Mass Effect (2007) News

BioWare lays off roughly 50 employees: 'We must shift towards a more agile and more focused studio'

In a blog post that studio manager Gary McKay said was "deeply painful and humbling to write," BioWare announced that it is laying off roughly 50 employees in order to "preserve the health of the studio and better enable us to do what we do best: create exceptional story-driven single-player experiences filled with vast worlds and rich characters."..
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Get Baldur's Gate 3's spiritual predecessor for the price of a reroll

One of my favorite things about Baldur's Gate 3 is how much it harkens back to Dragon Age: Origins, one of the best PC games ever made. Whether you're infatuated with Astarion, or have fallen in love with Baldur's Gate 3's fantasy aesthetic, Dragon Age is a must play ahead of Dreadwolf - and it's available for cheap in this new Steam sale.

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This Mass Effect/The Office mashup convinced me Michael Scott is the canonical Commander Shepard

I have a confession to make: I've never seen a single episode of the US Office, which remains an opaque and beautiful mystery to me, something I only brush up against when my downstairs neighbours put on yet another episode and the theme wafts up through the floorboards. I have played several hundred hours of Mass Effect, though, so I feel at least 50% qualified to tell you this Office/ME mashup is very well done indeed...
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Mass Effect and more join the Steam Deck playable ranks

The Steam Deck and EA app have not been playing well together in recent times, but the tides have been changing. There are now even more games from the publisher being listed as 'Playable' on the Valve handheld gaming PC, including stonking hits like Mass Effect and the Need for Speed series.

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It's Mass Effect's 15th birthday so the original pitch document is doing the rounds again

Mass Effect is 15 years old as of November 20, and unofficial Twitter account Mass Effect News has celebrated by collecting together some of its prototype art, video, and documents. While none of this is new (the scan of the 2003 pitch document has been floating around on the internet for over a decade), it's still interesting to look back at how much of it changed...
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