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I am the kind of player who always preferred single player experiences and careful consideration of my next move on the multiplayer game modes that required quick thinking and interaction with other players, regardless of the genre. Despite this, I tried the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 when it launched and I quick... |
7 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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BioWare is organizing another free to play weekend for its recent Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG, offering anyone interested a chance to try it out later today. Star Wars: The Old Republic came out last December and, while it's quite popular, BioWare has resorted to offering free-to-play weekends in the las... |
5 April 2012
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Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer is probably one of the best additions in the videogame series made by BioWare. Not only does it increase the lifespan of the title, but it also provides a new experience for fans old and new. I’ve already highlighted the ways through which the online mode makes you try out cla... |
4 April 2012
16:21 GMT |
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After I first played through it, I didn’t much care about the suicide mission that ended Mass Effect 2, mainly because it felt manufactured to allow for too much player freedom and it made some of its inner working too obscure.After I first played the ending of Mass Effect 3 (small spoilers might follow), I lov... |
3 April 2012
10:32 GMT |
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A brand new report has appeared about the upcoming DLC for Mass Effect 3, this time with a Mexican newspaper quoting an Electronic Arts representative who says that any future expansions will only explain details about the ending, instead of changing it completely. Mass Effect 3’s conclusion generated a heated... |
3 April 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Those who are playing Mass Effect 3 on the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft have a chance to use the Kinect motion tracking system to control some aspects of the game, and one leading developer working on the game says the integration happened mostly by accident.
Casey Hudson, who is the leading producer working... |
2 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 delivers a sprawling story with a controversial ending, that sees the protagonist, Commander Shepard, interact with a wide array of characters, from squad mates to friends or enemies. Without a doubt the strongest relationships are the ones you forge with your comrades aboard the Normandy space ship, a... |
2 April 2012
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Players of Mass Effect 3's online mode shouldn't forget to promote some of their multiplayer characters this weekend, as they'll receive special rewards for doing so as part of the Operation Raptor challenge.Mass Effect 3's multiplayer has proven to be quite popular and, thanks to special challeng... |
31 March 2012
03:51 GMT |
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I sometimes feel like a bit of a pervert when playing Mass Effect 3, mainly because Commander Shepard seems very much inclined to listen to the conversations of other people on the Citadel, without giving any thought to privacy, and then tends to even act on the information he finds out via the eavesdrop method. I l... |
30 March 2012
10:20 GMT |
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After a bit of teasing, BioWare has now revealed the full list of details about this weekend’s new multiplayer challenge: Operation Raptor, in which rewards will be given out to those who promote their characters in Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode. Mass Effect 3 has already impressed lots of people with... |
29 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Actual in-game footage has been leaked for the Mass Effect: Team Assault first-person shooter projects, which was initially seen as a spin-off for the space-based science fiction series but ended up being integrated into Mass Effect 3 as a third-person multiplayer mode.
BioWare was eager to expand the Mass Effect un... |
26 March 2012
18:11 GMT |
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BioWare has let it slip what the next Challenge weekend for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer mode will require of fans, as they’ll receive rewards for promoting their online characters.Mass Effect 3 has been very successful and, despite the controversy regarding its ending, it has attracted lots of people both to its ... |
26 March 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 came out at the beginning of the month and people reacted to its ending in all sorts of ways.
Now, after BioWare promised to deliver some downloadable content that will address the ending by “answering the questions, providing more clarity for those seeking further closure to their journey,&rdquo... |
24 March 2012
16:31 GMT |
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BioWare has posted a new update on the pesky face import glitch that's been plaguing Mass Effect 3 players from all over the world, confirming that the next patch for the game will solve the issue.Mass Effect 3, just like its predecessor, allows players to import their characters from previous titles into the ne... |
24 March 2012
10:31 GMT |
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I plan to talk about something that happens in Mass Effect 3 about two thirds in, so please do not read the following article unless you are comfortable with knowing how at least one of the most interesting moments of the game turns out.
One of the more exotic and affecting elements of the Mass Effect universe is th... |
24 March 2012
06:08 GMT |
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After the huge success of last weekend's Operation Goliath, BioWare has now announced that the multiplayer mode in its recent Mass Effect 3 game is going to offer 25% more XP this weekend, as part of the new Operation Fortress.Mass Effect 3, for the first time in the series, features a multiplayer mode and, whil... |
24 March 2012
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Scammers have begun taking advantage of the controversy surrounding Mass Effect 3's ending and are now advertising new downloadable endings for the PC version of the game. Unfortunately, they’re just filled with links to dubious sites and won’t bring any new conclusion to the game. Mass Effect 3 app... |
23 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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The Retake Mass Effect organization and the Child’s Play charity have announced that gamers who are disappointed by the ending of Mass Effect 3 should stop their donation drive after the amount collected goes past the 80,000 dollars mark (60,615 Euro).
Robb, who is one of the main organizers of the Retake Mass... |
23 March 2012
11:20 GMT |
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Blizzard has admitted that quite a lot of its fans have suspended their subscriptions to its World of Warcraft online game in favor of other titles, like the recent Star Wars: The Old Republic, but it’s confident that many will come back sooner or later.
World of Warcraft is still one of the most popular MMORP... |
22 March 2012
19:11 GMT |
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As the fan pressure to change the ending of Mass Effect 3 continues to build up and seems to extract a reaction from developer BioWare, a pair of well-known developers have said that the team has the right to impose whatever ending they want on the players, because it reflects their unique vision for the universe.
P... |
22 March 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Does anyone remember hacking in Mass Effect 2, that excessive simplification which gave the player access to a monetary reward as long as he was able to complete a rather simple yet engaging mini-game that involved matching code snippets based on color? Clearly, the developers at BioWare no longer remember hacking o... |
22 March 2012
11:05 GMT |
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The campaign against the ending of Mass Effect 3 has reached new heights, as angry players have now resorted to reporting developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and BBB (Better Business Bureau) for failing to deliver on its promises.
Mass Effect 3 came out two weeks ago... |
22 March 2012
06:51 GMT |
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I’m the first to admit that during my playthroughs of Mass Effect 1 and 2 I wasn’t that inspired when choosing my character class, as my own version of Commander Shepard was a pure Soldier. Thanks to the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3, however, I’ve fallen in love with all of the other classes as eac... |
21 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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After dancing around the issue for the last few weeks, BioWare has now posted a thorough statement about the controversial ending of its Mass Effect 3 title. In it, Co-founder and General Manager Dr. Ray Muzyka confirms that his team is working on content that should answer questions, provide more clarity and further... |
21 March 2012
11:21 GMT |
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The controversy that has affected Mass Effect 3, mostly centered around the ending of the last game in the saga of Commander Shepard, seems to have reached the highest level of both developer and publisher and to have forced a reaction that defends the game while also reaching out to unsatisfied gamers.
Ray Muzyka, ... |
21 March 2012
11:17 GMT |
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BioWare has just detailed the array of changes that will be made to the Crew Skill system in Star Wars: The Old Republic once the major update 1.2 is released.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is now quite popular among online gamers, but BioWare wants to make the experience even more pleasant by releasing all sorts of u... |
21 March 2012
05:28 GMT |
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The development team at BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that they are launching yet another free weekend for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which will start on Thursday, March 22 and will run until Monday, March 26.
Another free weekend for the MMO was run during last weekend and only th... |
21 March 2012
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BioWare games always let players choose between two moral sides, whether they’re simply called Persuade or Intimidate like in Dragon Age, or stylized like the Way of the Open Palm and the Way of the Closed Fist seen in Jade Empire. In Mass Effect, players can choose between taking Paragon or Renegade decisions... |
20 March 2012
19:11 GMT |
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The Dragon Age franchise is entering its next stage of development and BioWare, the studio behind the role playing series, wants to hear feedback from fans about its next iteration, the oft-rumored Dragon Age III.
BioWare has delighted lots of gamers from all over the world with many franchises, from classics like B... |
20 March 2012
07:31 GMT |
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The multiplayer-based Operation Goliath that developer BioWare ran for Mass Effect 3 during the weekend has been declared a success by the team which organized it, with more than 3 million Brute creatures taken down by the community.
The initial goal for Mass Effect 3 players was to kill one million Brutes, the sho... |
20 March 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode is a truly impressive and quite addictive experience that can deliver, as I mentioned in my last Gamer Diary, some memorable experiences.
Seeing as how some Mass Effect fans may have never played online or have just tried out only a few matches, BioWare has the tough job of con... |
19 March 2012
17:41 GMT |
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BioWare has just released the first statistics about the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3, highlighting the performances of players and sharing some interesting data about their effectiveness in the Galaxy at War mode.
Among Mass Effect 3's most controversial features there is the multiplayer mode, in which pl... |
19 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Rarely have I found a video game that can create an emotion deep inside my petrified heart, but Mass Effect 3 has managed to draw a sigh and a few minutes of contemplation on the theme of loss and regret with nothing more than a few lines of dialog, two character models and a number of suggestions.
