BioWare have confirmed this morning plans to release a free character creator for Dragon Age: Origins - the application functioning entirely separately from the RPG, and due out on October 13th.

The creator will let players excited about the new start tweaking their character ahead of the game's arrival. Characters will then be available to export to the game when it arrives in November.

In addition to building unique characters for use in the game, the new tool will allow you to share images via BioWare's social networking service - which will launch on the same day as the character creator.

We'll bring you all the latest on just as soon as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge