While working at Bioware, Casey Hudson made his name as the director of Mass Effect 3, though he left the studio in August last year. Today, Microsoft announced that he will be joining the company as its new creative director.

Casey Hudson, project director on games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the whole friggin' Mass Effect series, has left BioWare. Most recently he was heading up a new series for the role-playing powerhouse. Damn.

Hey Casey Hudson, executive producer of Mass Effect, what are you up to nowadays?

In this very special episode of BioWare Pulse, Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson explains the game's co-op multiplayer system just like he did on Monday, only with pictures. Who doesn't love pictures?

The speculation is over folks! On a recent press trip to check out Mass Effect 3, PC PowerPlay had it confirmed, by Casey Hudson himself, that multiplayer will be a part of Mass Effect 3. Whether we like it or not!

Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson dropped this rendering of new team member James Vega, as a community reward celebrating his 10,000th Twitter follower. Whoever's No. 10,000, thank you for that.

We are 8 months from Mass Effect 3's release and still unaddressed is one critical detail everyone expects the trilogy will at last reveal: the unmasking of Tali.

If you like Mass Effect for its blockbuster moments - the explosions, the futuristic set pieces involving giant alien machines, narrow escapes - this trailer is for you. It represents the Mass Effect 3 moments that might draw in the people who don't play role-playing games.

Mass Effect 3 is getting Kinect support, letting you issue commands with your voice, letting you play the devil or angel on Shepard's shoulder. If that sounds like a feature you want, note that voice command won't be coming to the PlayStation 3 or PC versions of the game, BioWare says.

With the promise of more fluid combat, vicious melee attacks, tougher enemies and a nimbler Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3 is shaping up to be the game Bioware says will be definitive Mass Effect experience.

Welcome to Objection! Where we take the time to go on-depth on current gaming issues, and let you guys continue the discussion in the comments section. In this week's Objection, we're discussing Mass Effect 3, and Casey Hudson's statement that same sex romances would be given more attention.

Mass Effect developer Casey Hudson's announcement less than a day ago that same-sex romances would be given fuller and more explicit articulation in Mass Effect 3 has unsurprisingly ignited a spark among many followers of the franchise.

Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson spoke with UK magazine Xbox World, divulging some mid-production intel about Shepard and company. The info is scattershot; little pieces of unconnected details about many different aspects of the game. Still, they help to create a larger picture of BioWare's vision for the game.

Developer BioWare has revealed some fascinating/disturbing statistics mined from players of Mass Effect 2. Unsurprising is the fact that 80 per cent of players chose a male Commander Shepard for their avatar. Perhaps unbelievable is how long some played the thing.

BioWare's sci-fi role-playing game trilogy Mass Effect looks like it will end on a lighter note than previous entries, a Return of the Jedi to Mass Effect 2's Empire Strikes Back, instilled with more fun, lightness and humour.

Aside from the lack of homosexual characters, I had the chance to ask Mass Effect 2 project lead Casey Hudson at last month's GDC about one thing my friends (both male and female) and I have noticed when we first got the game: Miranda's ridiculously tight outfit.

BioWare's not one to shy away from intimacy in their games, even when it's caused controversy.

BioWare's Casey Hudson, the project director for Mass Effect 2, acknowledged a "tremendous amount of interest" from Hollywood in a Mass Effect film but vows such a movie, if done, will be done right or not at all.

BioWare probably showed a little too much of Mass Effect 2 to press at E3, at least in terms of important plot points that readers may not want to know about. Which means, yes, spoilers ahead.