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BioWare Contractors Supporting On Games Like Mass Effect Seek To Unionize
25.4.2022
Keywords Studios developers working in support of Dragon Age 4 maker BioWare are seeking to unionize. That’s according to an April 20 application filed with the Alberta Labor Relations Board. The staff is preparing for a union vote following recent labor organizing efforts at other game...
BioWare Shares Small But Encouraging Dragon Age 4, Mass Effect Updates
24.2.2022
Despite the turbulent development roadmap of Dragon Age 4, BioWare announced yesterday that the RPG is in the middle of the production phase. The announcement coincided with the news that a Dragon Age executive producer was leaving the studio. As the blog post tells it, the developers’ morale...
‘BioWare Magic Is Bullsh*t,’ Says Former Dragon Age Producer
19.1.2022
BioWare is mainly known for large, sprawling RPGs with unique characters and worldbuilding. However, it’s also recently garnered a reputation for troubled labor conditions. Anthem, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Mass Effect Andromeda were made under immense amounts of crunch hours. All of that hard...
BioWare To Adopt Remote Work Options For Employees
6.1.2022
With the ongoing pandemic continuing to disrupt life as we know it, especially as the omicron variant fuels an increase in confirmed covid infections, developer BioWare plans to embrace a remote work ethos.Read more
Mass Effect 2 Players Suspiciously Successful At Infamous ‘Suicide Mission’
16.12.2021
Today, publisher EA released its annual “Year in Gaming” report, which details player behavior from across its portfolio of games. Most of the data are relegated to the realms of sports games, Apex Legends, and The Sims 4, but there are some juicy tidbits for Mass Effect fans, too—specifically,...
Mass Effect DLC With Lost Source Code Returns To Legendary Edition Via Mod
9.11.2021
Back in February it was announced that Mass Effect Legendary Edition wasn’t going to be including everything in the trilogy, because the source code for a single piece of old DLC—Pinnacle Station, which we reviewed back in 2009—had been lost.Read more
Next Mass Effect Teased Again With New Poster
7.11.2021
Though it’s not news that there’s a new Mass Effect game in development—it was first shown off in a trailer late last year—this poster BioWare released for the game today is new, and if you’re the type of fan to speculate wildly at the tiniest hints and suggestions (which would be every Mass Effect...
BioWare Reveals 15 Percent Of Mass Effect Players Are Monsters, Don't Recruit Garrus
7.11.2021
Garrus is sexy, smart, and has saved my ass countless times. He might be BioWare’s best character ever. And apparently thousands of Mass Effect Legendary Edition players skipped him altogether. Read more
After Backlash, Mass Effect 3 Devs Say Team Crunched To Deliver New Ending
21.10.2021
Almost a decade ago the internet blew up over Mass Effect 3’s controversial ending, resulting in death threats and online harassment of BioWare developers and helping to set a new, terrible tone for the video game fan/developer relationship in the years since. It also reportedly resulted in more...
Everyone Makes The Same Choices In Mass Effect, Apparently
27.7.2021
Mass Effect is contingent on choice—or at least the illusion of it. Turns out, in playing (or replaying) Mass Effect Legendary Edition, a lot of you who played the remastered trilogy made pretty much the same decisions. That’s according to an infographic BioWare posted on Twitter today.Read more
Mass Effect: Corsair Was A Cancelled Spin-Off For Nintendo DS
6.7.2021
According to ex-BioWare producer Mark Darrah, Mass Effect: Corsair was set to be a first person adventure on Nintendo DS where you’d fly around in a ship, exploring a far-away galaxy.Read more
Mass Effect Legendary Edition Gets A First-Person Mod
30.6.2021
Have you ever looked at Mass Effect? Like, really looked at it? Have you studied every crag in Wrex’s face? Stared Kaidan and Ashley right in the eyes while wondering why you couldn’t leave both of them behind on Virmire? Watched the fish in Shepard’s cabin swim for 80+ hours? Well now you can...
Ah, So This Is Why The Mass Effect Movie Never Got Made
28.6.2021
In 2010, Mass Effect fans got a wild surprise: the beloved video game franchise would be adapted for film, with BioWare playing a hands-on role in its development. Following the announcement, the adaptation was joined by a bunch of exciting names. Avi Arad (known for co-founding Marvel Studios)...
I Forgot Mass Effect 1 Ends With An Electronic Rock Song
20.6.2021
The original Mass Effect tells a story of a small group of aliens and humans working together against the odds to stop a deadly, super-powerful mega-robot from beginning the process that will lead to all life being destroyed. Epic stuff. Yet the final song you hear, played during the credits, is...
Mass Effect’s Garrus Bottle Decision Is Bigger Than The Reapers
16.6.2021
I’ve logged over 500 hours into the Mass Effect trilogy. I’ve freed the Rachni Queen, cured the genophage, rescued the Council, united the geth and quarians, and determined the fate of all sentient life in the galaxy half a dozen times.Read more
Oh, So Mass Effect Forces Me To Kill An Innocent Salarian
8.6.2021
As a series, Mass Effect is predicated almost entirely on choice. Paragon or renegade? Red, blue, or green? To bang or not to bang? But Mass Effect occasionally appears to restrict your agency. For instance, at one point in the first game, you’re presented with a series of choices, and no matter...
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, As Told By Steam Reviews
2.6.2021
Mass Effect is back, and so are the memes.Read more
Mass Effect 3 Easter Egg Revealed After Nine Years
1.6.2021
Nine years since the release of Mass Effect 3 and just a couple of weeks after the release of its shiny new Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster, a long-hidden Easter egg has been revealed.Read more
Musings Of A Mass Effect 1 Newcomer
28.5.2021
Mass Effect Legendary Edition has given me a chance I missed the first time around. Though I’ve played through the other games of BioWare’s long-running space opera—3, Andromeda, and, years later, 2, in that order—’m tackling the first Mass Effect for the first time ever.Read more
Are You A Mass Effect Paragon Or Renegade?
24.5.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more