UPDATE: BioWare’s Mike Gamble has confirmed that these words were not his own, and the original interview from which we drew this information was fabricated. We apologize for publishing this misleading information. The original story follows. The next Mass Effect game has a rough release window of late 2014 to …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 Epilogue DLC coming next week
The fan outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3 was heard around the world, but more importantly it was heard at Bioware Headquarters. And now the free epilogue DLC that they promised would clear up confusion about the ending is due to arrive next week on Tuesday, June 26. …
Read More »Mass Effect 3s Metacritic Problem divides critics and players
Mass Effect 3 is out, and the critics love it. We love it (in a sensible, reasoned sort of way). You guys, being switched-on exemplars of 21st-century gaming, have some great points in the comments as to whether Bioware’s latest lives up to the series’ promise. But over on Metacritic, …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 demo bringing free Gold trial to Xbox Live
BioWare has sidestepped potential backlash from Xbox 360 Mass Effect fans with the announcement that it will augment the February 14 demo with a trial Xbox Live Gold subscription. While this doesn’t mean much to existing Gold members, it will allow Silver subscribers an opportunity to try the sequel’s multiplayer …
Read More »BioWare temporarily bans The Old Republic players for exploiting end-game content
(opens in new tab) Only a few weeks after its release, BioWare has already begun suspending and banning players that go against their terms of service in hopes of keeping a balanced game economy. A number of accounts were found to be credit farming, by exploiting the game “in a …
Read More »Mass Effect 3: Shepard will return to the Citadel in nixed ME2 plotline
Mass Effect 3 will return players to the first game’s Citadel environment, promises the game’s lead writer, Mac Walters. While the Citadel was intended to play a larger part in Mass Effect 2, storylines involving the area were mostly trimmed from the game for plotting reasons. This greatly reduced the …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 multiplayer preview: Hands-on with the sequels most controversial new feature
Are you worried about the addition of multiplayer to Mass Effect 3? So were we. This is a series defined more by its role-playing elements – story, character, world, choice – than by its shooting, and we couldn’t imagine an online mode, competitive or cooperative, capturing that style of gameplay …
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic: Eight hours with the Bounty Hunter
When Star Wars: The Old Republic was first announced, we had nightmarish visions of roughly textured Jedi hopping down long roads and naked dancing on top of the town’s holocon email box. It was then, that we decided we needed to roll a character to combat the masses, someone with …
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