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Electronic Arts has announced that it is planning to bundle one time use codes with all the sports titles that it launches on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, allowing access to the online content linked with that game. All those who pick up the titles second hand will have to pay 10 do... |
11 May 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2's main character, Commander Shepard, received a gear upgrade today, May the 4th, in the form of new downloadable content, named "The Equalizer," which includes several new weapons and armor upgrades for the hero. BioWare, the producer of the Mass Effect series, says that the new toys will turn Shep... |
4 May 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Industrious PC gamers have sifted through all the sound files of BioWare’s role playing action hybrid Mass Effect 2 and found a set of clips suggesting that Liara T'soni, one of the most interesting characters in the first game in the series and a possible love interest for the main character, might be com... |
22 April 2010
18:21 GMT |
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Developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that Kasumi, the new premium downloadable content to arrive for Mass Effect 2 in April, is set to cost 560 Microsoft Points for those who pick up the space role playing game on the Xbox 360 and 560 BioWare points for those who pick it up on the PC through... |
23 March 2010
05:08 GMT |
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2009 was not a very good year for videogames, with overall sales down and only price cuts making gaming consoles an interesting buying proposition for players. Yet GameStop, the retail chain best known for its used game deals, managed to do well, seeing sales going up by 3.1% to reach 9.08 billion dollars, although o... |
23 March 2010
04:17 GMT |
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We might be on the pathway to a digital-only world where disk-based entertainment is a sign of a long forgotten past but at the moment, full digital distribution of videogames is just a niche for the big publishers. A quick look at the NPD Group numbers for sales of videogames in the United States shows that a lot of... |
16 March 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is already set to get new content via the in-game Cerberus Network, with the Hammerhead tank coming accompanied by a series of missions specifically designed for it.But it seems that BioWare is also interested in delivering some traditional paid downloadable content out, and on April 9, players who have... |
15 March 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Peter Moore was present at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference, which took place in San Francisco and the talk quickly turned to one of the biggest franchises linked with EA Sports, Madden NFL, the football simulation that brings in huge amounts of revenue every year with its August launch. And it seems the vide... |
2 March 2010
14:31 GMT |
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BioWare has announced that it plans to launch a fresh piece of downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 in late March, introducing the new Hammerhead heavy assault vehicle and five missions built specifically in order to show off its capabilities in combat and exploration.BioWare is saying that all those who bought Mas... |
1 March 2010
14:41 GMT |
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This week, we've reviewed New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Wii, written about the possibilities of Mass Effect 3 in the Weekend Reading piece and also gotten another installment of EndGameWeek detailing our gaming choices for the weekend. And we've also got a few select articles from the seven days th... |
14 February 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Florian Totu: 2K Marin launched Bioshock 2 four days ago, and I still haven't even managed to install the game. It's still sitting there, all pretty and comfortable in its case, next to the first Bioshock, which at least I did install. I never really finished the first game in the series, and really didn�... |
12 February 2010
12:31 GMT |
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Sales of videogames declined in January 2010 by 12%, a bad figure but one that looks good when compared to the 21% posted for console sales, in the United States, according to figures released by the NPD Group.Analysts thought that the fall would be of about 5% just a few days ago. And, in a somewhat surprising move,... |
12 February 2010
05:17 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2, the space opera role playing game with cover-based shooter elements that BioWare created and Electronic Arts published, sits in the number one spot of the United Kingdom videogame chart for the second week in a row, showing that the decisions made by the developers to streamline the action and deliver ... |
11 February 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The NPD Group is set to publish its sales figures for both hardware and software in the United States later today and another analyst expects the market to be down when compared to the same period in 2009. Doug Creutz, who is working for the Cowen Group, is saying that sales will be down by about 2% for both hardware... |
11 February 2010
12:51 GMT |
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With the NPD Group set to release its figures for both hardware and software sales in the all important United States market, analysts are scrambling to offer their own assessments of the numbers in order to cement their reputation for being able to foresee the way the market evolves.Michael Pachter, who is an analys... |
11 February 2010
02:58 GMT |
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While we might have attributed most of the initiative to BioWare, it looks like the developer's marketing decision aimed at assuring that as many gamers as possible make a direct purchase of its games, the actual directive to cut down on second-hand title purchases came straight from the top, from Electronic Art... |
10 February 2010
03:20 GMT |
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BioWare launched its Mass Effect 2 some three weeks ago, and while the developer is hard at work with the Expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, that doesn't mean that it forgot its plans for ME2 downloadable content. Aside from all the preorder and retailer-exclusive bonuses, like the extra companion Zaeed Massani ... |
9 February 2010
08:06 GMT |
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In the last few months of 2009, Electronic Arts was one of the publishers that felt a powerful blow to its financial situation and came up with a pretty cruel solution for this problem. The company fired around 1,500 of its employees and completely shut down Pandemic Studios, hoping that, this way, it would be able t... |
9 February 2010
02:56 GMT |
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The original Mass Effect had to put up with some serious accusations as some of its "heavy romance" scenes faced powerful controversies and were attacked head-on by Fox News, a company that went overboard with its criticism and ended up depicting a very distorted reality. In fact, BioWare's Mass Effect was compl... |
8 February 2010
03:09 GMT |
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All through the week, we've detailed our experiences with Mass Effect 2 here at Softpedia in a series of game diaries set to continue in the next few days. But we have also had the time to write an EndWeekGame piece and to deliver another Weekend Reading piece. And, on top of all that, we have assembled a list o... |
7 February 2010
11:11 GMT |
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There's no denying that Mass Effect 2 is a success. It has sold more than 2 million copies and reviewers loved it. And with a lot of people talking about it being a good candidate for the Game of the Year award when 2010 is done in terms of videogaming, some have wondered how it would be classified.The initial a... |
6 February 2010
11:31 GMT |
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While some of the party members I already recruited were beginning to show signs of attachment towards my Shepard, by reaching out to me, trying to convince me to do their personal quests, I was still more curious about the rest of the character line-up BioWare had prepared for me, so I chose to recruit as many of th... |
5 February 2010
12:01 GMT |
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Florian Totu: I'm still wrestling with the second playthrough of Mass Effect 2, looking for different choices to make, but today my attention was captivated by a brighter light. Actually, two brighter lights. One of them was the multilayer demo for Rebellion's Aliens vs Predator, which, at a first look, tur... |
5 February 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2, the space-based role playing experience with strong cover-based shooting elements delivered by BioWare and Electronic Arts, has managed to have quite the impact, despite being out for just a week in the United Kingdom.The videogame has managed to top the software chart and seems set for a good run, aft... |
4 February 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Nor in the first Mass Effect, and neither in the second did I feel like Tali should have been a part of the team that I recruited in order to save the galaxy. If anything, she had a far bigger role in the original ME than she did in this game, but, even so, I always thought is would have been better if I just took th... |
3 February 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 has been out for less than a week and, although BioWare is promising long term support for their space-based action role playing title via downloadable content, most gamers are already thinking about the game that is supposed to end the trilogy, one, which might or not star Commander Shepard and which o... |
2 February 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Any team with a goal as complex as saving humanity and fighting to overcome overwhelming odds needs a good psychopath. That one person that is willing to go that extra mile to make sure the job gets done, that petty morals won't get in the way of their objective. Mass Effect 2 has such a character, and while usu... |
2 February 2010
11:31 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 came out just a week ago, but it already managed to impress both the critics and the gaming community. The faster paced gameplay, the improved graphics and the story that links in such a unique way to the original Mass Effect game have pushed the RPG towards the front seats at any upcoming game-award sh... |
2 February 2010
05:48 GMT |
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BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, are sending word that Mass Effect 2 has managed to sell more than 2 million units since it was released on January 26 in North America and on January 29 in Europe. The hybrid between a role playing game and a cover-based shooter is available for the Xb... |
1 February 2010
13:21 GMT |
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While Garrus might have been recruited to hold my hand for the rest of the Mass Effect 2 game, I really wanted to see what Wrex's follower would be like, so I decided to head towards the Krogan as a second recruitment. I was also rather intrigued to understand that the Krogan that Cerberus sent me after wasn... |
1 February 2010
12:01 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by playing Mass Effect 2, the most recent hybrid between role playing and third person shooting from BioWare. We've got a review of the game up and a Weekend Reading piece linked with its Cerberus Network. And if you are interested in knowing what we've been doing over the weeke... |
31 January 2010
11:21 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is now out in both European and North American markets and early looks at the game are saying that it's one of the best role playing experiences ever delivered to gamers and certainly on par with BioWare's 2009 release, Dragon Age: Origins, although in a very different setting.And one of the m... |
30 January 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: After overcoming some pretty significant obstacles, like the eight-hour power blackout that affected my neighborhood last night, a niggling desire to read spoilers about the game online and a problem with my initial download from GamersGate, I am finally ready to actually fire up Mass Effect 2, imp... |
29 January 2010
14:31 GMT |
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The whole idea of interactive media like video games is to make you feel like your existence matters, that you're having an impact on the universe and not just punching in ones and zeroes. That your decisions acutely have consequences and that you get to collect the rewards of your hard work or suffer the conseq... |
