‘Mass Effect 3′ finally draws to a close with ‘Citadel’ the final DLC for BioWare’s space opera. …read more
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'Mass Effect 3' Citadel DLC Trailer: This Is The End, Beautiful Friend
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Mass Effect 3: Citadel DLC Trailer
Reunite with your crew and take on a new mysterious enemy in the last piece of single player DLC, Mass Effect 3: Citadel. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Dark Horse Announces Mass Effect: Foundation Comic Series
This weekend, at Emerald City Comic Con, Dark Horse announced they plan to bring another “Mass Effect” comic line to market, “Mass Effect: Foundation.” The series will be written by “Mass Effect 2″ and “Mass Effect 3″ writer, Mac Walters. Walters previously penned Dark Horse‘s brilliant comic series, all of which were set in 4-issue arcs. “Mass Effect: Foundation” will be an impressive 12-issue story, making it the lengthiest comic series for the franchise. …read more
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Tackling the Expanded Universe: How Dark Horse Remains the Best and Brightest
Expanded Universes are big business for video games. Ever since Karen Traviss’ “Gears of War” novels reached the New York Times Best Sellers List, and the “Mass Effect” comic series developed a huge following, more and more video game franchises are branching out into transmedia offerings. These offerings are at their best when they serve to expand upon established events and characters from the game world, giving us a deeper look at what went on behind the scenes. When it comes to video game-based comics and art books, one publisher stands out above and beyond: Dark Horse. Since its founding in 1986, Mike Richardson and crew have sought to shine a light on the expanded universe in a big way. …read more
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Trial PlayStation Plus For Free
If you’re one of the few people who have yet to stump up for PlayStation Plus, we’ve got a very special offer that may just help you change your mind. We’ve teamed up with Sony to give you the chance to trial PS Plus for 30 days, completely free of charge.
PlayStation Plus allows you to download a huge range of PS3 and Vita titles including Sleeping Dogs, Vanquish, LIMBO, and WipEout 2048 for free, which you can keep as long as you’re a PS Plus subscriber. Sony has also just announced that Mass Effect 3, Dead Or Alive 5, and Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (Vita) will be joining the roster of free games in March too.
More PS4 Details, No Vita Price Cut, Witcher 3 Coming to PS4, Watch Dogs to Wii U, Mass Effect 3 DLC
PS4: PS3 games or DualShock 3; used games work, no 4K; no Vita price cut; Witcher 3 PS4, Watch Dogs Wii U; last ME3 DLC; BioShock pass. …read more
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Final Mass Effect 3 Single-Player, Multiplayer DLC
BioWare has announced the final downloadable content for Mass Effect 3 for both single-player and multiplayer.
Single-player gamers can look forward to the Citadel downloadable content, which will be released on March 5th for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC (in Europe, the pack will hit PlayStation 3 on March 6th).
Hemsworth Teams with Mann for New Thriller
Director Michael Mann will soon be helming a new untitled thriller from Legendary Pictures. Chris Hemsworth is set to star in the feature, which will be Mann’s first since 2009’s Public Enemies.
According to Variety, the filmmaker has been developing the project for over a year alongside co-writer Morgan Davis Foehl, who is also working on the studio’s Mass Effect movie. Little is known about the story other than it has to do with “cyber threats and attacks.”
In addition to Mann’s thriller, Hemsworth is currently attached to Warner Bros.’ adventure film In the Heart of the Sea, which Ron Howard is currently eyeing.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Look: The Killing Joke's Joker Statue
My eyes were unable to properly handle the overflowing amount of epicness at Kotobukiya’s Toy Fair 2013 showroom. DC fans are sure to be pleased with the variety of pricey collectibles they’ve got in the pipeline — including the stunning ARTFX+ statues for the New 52 Justice League and a fantastic Joker statue inspired by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke. They also have plans for a Superman statue inspired by Superman: For Tomorrow, a Black Canary piece and even one for the best mercenary ever, Deathstroke.
Kotobukiya’s certainly not leaving Marvel fans in the dust, though. They’re working on a set of ARTFX+ statues based on Marvel NOW!’s The Avengers. And to top it off, they’re being crafted under the art direction of amazingly talented illustrator Adi Granov (best Iron Man artist ever?). Additionally, there was a superb Venom and Spider-Man statue on display, a Jim Lee inspired Cyclops (oh, how I miss the ’90s) and a highly detailed Daredevil. As if that wasn’t enough, there’re more sweet collectibles of Star Wars characters, Isaac Clarke from Dead Space 3 (where he’s of course stomping like a boss) and a few from Mass Effect 3. Check out the images from the showroom below…
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BioWare: Don't Think of it as Mass Effect 4
Calling the next instalment in Bioware’s Science Fiction saga Mass Effect 4 isn’t really fair or representative of the project.
This is the opinion of Bioware’s Community Manager Chris Priestly, who took to Bioware’s forums (via Eurogamer) to say:
“To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here. We have already said that the Commander Shepard trilogy is over and that the next game will not feature him/her. That is the only detail you have on the game. I see people saying ‘well, they’ll have to pick a canon ending’. No, because the game does not have to come after. Or before. Or off to the side. Or with characters you know. Or yaddayaddayadda. Wherever, whenever, whoever, etc will all be revealed years down the road when we actually start talking about it.