On the Citadel, n... |
19 March 2012
11:30 GMT |
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BioWare has yet to reach a decision about Mass Effect 3’s ending, saying once again through an official statement that it’s definitely listening to feedback from fans about the conclusion of the game.
Mass Effect 3 is out for almost two weeks and quite a lot of players have completed its single-player ca... |
19 March 2012
07:31 GMT |
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The Mass Effect series from BioWare might just be the first complete trilogy in the history of video games that knows how to use its own history and make sure that the past is always involved for those gamers who are enjoying its present.
Ever since the first game in the franchise was launched, the development team ... |
17 March 2012
13:41 GMT |
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After teasing Mass Effect 3 fans that it's going to talk about the game's ending soon, developer BioWare has finally revealed a few more things about its DLC plans for the recently released role playing shooter through the voice of its Producer, Casey Hudson.Mass Effect 3 appeared last week and, while sales... |
17 March 2012
10:11 GMT |
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One of the first things that stood out for me when watching the in-game cinematic sequence for Mass Effect 3 was how Ashley, one of the returning characters from the first game in the series, looked in this third installment.ME 1’s Ashley was a little bland, a soldier in the Alliance that translated some of her... |
17 March 2012
06:30 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 impressed us through a variety of things, from its great role playing shooter mechanics to the impact even small choices from previous games had on the story of the new title.
It’s also worth pointing out just how impressive the game is visually, not just because it has pretty graphics, but also ... |
16 March 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I am quite about ready to end my first run through Mass Effect 3 and I am very much impressed with what BioWare has managed to deliver in this latest installment of its space-based saga. There are a few missteps, but the overall experience is really impressive, especially when it comes to integrat... |
16 March 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3’s ending has caused a heated debate on the web and now BioWare’s Chris Priestly has revealed that the studio will finally talk about it soon, after more people finish the actual game.
Mass Effect 3 appeared last week and was a huge success, not just in terms of sales but also critically, al... |
16 March 2012
16:51 GMT |
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BioWare’s Montreal studio worked on the early stages of a Mass Effect first person shooter, called Mass Effect: Team Assault, which eventually became the cooperative Galaxy at War mode from the recent Mass Effect 3.
Games in the Mass Effect series delivered a third person shooter experience that allowed player... |
16 March 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Gamers who have managed to already consume all the class specific content delivered by the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic can look forward to more from developer BioWare in the coming months and should be careful about the choices that they have already made. Gabe Amatangelo, who is the leading designer working on ... |
16 March 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and Dark Horse Comics have confirmed that those who get digital copies of either the Art of the Mass Effect Universe book or the Mass Effect: Invasion series will receive free downloadable content for Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode.
Mass Effect 3 appeared last week and, alongside it, all sort... |
15 March 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 has been out for over a week and, while some may not approve of it, has impressed millions of gamers from all over the world.
While the game may be a guided experience, instead of an open world one like Skyrim, it still manages to portray all sorts of things depending on what players did in previous ti... |
15 March 2012
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The Baldur’s Gate website that was revived back in February now hosts a countdown to some sort of announcement that’s set to happen in around 9 hours. Baldur’s Gate fans lost all hope in recent years, as it seemed that the stunning series pioneered by BioWare completely vanished. After the franchi... |
15 March 2012
06:01 GMT |
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We’ve already talked about Mass Effect 3’s various aspects and gameplay features throughout this Gamer Diary series and now it’s time to take a look at one of the areas where the game has really improved as opposed to its predecessors: humor.
BioWare is famous for crafting all sorts of epic stories... |
14 March 2012
19:31 GMT |
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I really like the multiplayer component of Mass Effect 3 and part of its attraction is the way it uses unlocks, new characters, mods and extra weapons to make the player actually care about his performance in the game and especially the objective-based missions.Despite this I might be more careful when playing this p... |
14 March 2012
10:46 GMT |
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The ongoing saga regarding Mass Effect 3’s ending has reached a new and very interesting point, as fans have started a petition to convince BioWare to change the conclusion of the game. And, in order to really make their effort stand out, they’ve begun donating to charity, managing to raise over $30,000 (... |
14 March 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3, the last game from BioWare and Electronic Arts to feature Commander Shepard and the saga of the Reapers, has been out for about one week and there’s already a controversy ragging about how the team chose to end the game. But Casey Hudson, the leading producer working on the game at BioWare, has ... |
14 March 2012
06:47 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that all those interested in their Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO will be able to try out the experience for free during this extended weekend. The Weekend Pass Free Trial opens on Thursday, March 15 at exactly 12:01 AM Central Daylight Time ... |
14 March 2012
05:15 GMT |
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