14 DAY TRIAL // Developer BioWare, best known for creating the Mass Effect and the Dragon Age series, has offered the first information about a new project it is working on, suggesting that it is somehow linked to the Mass Effect game universe and promising a more complete reveal at the Spike Video Game Awards which take place on December 11.
The company initially sent a Twitter image with a single man standing with a weapon, apparently ready to fire, in an armor which suggests the Mass Effect series initially but does have the intricate design and colors which are associated with it.
Since the image was released the company has also tweeted two bar codes in quick succession.
Intrepid PC gaming enthusiasts at the Rock, Paper, Shotgun blog have translated the images into binary code and then into normal numbers.
The first one pointed to 55.845, which is the atomic weight of iron and suggests a connection with steel, which then leads to the game Shattered Steel that BioWare created.
The second one leads to -128.5 degrees of temperature on the Fahrenheit scale, which apparently was registered on Earth in 1983 in Vostok, Antartica.
A star system called Vostok also appear in the first Mass Effect.
Since the game was announced BioWare has talked about it as being planned as a trilogy.
BioWare is at the moment working hard to complete Dragon Age 2, which is set to be released in March 2011.
The company is also developing the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which will probably arrive in late 2011 or 2012.
Mass Effect 2 is leading the nominations for the Spike Video Game Awards and is poised to take home the award for Game of the Year.
Here's the teaser video which the company has put out, although it does not offer any more information on the game they are working on: