year-late game costs $15.

EA has finally released Battlefield 1943 on PC.

The game costs $15 from the US EA Store, although there's no sign of it on the European Store yet.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Battlefield 1943 were released more than a year ago. And they did very well, both from a critical and commercial perspective.

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Tolkien its time.

The European free-to-play relaunch of The Lord of the Rings Online has been delayed so that Codemasters can better prepare for the anticipated "massive increase" in players.

Book 2: Ride of the Grey Company and the Free to Play Store will now be available "later than expected".

"We are really pleased with the performance of the game and excited about the response to Free to Play from our players," said Rowland. "Given the complexities and challenges faced in the preparation and implementation of the new store to work within our infrastructure, we feel more time is needed to deliver the high level of service our players have quite rightly come to expect.

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