Seldom has a game infuriated me so as Mass Effect 3, and it’s not even because the majority of the game is bad. If anything, the remarkable quality of the rest of the game is just the salt in the wound. Mass Effect 3 is around twenty-five to thirty hours of positively inspired gameplay, evocative
Mass Effect 3‘s marketing is getting downright meta. Now we have a short (just shy of a minute) trailer for another trailer, which in turn is (presumably) a trailer for the game proper. We’re going deeper! The full trailer will be shown on February 19th during AMC’s The Walking Dead. It’s hard to say much
Seth Green, Freddy Prinze Jr, Tricia Helfer, and Martin Sheen. What do they all have in common? They will all be joining you on your adventures in Mass Effect 3 coming on March 6, 2012. While some of these actors, like Green and Sheen, have appeared in past Mass Effect games, others, like Jessica Chobot
There’s been talk of a Mass Effect massive-multiplayer-online-game going ’round, much as there’s talk of an MMO any time a franchise is successful. On the surface such talk is often tempting. An open-ended exploration of a favorite franchise! Revisiting beloved locations and characters! Taking part in the ongoing story of the setting! But like many
With Mass Effect 3’s release only a couple months away, BioWare held a private hands-on demonstration of the game’s Kinect support during the Consumer Electronics Show. Mass Effect 3 uses the Kinect to allow players to interact with the game through vocal commands. This neatly avoids the potential difficulty of adapting a conventional third-person shooter
The role-playing genre has begun to stagnate. It’s hardly crippled. Some giants still garner worldwide attention, such as the Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Fallout franchises. Even after the massive spectacle of genre excess that was Final Fantasy XIII, people still anticipate the next title. But these and lesser-known RPGs are islands in a teeming
Bioware FUNimation, and Tokyo-based T.O Entertainment are working in concert to produce an animated Mass Effect feature film due for release next summer. “Over the last few years, we have revealed different pieces of the Mass Effect world through different media,” said Bioware executive producer Casey Hudson. “Extending the story through an anime medium is
Dragon Age 2’s demo has dropped and, as with anything involving Bioware, it’s kind of a big deal. The first game appealed to gamers by playing to more traditional role-playing elements. The game won many RPG-of-the-Year awards and continued Bioware’s run of high quality triple-A titles. The game however, was not without its faults. Bioware,
The new year is upon us, and that means we have a whole year to game before the Mayans return from outer space to harvest us for batteries to power their space dance parties. And what a year we have to look forward to! 2011 looks like it is going to have an impressive slate