29 January 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Speculating on his true identity, or maybe just enticed by his name, the first character I wanted to recruit for my new team was the Archangel. Knowing only that he was somewhere on Omega, Miranda and Jacob told Joker to plot a course toward the Omega system. Landing in the backwater slum that is Omega, a station rul... |
28 January 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is now released on the Xbox 360 home gaming console and on the PC in North America, with Europe still having to wait until January 29 to actually play the science fiction role playing action hybrid BioWare created and Electronic Arts published.Initial reviews are very positive, saying that the sequel ma... |
28 January 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Video games and movies are starting to become closer and closer to one another, and not just through tie-ins and spin-offs. While there are plenty of movies based on video games and vice versa, some are taking a new approach to the symbiotic relationship between the two. If the movie DOOM had a first-person shooter s... |
28 January 2010
03:27 GMT |
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In yesterday's first look at Mass Effect 2, we paused the tale just as the prologue ended and we were about to be sent on our first mission. With Cerberus believing in both the Reaper and the Collectors menace, The Illusive Man sends us to the last colony to cease its radio communications, Freedom's Progres... |
27 January 2010
12:01 GMT |
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BioWare has officially announced that Zaeed, a dangerous gun for hire and potential party member in Mass Effect 2, is currently unavailable for those players who have picked up the Xbox 360 version of the science fiction role playing game.BioWare is saying that it will take a day or two for the character to be delive... |
27 January 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Released only yesterday in America, and still waiting for a European launch, Mass Effect 2 has already managed to earn a place among the stars. According to both its developer and its publisher, BioWare and EA, Mass Effect 2 has earned an average review score of 97 for the Xbox 360, an average made up from 29 differe... |
27 January 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 has finally been released, and it doesn't take more than three minutes and 12 seconds to get sucked into the game, play for hours on end and forget that you have to get up early in the morning to get to work, and you thus end up being late. Hypothetically speaking. As such, while there are plenty o... |
26 January 2010
14:01 GMT |
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It looks like Microsoft's PR just got back from holiday, and while it's back at work, it might still be suffering the after-effects of shore-leave inebriation. Besides being incredibly enthusiastic about their 2010 lineup, the people over at Microsoft are also wishing us a "Happy New Year!" and, while we si... |
26 January 2010
04:31 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 may have been released just a few hours ago, but there are already plenty of people that have already finished the game. We're not talking about the fanatic ones that got the "private scene" release on Friday, but about the ones that had inside dealings with the game and had the privilege to fiddle... |
26 January 2010
03:52 GMT |
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BioWare has always focused a lot on the story side of its games, with previous title series like Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic, but it has lately begun to take things to another level. It started out small, with the dynamics, character interactions and in-game cinematic storytelling in Mass Effec... |
25 January 2010
03:02 GMT |
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BioWare was quick to show off the fact that the main character of Mass Effect 2, Commander Shepard, might end up dead by the time the player is finished playing him in the new title. But in a world dominated by the save and load mechanic, some fans wondered how the developer could assign significant impact to death g... |
22 January 2010
13:31 GMT |
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It's now less than one week to the launch of Mass Effect 2, the first big role playing experience of 2010. The title developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts will be bigger and better in every way than the first installment in the series and some of the biggest changes will affect combat. It seems t... |
21 January 2010
16:21 GMT |
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While BioWare referred to Mass Effect as a trilogy on several occasions, it looks like ME3 won't grant Commander Shepard his well-deserved rest and relaxation. According to Greg Zeschuk, the co-founder of BioWare, there will be plenty more in the franchise, as the game's universe is just too valuable to let... |
21 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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BioWare used Dragon Age: Origins to take a stab at the concept of multiplayer and community interaction, and it looks like it has learned quite a bit from it. Or at least it has learned enough to upgrade the function and integrate into its next game, Mass Effect 2. The developer has just unveiled the "The Cerberus Ne... |
20 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is set to be released by BioWare and Electronic Arts on January 26 in North America and three days later in Europe, on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC.The development team is quick to point out that the second game in the trilogy is set to fix all that was wrong with the first release, like th... |
19 January 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Mass Effect was a surprising title for a number of reasons: it tackled the space opera concept from a videogaming perspective without using an established license, it tried to marry role playing-like character development to shooter-like combat and established the base for a trilogy sketched out in the minds of its c... |
15 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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