Dragon Age 2 - Hightown Update, Video Interview

The Dragon Age 2 site has been updated with Hightown, the upmarket area of Kirkwall:

Everyone who is anyone in Kirkwall lives in Hightown, and they give little thought to what goes on in Lowtown other than to complain when the wind drags up the stench from its foundries or ancient mines. People in Hightown feel safe, not because the city's walls are impregnable, but because an invader would need to scale the stairs from Lowtown in order to reach them. Many bloody battles have been fought on those narrow stairs, and in several wars Hightown has held out for months after Lowtown was taken. The wealthy often forget, however, that those stairs are also their only escape.

...and GameSpot UK has a video interview with Associate Producer Heather Rabatich.  The conversation covers the standard ground of the changes they've made to combat and dialogue but her responses are refreshingly off the cuff.