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New Mass Effect 2 trailer showcases the Engineer class and its killer robot
Dec 7th 2009 on Joystiq
BioWare has just released a new trailer for Mass Effect 2, featuring the exploits of strategic tactician "Commander Shepard the Engineer" and his murderous robot. Much like the first game, engineer cl...
Mass Effect 2 ditching elevators for ... load screens
Dec 6th 2009 on Joystiq
Expanding upon statements from BioWare's Casey Hudson earlier this year, associate programmer Thomas Roy took to the developer's forums (requires login) recently to explain how Mass Effect 2 would be...
Mass Effect 2 to span two discs
Dec 4th 2009 on Joystiq
How awesome is Mass Effect 2? Well, if BioWare Community Coordinator Chris Priestly is to be believed, it is about twice as awesome. "You cannot fit this much awesome on one disc," Priestly stated on...
Mass Effect 2 sidequests to benefit from 'handcrafted gameplay'
Dec 2nd 2009 on Joystiq
For such a dark adventure, BioWare's first Mass Effect provided a surprisingly optimistic viewpoint on universal unity. Sure, an occasional crinkled forehead or an extra filongidler might visually se...
BioWare reveals Samara, Mass Effect 2's biotic bombshell
Dec 1st 2009 on Joystiq
With Dragon Age: Origins out the door and making friends, BioWare has switched the Mass Effect 2 hype machine into full gear, inviting us to play the game and provide a peek at some of the new squa...
Direct2Drive prices Mass Effect for $5 on Cyber Monday 2009
Nov 30th 2009 on Big Download
When the folks that run Direct2Drive posted up their Thanksgiving-themed PC game download sale, they held out on one game that would be revealed today to "celebrate" Cyber Monday 2009. Now that game ...
Big Download's 2009 PC Gamer Single Player Game Holiday Gift Guide
Nov 26th 2009 on Big Download
So you are looking for a PC game to give your favorite gamer. But maybe he or she doesn't care to deal with . . . what's the word we are looking for . . . oh yes, "people". They don't want a game tha...
Interview: BioWare's Greg Zeschuk on Dragon Age, DLC, and more
Nov 26th 2009 on Joystiq
Here's a Thanksgiving treat from the vault – we've dug out the following interview with BioWare co-founder (and Group Creative Officer of EA's newly formed RPG/MMO Group) Greg Zeschuk from ear...
EA takes 30 percent off several PC games until Monday
Nov 26th 2009 on Joystiq
EA's online store is running an exciting Black Friday sale, with downloadable PC games getting 30 percent off from now until Monday. We're talking about discounts on a bunch of games here, with stan...
Mass Effect 2 system requirements revealed, restrictive DRM removed
Nov 25th 2009 on Joystiq
We've got good news and great news for PC gaming space opera enthusiasts -- we'll start with the former and work our way up, building a beautiful good news crescendo. So, here's the good: EA recently...
Mass Effect price dropped to $10 on Steam this weekend
Nov 7th 2009 on Joystiq
Were you one of the seven people on the planet who managed to resist Mass Effect's "possible alien nudity" siren call? Prepare for your steely resolve to buckle: The game's only $9.99 this weekend on...
None straight minutes of Mass Effect 2 gameplay [update]
Nov 6th 2009 on Joystiq
Update: Due to a faulty interstellar communications array (read: a misunderstanding), EA has asked us to jettison the footage.Original post:We get the feeling someone at BioWare has proclaimed this "E...
Hands-on: Mass Effect 2
Nov 6th 2009 on Joystiq
click to make more MASSive You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mass Effect 2's newly revealed world, Omega. (Well, apart from the Mos Eisley spaceport, that is.) This is...
The Collectors, and the enemies of Mass Effect 2
Nov 5th 2009 on Joystiq
Here are some of the creatures that will be wiping out humanity in Mass Effect 2: Collectors – an insect-like race, controlled by a single leader, that has access to the technology that "n...
Shepard shoots stuff in this Mass Effect 2 gameplay footage
Oct 30th 2009 on Joystiq
G4 has a fresh new video of Mass Effect 2 goodness straight outta the space oven showing our good pal Shephard doing what he does best: shooting everything in sight. Your Shepard may be different, bu...
Check out new preview of Mass Effect comic's first issue
Oct 13th 2009 on Big Download
Last summer Dark Horse Comics announced plans to release Mass Effect: Redemption, a four-issue comic based on BioWare's sci-fi RPG series. Now the Comic Book Resources web site has secured the first ...
EA Russia lists Mass Effect 2 for PS3 [update]
Oct 11th 2009 on Joystiq
The confusion over whether or not BioWare's second space opera, Mass Effect 2, is coming to the PlayStation 3 has been a fiasco of epic proportions. We've heard plenty of rumor and speculation suppor...
Avatar Marketplace update: Mass Effect dress shirt, Mako RC
Sep 30th 2009 on Joystiq Xbox
Click image for massive size We thought we had a grasp on this month's Avatar Marketplace content, but some late arrivals have just popped up, namely the two Mass Effect items listed in the title of ...
Mass Effect 2's Subject Zero looks awfully unfriendly
Sep 27th 2009 on Joystiq
Man, if you thought Mass Effect's Urdnot Wrex was an uncongenial companion, get a load of the most recently revealed cast member of Mass Effect 2: The skin-headed, sailor-mouthed Biotic known as Subj...
Interview: Mac Walters, lead writer for Mass Effect 2
Sep 14th 2009 on Joystiq
At PAX, we had a chance to catch up with Mac Walters, the lead writer for Mass Effect 2 at BioWare. We discussed everything from the difficulties of penning a story for a game tons of choices to whe...