In Real Life

These People Made A 90 Minute Documentary About The Mass Effect 3 Ending

Kotaku AU

Man, I don’t want to say another word about the Mass Effect 3 ending, but these folks do — in fact they want 90 minutes worth. This is The Indoctrination Theory, and attempts to explain all perspectives on the ending. It’s pretty definitive.


News

Is Dragon Age III The Game EA Just Delayed?

It’s time to solve a mystery, or at least come up with a viable theory. Yesterday, executives mega-publisher Electronic Arts announces a bunch of financial numbers. They also say that they’ve delayed a “key game” from fiscal year 13 to fiscal year 14, which, for those who prefer to speak English, means they’ve delayed a “key game” from coming out by March 31, 2013 to some time after.


May 8, 2012
News

What The Mass Effect 3 Writers Didn’t Want Same-Sex Romance To Be

Mass Effect 3 became the game in the sci-fi series where BioWare finally opened up the relationship possibilities for players wanting to romance a character of the same gender, with characters Esteban Cortez and Samantha Traynor only available for wooing if you played as a male or female Commander Shepard.


May 7, 2012
In Real Life

Pretty Mugshots Of Mass Effect’s Bad Guys

Indonesian artist Machine56 has come up with these pictures of Cerberus troops from the Mass Effect series, making them available as some rather fetching wallpaper fodder.


May 1, 2012
In Real Life

Let’s Be Careful With The Child-Murder, Ok?

Is there anything worse than killing a child? It’s one of the most reprehensible things a person can do. Not just in real life: Along with Golden Retrievericide, child-murder is one of the most double-secret-ultrabad things you can do in a movie, book or video game.


April 28, 2012
PlayStation

Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Bonus Weekends Finally Available On PS3

BioWare has been running regular multiplayer bonus weekend events in Mass Effect 3 since March, but until now, PlayStation 3 owners had been unable to participate. An earlier statement from BioWare seemed to point the finger at an issue with approval on Sony’s end, leaving players hanging.


April 27, 2012
PC

The Old Republic Expands Into The Middle East And Dozens Of Other Countries

Some 38 additional countries now will have access to Star Wars: The Old Republic, all of them located in the Middle East or parts of Europe. EA today announced plans to extend the distribution in that hemisphere. Subscription prices will vary by country, EA said.


April 25, 2012
PC

Mass Effect 3′s Multiplayer Got Me To Trade My Cynicism For Addiction

I spend a lot of time with the quarian lately; she’s become my favourite. Though if I’m being strictly honest, she’s actually the third quarian. The first two long since reached the limits of their potential with me, and are now off fighting some other battles elsewhere in the galaxy.


PC

BioWare Says The Old Republic Subscription Numbers Aren’t Dropping

When Star Wars: The Old Republic became available last October, the big test it faced was showing an ability to pull away players from the World of Warcraft juggernaut. Neither company wants to discuss the tug-of-war in terms of raw numbers, but Blizzard’s developers have admitted to seeing a dip in subscriptions. What about BioWare, then?


April 19, 2012
PC

Why I Hope Dragon Age 3 Is A Lot Like Dragon Age 2

BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise, like its science fiction spiritual sibling Mass Effect, creates a great deal of passion among its fans. And also like its sci-fi sib, the Dragon Age games attract an enormous amount of controversy and dissent among those same fans.