The highly anticipated RPG from Bioware has officially been declared "Gold" by developers today. The game will now ship with no delays on November 3rd for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. The game will also be shipping with DLC packs including The Stone Prisoner, the Blood Dragon Armor and Warden's Keep. All packs adding on to the experience of Dragon Age.

“We’re excited to confirm that all three versions of Dragon Age: Origins will be available to fans on November 3 in North America,” said Ray Muzyka, Group General Manager, RPG/MMO Group of EA, and Co-Founder, BioWare. “The Dragon Age: Origins development team was able to polish the PlayStation 3 version to our high standard of quality and we are ready to deliver the richest and deepest role-playing fantasy experience across all three platforms.”

For those in Europe, expect the game to be hitting store shelves on November 6th.

Zombie fans, prepare yourself for the end of world. Kerberos Studio announced that Fort Zombie, their lite action/RPG PC title will be hitting the shelves in time for Halloween this October 30th.

Nintendo this week decided to spice itself up for Halloween this coming Saturday. Although Castlevania: Rebirth isn't hitting the Virtual Console this week, you at least have something else to play through in the mean time.

WiiWare

• Ghost Mansion Party (Gameloft, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points):
• Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan (Telltale, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points):

Virtual Console

• Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points):
• Golden Axe (Arcade, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)

DSiWare

• PictureBook Games: The Royal Bluff (Nintendo, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points):
• SUDOKU (EA, 1 player, 200 Wii Points):
  

Quite a big list this week, so there should be something for everyone!

To help pass the time until Dragon Age: Origins releases November 3, a $12,500 grand prize will be awarded to each winning team member in a 24 hour gaming event held in London.

It's official. Sony has announced that it will be partnering with the largest movie rental service, Netflix. It will be streaming movies and TV shows straight to your Playstation 3 this November.

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) and Netflix, Inc. [Nasdaq: NFLX] today announced that they are joining forces to make thousands of movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system. Netflix expects to begin streaming via the PS3 system next month at no additional cost to Netflix members in the United States who have a PS3 system.

Today’s announcement pairs two of the most popular and fastest growing home entertainment brands in the U.S. The PS3 system’s installed base has reached close to 9 million units in the United States, and Netflix recently reported 11.1 million U.S. subscribers as of September 30.

You can sign up for info on Netflix for PS3 right at this link.

Via Playstation Blog

Just so we don't miss anything, we're here to bring you the Playstation Network update which went live yesterday. The highlight of the update? The first of the two Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crank in the Time demos hit and features Clank's gameplay.

PS3:

• Trine ($19.99)
• Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee ($9.99) [PS1]
• Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus ($9.99) [PS1]
• Ratchet And Clank Future: A Crack In Time – Clank Demo
• Critter Crunch Demo
• Dragon Ball: Raging Blast Demo
• FIFA Soccer 10 Live Season 2.0 All Leagues ($9.99)
• Lumines Supernova Add-on Bundle ($4.99)
• Lumines Supernova Holiday pack ($2.49)
• Way of the Samurai 3 – Head & Apparel Items
• Guitar Hero 5 Tracks
• Rock Band Tracks

Price Drops:

• Lumines Supernova Permanent Price Drop (Now $9.99)
• Burnout Paradise Temporary Price Drop (Now $14.99)
• Siren Halloween Sale (Full Game Now $29.99, Originally $39.99 – Three Bundles Now $11.99, Originally $14.99)

PSP:

• Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Demo
• Rock Band Unplugged Tracks
• Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee ($9.99) [PS1]
• Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus ($9.99) [PS1]

Check out a list of the downloadable UMD titles for you PSP Go users below.

Even though PC gamers were enraged to find out that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 wasn't going to have dedicated servers, Activision is trying to find a solution. Activision and Valve Software have come to an agreement to ship the latest Call of Duty title with the power of Steamworks. Steamworks will allow for auto-updating, anti-cheating, Steam Achievements and the recently introduced Steam Cloud.

"Steamworks will make it possible for us to have a closer connection to our fans, and enable us to support our community much more than ever before," said Robert Bowling, creative strategist, Infinity Ward. "Steam is the hands down leader in offering a community focused experience on PC and the inclusion of Steamworks has allowed us to deliver the most feature-rich PC version to ever come from Infinity Ward, which at the end of the day will mean the most to our fans."

The PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will launch with 50 Steam Achievements. Gamers will be able to access the game from any computer. Also beginning today, Modern Warfare 2 is available for pre-order on Steam as well.  Don't forget that Modern Warfare 2 is also releasing on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 November 10th as well and is rated M for "Mature".

The release of the Playstation 3 version for Dragon Age: Origins was finally confirmed today during a live developer chat on the Playstation Blog. The game will officially be on store shelves on November 3rd and hit Europe a little later in the month it seems. The game will be sticking with its release the same day as the Xbox 360 and PC versions.

There was also a comment made about BioWare's curiosity in Playstation Home, however, Ray Muzyka from Bioware reiterated that they are "exploring it", but have no plans for an announcement yet.

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Jerry Bruckheimer and Jordan Mechner are ready for gamers' questions about their upcoming film adapation of the Prince of Persia video game series, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Jordan Mechner, creator of the game series, along with the movie's Producer, Jerrry Brucheimer, will be accepting questions on their upcoming movie until 3pm EST on October 26th. Interested gamers can head over to the movie's Facebook Fan page and submit questions that will be answered in videos that will be released the week of November 2nd.

If you're interested, just head to www.facebook.com/PrinceOfPersiaMovie, become a fan of the page and post your question in the most recent note on the site by October 26th.

Highliting the launch of Windows 7 is a pretty big deal. Sega has announced that it will be showcasing a brand new trailer showing the "epic and awesome" features of Windows 7 for both gameplay and graphics of the game. The event is being held in New York City today.

Chris Kingsley, CTO of Rebellion said, “For Aliens Vs. Predator to be an integral part of the Windows 7 worldwide launch is an honour for us. The Aliens Vs. Predator brand is very close to Rebellion’s heart, and when we had the opportunity to revisit the franchise we wanted to push some very big boundaries hence teaming up with AMD and a strong focus on developing the PC version for Windows 7.”

Chris concludes, “We’ve been able to exploit areas never before attempted in 3D graphical terms. For example, the Shader Model 5.0 has provided incredible shadow and depth of field to the game, and also multi-threaded rendering has allowed enormous detail to be built into the characters and environments without incurring any frame rate issues.”

Alien Vs. Predator will be releasing in 2010 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. We'll have the new trailer up on the site for you once it becomes available.