News! News! Mass Effect 3: Multiplayer has been confirmed! According to a website announcement Casey Hudson confirmed this to an Australian print magazine. The BioWare twitter account confirmed yesterday that multiplayer will indeed be present and the official announcement turned up today on the BioWare website. It’s called Galaxy at War and is 4-player co-op You will fight to take [...]
Welcome today’s news which heralds the start of the weekend. Woo hoo! On Friday 2nd Sep 2011, The London Philharmonic Orchestra will be taking part in a Video Game Heroes concert which will include some of the best symphonic music from Little Big Planet, Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, Angry Birds, Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto in the Royal Festival [...]
BioWare’s Casey Hudson, executive producer of the Mass Effect series has just confirmed on Twitter that, contrary to previous reports, Mass Effect 3 will contain more gay romance options. BioWare has historically been extremely supportive of inclusive game design and writing. You may remember the story from a few months back about a BioWare forum poster complaining that the historical [...]
A new screenshot and a piece of concept art from Mass Effect 3 turned up on Bioware’s Twitter feed last night, along with the news that the game has been delayed until Q1 2012. According to Eurogamer.net John Riccitiello (EA CEO) explained that the reason for the delay is so that Bioware can adjust the game to make it marketable [...]
If you like video game music then you should get yourself down to Dark Delicacies Books and Collectables in Los Angeles [:P -Ed] on 11th June 2011 and meet a load of award-winning music composers. There will be a Q&A panel with the composers from 14:00-15:30, but seating is strictly limited so you will have to book your place by [...]
Now that we’re well into spring and the sheen of the new year is waning, it’s time to give a proper look ahead to the games we’ll (hopefully) be playing. This is by no means an exhaustive list, just some of the titles that are rumoured to be close and have been looming larger than the rest, at least for [...]
In this brand new DLC for Mass Effect 2 Commander Shephard has to save a deep cover agent (Dr Amanda Kenson) who has got herself into a spot of bother in Batarian Space. She’s uncovered something about an imminent Reaper invasion apparently. As everything is to be kept top secret, Shephard will have to undertake this mission alone. This will [...]
I caught up with Mike Laidaw of Bioware over the weekend at the Guardian Gamesblog Live EA event. Being a huge BioWare fangirl, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to get a little one-on-one time with the lead designer of upcoming swords-and-sorcery RPG, Dragon Age 2. Among other things, we talked about the challenge involved in making a protagonist with whom [...]
Bioware’s blockbuster space RPG Mass Effect 2 finally arrives on the PlayStation 3 in the UK on the 21st Jan 2011. Powered by the new Mass Effect 3 engine and featuring 6 hours of bonus missions (that DLC that Xbox 360 owners had to pay for separately!) it is looking like a very tasty proposition. Exactly what improvements using the [...]
Gender in the media. It’s always a fun topic on the internet. Here’s a 2-minute video so you know where I’m coming from. Now let’s talk about games. Over the weekend, a load of game trailers premiered at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Among them were the first trailers for two brilliant role-playing franchises, Mass Effect and The Elder [...]
Hot on the heels of the first image from Bioware’s next major project comes a teaser trailer showing some actual footage.
If you’d asked me about cover art 3 years ago I would have told you that it makes no difference to me whatsoever. I buy games on the strength of publisher loyalty, developer loyalty, demos and reviews, in that order. Sometimes I’ll read reviews which prompt me to play the demo, but I’ll never buy a game on just reviews. [...]
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