Mass Effect (2007) News

BioWare's making a new Mass Effect with a "veteran team"

A new Mass Effect game is in development, featuring some tenured developers. Developer BioWare confirmed the news as part of this year's N7 Day.

In a BioWare blog post announcing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, a remaster of the first three games in the RPG game series, BioWare general manage Casey Hudson offhandedly states a new adventure's in the works. "A veteran team has been hard at work envisioning the next chapter of the Mass Effect universe," Hudson says. "We are in early stages on the project and can't say any more just yet, but we're looking forward to sharing our vision for where we'll be going next."

A piece of concept art, viewable in the header, is shared, showing a ship and a crew on some alien planet or other. The last Mass Effect game was 2017's Mass Effect: Andromeda, which got a lukewarm reception. BioWare put out Anthem last year, a multiplayer action-adventure game that didn't fare much better and struggled to hold onto an audience. The studio has since spent much of this year working on a relaunch.

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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remasters original trilogy, coming early 2021

At long last, the Mass Effect trilogy remastered has been officially announced. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition contains the first three RPG games in a handy trilogy, updated for modern hardware.

In a post on the BioWare blog, the studio has confirmed that Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 have been remastered, and will be widely available on all platforms, including PC, early 2021. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will have the base games, and single-player DLC and promo weapons, armour and packs. Everything, the "textures, shaders, models, effects, and technical features", has been remastered and optimised for 4K Ultra HD, with better resolution, and improved frame-rate.

"Our goal was not to remake or reimagine the original games, but to modernize the experience so that fans and new players can experience the original work in its best possible form," Casey Hudson, general manager at BioWare, writes. "It's been amazing to see the adventures of Commander Shepard take on new life in super-sharp resolution, faster framerates, and beautiful visual enhancements."

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition Announced!

One person is all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat it’s ever faced. Relive the legend of Commander Shepard in the highly acclaimed Mass Effect trilogy with the Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition. Includes single-player base content and DLC from Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3, plus promo weapons, armors, and packs – all remastered and optimized for 4k Ultra HD. More details coming soon.

Find out more: https://ea.com/games/mass-effect/mass-effect-legendary-edition

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EA will announce a remaster in "the coming months" (it's gotta be Mass Effect)

A Mass Effect trilogy remaster is coming. No, EA has not yet announced it, but reliable industry insiders have continued to report on it, and the publisher continues to tease a major upcoming remaster. In today's financial results report, the company even puts a soft window on the 'mysterious' remaster's announcement.

EA says that "over the coming months we expect to announce the launch dates of additional fiscal year 2021 title releases, including an EA Originals title and a remastered title." EA's fiscal year on March 31, 2021, so that would put the remastered title out sometime in the next five months.

Early reports suggested that the Mass Effect remaster would likely launch by the end of calendar 2020, though apparently the developers delayed past their initial targets and pushed the game to 2021 in an effort to provide more substantial improvements to Mass Effect 1. EA has said that their big remaster would be launching in fiscal 2021 all along, and it looks like it's still on target to hit in March.

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The Mass Effect remaster is looking real after receiving a rating in South Korea

The rumoured Mass Effect HD remaster has become a bit more tangible now that the Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea has just rated Mass Effect Legendary Edition. VentureBeat reported on its existence back in May, but EA has kept it zipped since then. As is so often the case, though, a publicly available rating has given it away. Mass Effect Legendary Edition is included in a large list of games that have recently been classified in South Korea (cheers Gematsu). You can download the list from the website, and you'll find it listed at 52. With just a single rating, it suggests that the games will be collected rather than available individually, which isn't surprising. A recent attempt to replay the trilogy has convinced me it could do with quite a bit more than an HD makeover. Mass Effect 3 was lauded for big improvements to the action, but now it feels just as unsatisfying as the rest, with none of them having particularly engaging fights—just ones I wish I could get through faster. It was actually after facing wave after wave of Cerberus goons in Mass Effect 3 that I finally packed it in, killing my replay. Some combat tweaks and a shiny upgrade, though? I'd consider making a new Shepard for that. With EA still not spilling the beans, however, we'll have to wait a bit longer to find out the extent of the remaster.