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BioWare may have hinted at a set-in-stone date of Tuesday February 1, 2011 as the release date for Dragon Age 2.

A teaser card, with the series trademark logo, is packed in with US retail copies of Dragon Age: Origins expansion, Awakening.

The new content is released on PSN only in Europe for PS3 owners, while PC and 360 owners can pick it up at retail as well as download.

Last month, EA announced a new Dragon Age was in development for Q4 of fiscal 2011 – between January-March 2011 – for consoles, handhelds and PC .

Whatever the case, it looks like this will be one of BioWare’s planned E3 announcements that boss Ray Muzyka hinted at a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks, 1UP.

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EA’s announced the first PDLC for Mass Effect 2 will release on April 6.

Known as Kasumi’s Stolen Memory, the newest and final addition to your team is a female thief who can be added to your team via the Citadel while playing through the game or after finishing the story.

From there, you must help Kasumi on a recovery mission, and take on an art collector who’s gone rogue.

Also included in the DLC is a Locust weapon, a new achievement and more. Price is yet to be decided.

Find more details over at Joystiq.

Thanks, The Hindle

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Never one to shy away from ambition, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux said at GDC today that the third in the Fable series needs to significantly pan previous editions in terms of sales.

According to this IGN piece, Molyneux said in his GDC session today that the game needs to sell more than 5 million units.

This isn’t a financial goal, but rather a way of demonstrating the game’s artistic direction is succeeding.

He said that Fable sold 3 million units on the original Xbox, and Fable II sold more than 3.5 million copies on 360.

By moving away from a traditional RPG system to emphasise action and adventure elements, Molyneux said he hoped to get even more people involved.

Pete dropped more hints as to the title’s Natal functions in his speech, saying the motion camera is “wonderfully adaptive” for the game.

John Cleese was confirmed as voicing the game’s butler today. Some new shots made it out, too, as did confirmation of Twitter support.

Fable III releases later this year.

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A bunch of bods from EALA, who’s previous credits include games in the C&C series, have formed a new studio called Supergiant.

As noted on BigDownload, the new studio is showing off a demo of its first title at GDC this week.

There’s no word on what is actually is, however. Which is substantially less exciting than it could have been.

We do know it’ll be released in 2011 for downloadable platforms, as per the new firm’s website.

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Peter Molyneux’s confirmed during his GDC seminar tonight that Fable III will have Twitter support.

The Lionhead boss confirmed the news earlier, saying how important it was to acquire followers in the game in a similar vein to the service.

“I Twitter now and, you know, I’ve got followers on Twitter,” he said, referring to his new found love for the service.

“That’s an interesting mechanic, and we integrate that into the Fable experience.”

He didn’t quite say it would integrate into the service.

Molyneux earlier detailed some of the usage for the game featuring Natal, as well as confirming John Cleese would feature as the Butler.

New shots just went live as well.

Fable III’s due out later this year.

Thanks, Joystiq.

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Molyneux’s just dropped a mega-quote with Natal for Fable III at GDC, saying the motion camera for the game will be “wonderfully additive”.

He just said during his session for the RPG:

“Natal is wonderfully additive to this experience. I can’t give you specifics, but it’s been a real joy to put some Natal stuff in there.”

Lionhead’s also just revealed John Cleese will be voicing the butler in the game.

The game’s due out in time for Christmas. We’ll bring you more from the session soon.

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Hints of Natal functionality and the use of John Cleese as a butler weren’t enough for Fable III and Lionhead today: the MS studio just dropped a bunch of new shots for the RPG.

They’re on EG.

The shots show skeletons, swords and cogs. So far, so Fable.

The game saw what looked to be a decent session at GDC today, sporting news of advanced rabbit AI (yep), a look at finishing moves and more.

It’s out towards the end of this year.

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Speaking to VG247 US ed Stephany Nunneley at GDC, an Sega rep said that little cosmetic work has been done on spy RPG Alpha Protocol since it was slipped from last year, and instead the time has been used for background upgrades and “tweaking”.

“Sega made a tough decision to have it out this spring,” he said, speaking in San Francisco yesterday.

“If you’d seen it before, the visuals and the gameplay were rock solid back then. We used the time to do a lot of under-the-hood stuff and tweaking, things that you wouldn’t notice unless you’d played it in terms of polish.

“It made for a better experience.”

The anticipated Obsidian game was pushed into spring and then summer, causing much eye-rolling, until Sega finally stuck a June 1 date on it last month.

As Steph was told yesterday, the game is “the thematic flavour of this game is very much Bond, Bourne and 24. It’s a modern-day espionage RPG overlaid with the depth and complexity of a few traditional Obsidian-style hardcore RPGs.”

Looks mint. See the latest trailer here.

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