BioWare’s upcoming epic-RPG-a-thon Dragon Age: Origins has finally been given a solid release date for PS3. In the US, that is. We still have to apply a bit of assumption and guesswork to get the European date. Nevertheless, it’s November 17 in America, meaning we can assume it’s the following Friday in Europe – the 20th.

PC and 360 owners of the world are getting the rather impressive-looking Neverwinter Nights/Baldur’s Gate half-kinda-spiritual successor earlier, but we of the PS3-owning world have something to look forward to, apparently, in the shape of a Bioware announcement on the Sony version of the game. As the Dragon Age site says:

On Friday Oct 23rd at 11 AM PST, join BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk in a live chat where they have a exciting announcement for the PS3 version of Dragon Age: Origins. After the announcement, they will be answering questions along with the Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw and Executive Producer Mark Darrah about BioWare’s New Dark Fantasy Epic Dragon Age: Origins.

The announcement will be on the PlayStation Blog, so check it out for the details as and when they arrive. 11am PST is 6pm human time, so it’s a bit of a wait until then. Does anybody care to speculate on what the announcement might be? Free cheese with all pre-orders? Life-size Dwarves to attend selected midnight openings for the game? ? Mods? (oh please let it be mods) We just don’t know.