BioWare is celebrating Dragon Age Day with a handful of surprises for fans centered around the recently released Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but also recognizes what’s come before. A standalone version of Veilguard’s character creator and a free armor set for the game inspired by Dragon Age II are both now available. Later today, the game will have a new update and you can see the full patch notes for Patch 4 below, which includes a new tool to take photos during the game’s cutscenes, 20+ bug fixes, and new Qunari complexions.

Dragon Age Day was created by the game’s fans to give Dragon Age its own version of N7 Day, the day that celebrates the community of BioWare’s space epic series, Mass Effect.

The biggest gift to players is a standalone, free version of the game’s character creator. For the folks who haven’t taken the plunge into Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can now create a Rook or Inquisitor, before buying the full game and transferring your character over. You just need to make sure you’re on the same platform that you have the creator on.

There will also be the addition of Dragon Age II protagonist Hawke’s armor, body paint, and nose blood smear as …

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Alan Wake 2 was previously announced to be expanded on in the form of two expansions, one of which–the genre-bending Night Springs expansion–launched in June. Now, from the virtual stage of the September 2024 State of Play, we know when to expect the second part of that announcement. The Lake House expansion arrives in October, though no exact date was yet mentioned.

The Night Springs expansion is centered around a Federal Bureau of Control research center that was set up and subsequently fell into disarray and gated off from the rest of Bright Falls before the events of Alan Wake 2. Several in-game notes and bits of dialogue hint about what happened there, though it’s currently one of several lingering mysteries its obsessive community is waiting to understand.

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