Mass Effect (2007) News

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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Mass Effect fan decodes hidden message from Liara in N7 Day teaser

N7 Day, BioWare's annual celebration of all things Mass Effect, used to be a pretty big deal. Its significance has waned in the post-Mass Effect 3 years, though, and the lukewarm reception to Andromeda did not do much to reverse that trend. This year's November 7 event didn't seem to bring much in the way of big news either—but a little audio decoding revealed a big surprise...
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Guardians of the Galaxy/Deus Ex prequel writer is BioWare's new senior narrative director

s spotted on the Resetera forums, Eidos-Montréal's executive narrative director Mary DeMarle has joined BioWare as a senior narrative director. DeMarle was most recently responsible for creating the story and leading the writing team on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which had such excellent back-and-forth patter between its cast we declared it the new king of party banter. Before that, DeMarle oversaw all things Deus Ex, having been lead writer and narrative designer on Deus Ex: Human Revolution before becoming narrative director for the entire franchise...
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