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During the game the player can stumble across hints which lead him to an optional and powerful foe: Gaxkang. This is a reference to Bioware's Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn in which the player could fight the Demi-Lich Kangaxx who brought headaches to a multitude of players because of his sheer difficulty.
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Dragon Age: Origins was parodied in an episode of "Die Redaktion" (The Editorial Team), a monthly comedy video produced by the German gaming magazine GameStar. It was published on the DVD of issue 04/2010.
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The literal translation of the Russian title (Dragon Age: Начало) in English is Dragon Age: The Beginning.
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At the event "GameStar/GamePro Leserpreis 2009" (February 5, 2009) Dragon Age: Origins received the trophies "Best PC Game in 2009", "Best PC RPG in 2009" and "Best Console RPG in 2009" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazines GameStar (PC) and GamePro (consoles).
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On February 8, 2010, EA announced the game has sold over 3.2 million units worldwide.
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It received four awards in Game Informer's Best of 2009 Awards:

• Best PC Game (Editors' Choice)
• Best PC Game (Readers' Choice)
• Best Role-Playing (Editors' Choice)
• Best Role-Playing (Readers' Choice)

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It received two awards in GameZone's 2009 Game of the Year Awards:

• Game of the Year
• PC Game of the Year

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It received five awards in Gamespot's 2009 Readers' Choice Awards:

• Best PC Game
• Best Role-Playing Game
• Best Story
• Best Original IP (Intellectual Property)
• Best Writing & Dialogue

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It received four awards in 1UP's 2009 Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards:

• Best PC Game (Readers' Choice)
• Best RPG (Editors' Choice)
• Best RPG (Readers' Choice)
• The "Great Start" Award for Best New Series

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It received 10 awards in IGN's Best of 2009 Game of the Year Awards (Editors' and Readers'):

• PC Game of the Year
• PC Game of the Year (Readers' Choice)
• Overall Best Role-Playing Game
• Overall Best Role-Playing Game (Readers' Choice)
• Best Xbox 360 Role-Playing Game
• Best Xbox 360 Role-Playing Game (Readers' Choice)
• Best PC Role-Playing Game
• Best PC Role-Playing Game (Readers' Choice)
• Best PC Story
• Best PC Story (Readers' Choice)

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It received two awards in AceGamez 2009 Awards:

• PC Game of the Year
• Best RPG

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It received two awards in Cheat Code Central's 2009 Cody Awards:

• PC Game of the Year
• Best RPG

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It received three awards in GameShark's Game of the Year Awards 2009:

• Game of the Year
• PC Game of the Year
• Worst Use of Blood

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It received three awards in Gamespy's Game of the Year Awards 2009:

• Multiplatform Gamers' Choice Award
• The So Much Blood Award
• The Unlock Your Creativity Award

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It received the award for Best Role-Playing Game of the Year in Yahoo's 2009 Game Awards.
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The game received the award for Best PC Game in Gamespot's 2009 Editor Choice Awards.
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The game received two awards in Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2009:

• Best PC Game
• Best RPG

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One of the loading screens in the game features the following sentence: "If all else fails, go for the eyes". This is a wink to the fans of Bioware's own Baldur's Gate 2. A character from that game, Minsk, urged his hamster companion Boo into battle with the same utterance.
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