I wasn’t going to write anything about Mass Effect 3 and the Not-So-Great Ending backlash. I really wasn’t. You’re probably as sick of reading about it as I am. What’s more, I’ve been less-than-enthralled with the Mass Effect games. Saying crass things about BioWare’s beloved sci-fi opera and defending the way they ended it? I must be suicidal.
BioWare released Mass Effect 3 on Tuesday to some pretty stellar reviews, including some from critics who weren’t huge fans of the first two games. Apparently people were buying the hype because the game sold 890,000 units in a single day — and that’s just in North America.
Everyone knows those creepy-crawly planet-slaying Reapers are earthbound in Mass Effect 3, but maybe the alien invasion actually happens before the game arrives sometime this holiday. Place your bets?
From highly anticipated titles like Marvel vs. Capcom 3 to the last part of the Mass Effect trilogy, we’re eagerly playing our current titles in preparation for 2011′s upcoming releases in gaming. Next year’s most anticipated games will not only showcase vast technological advances in animation and new techniques in gameplay, they also remind us [...]
The trailer for the final chapter in Mass Effect series was released during Spike’s Video Game Awards this past Saturday, and I’m already putting it on my Chrismukkah wishlist for next year. Mass Effect 3 is slated to be released during 2011′s holiday season for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC simultaneously, and while it may be a [...]
“The reason the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn’t trust the British in the dark,” – Professor Maximillian P. Arturo from Sliders
“We’re not gonna die. We can’t die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so…very…pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.” – Mal from Firefly
A couple weeks back Lev and I interviewed Dr. Gary Zeschuk and Casey Hudson from BioWare. The interview was pegged around Mass Effect 2, but Lev took it in a different direction and the following is what resulted from such disobedience.
Now that Mass Effect 2 is a critical (a stellar 96 score on Metacritic) and commercial (over 2 million copies sold worldwide in its first week) blockbuster, buzz about a big-budget movie version is sure to heat up. Even though there’s a “tremendous amount of interest” in Hollywood for a live-action Mass Effect, don’t expect [...]
Set to launch in conjunction with Mass Effect 2 in January, BioWare and Dark Horse Comics have teamed up for a 4-issue miniseries dubbed Mass Effect: Redemption. We sat down with co-writer John Jackson Miller of Star Wars: KOTOR fame to talk about space operas and Shephard, among other things.