Mass Effect 3 Reckoning DLC Leaked by Source Files
Source files from a Mass Effect 3 title update have revealed details about the upcoming Reckoning downloadable content. A post on the Clevernoob forums reveals that some sort of new co-op mode is planned that will draw from the Renegade and Paragon values a player carries in their single-player game.
According to a post on Reddit, the following description for the content has also been leaked from the Xbox Live Marketplace:
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
American McGee's Akaneiro Comes to Comics
American McGee’s latest PC offering, Akaneiro: Demon Hunters — which is currently raising funds on Kickstarter — is getting its very own comic book mini-series courtesy of Dark Horse Comics, also known for their other successful comic book/video game tie-ins like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
Written by Justin Aclin with art by Vasilis Lolos, Akaneiro #1 is the first of three issues to explore American McGee’s re-imagining of the Red Riding Hood legend within Japanese folklore.
Dark Horse was kind enough to provide us with the first look at the first cover for the series and some character design sketches:
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Dead Space 3 Features Mass Effect Armor
EA has announced that anyone who’s played Mass Effect 3 will get N7 armor in Dead Space 3. According to EA, as long as a Mass Effect 3 save file is present, you’ll get N7 armor as soon as you play the full game of Dead Space 3, as seen in the trailer below:
This isn’t the first time EA has done this type of crossover, following Dragon Age armor in Mass Effect 2 in 2010 and Mass Effect armor in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning last year.
Dead Space 3 will hit stores on February 5th. A demo was released today on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Mass Effect N7 Armor Trailer
Anyone who’s played Mass Effect 3 will get a special surprise when they play Dead Space 3.
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Adventures in Tragic Backstory: 'Mass Effect: Paragon Lost' Review
By Jen Bosier, Contributor Most fans of the “Mass Effect” series agreed that Lt. James Vega was a woefully flat character, seemingly added to Shepard’s motley crew for no other reason than to add a celebrity voice cameo. Vega had some interesting nuggets of observation for Shepard, and was playful with femSheps, but overall, he felt like a walking tragic backstory.
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2012: A Miserable Year for Gamers
2012 was a miserable year for gamers. Not because the Wii U didn’t hit with quite the bang we were hoping for. Not because the PS Vita failed to find a healthy audience. Not even because Mass Effect 3 didn’t quite stick its landing. Instead, 2012 was a miserable year for gamers because developers are perfecting the art of making us feel that way – and it’s a good thing.
While there are always exceptions, the emotions and feelings elicited by games tend to skew towards the more superficial end of the spectrum. Happiness and relief at making it through a tough level. Fear of creepy crawlies in a survival-horror game. The joy of discovery and exploration. Likewise, stories and themes dealt with in games usually tend to be bombastic, in the made-for-TV action movie sense of the word. Gameplay aside, most games offer fairly hollow emotional experiences; ones easily forgotten once the adrenaline rush recedes.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Dragon Age Lead Writer Avoids 'Toxic' Bioware Social Network
By Dave Thier, Contributor Bioware writers know a thing or two about Internet rage. Last year, anger over the Mass Effect 3 ending constituted one of the most Box art for the PC 'Collector's Edition'. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) fascinating phenomena in the world of modern gaming. A large group of vocal fans actually got together and […]
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December’s Best-Selling PSN Games
It’s that time again! Sony has released the best-selling games on the PlayStation Network for the month of December, 2012, split into seven different categories.
Let’s jump in.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Opinion: Games As Art – Another Perspective
As the ‘Hollywood’ era of the video game pushes our hobby further and further into the public consciousness, there’s a tendency within our community to champion the idea of games as ‘growing up’ – gaining the ability to be something serious, something meaningful or productive, something that can rival the cultural importance of film or literature.
Games are increasingly regarded as worthwhile relative to how well they can match or exceed the proficiencies of older media. Gaming magazines, blogs and websites regularly point to modern games telling grand sweeping narratives in Mass Effect, exploring deeply emotional themes in Braid and political themes in Spec Ops: The Line, provoking legitimate aesthetic responses in millions of people daily. The aspects of graphical fidelity, sound design, dialogue and rhetorical messaging are also well-discussed in terms of whether a game is progressively worthwhile.
Source: IGN Video Games
The year in tech: Biggest fails, flops, and faux pas
The conclusion to the Mass Effect video game trilogy was supposed to be a grand payoff—a culmination of all the game-changing decisions players had made throughout the series. What players got instead was a lame choose-your-own-path ending, one that didn’t seem to take into account players’ previous actions at all, and the
backlash from fans
was severe. Bioware, the developer of the series, tried to placate players with
supplemental ending materials, but the rage had already boiled over, damaging the reputations of both Bioware and publisher Electronic Arts, and tarnishing a series that is otherwise a masterstroke of big-budget game design.
Source: PCWorld