Mass Effect (2007) News

Mass Effect 5 may ditch Frostbite for Unreal, but don't expect it until 2025

Mass Effect 5 is definitely in production, as BioWare confirmed at the Game Awards last year in December, and we haven't heard much about it since then. Now it's looking extremely possible that EA may be looking to use the Unreal Engine to run the new Mass Effect, ditching EA's own Frostbite engine despite it still being used to power Dragon Age 4.

It has long been mandated by EA that all of the publisher's internal games would utilise DICE's Frostbite engine - since around 2016, in fact - despite the significant problems brought by the fact that Frostbite didn't really work well with RPGs. BioWare's Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem suffered as a result - especially in comparison to Mass Effect 1-3, which used the Unreal engine.

Now it looks like BioWare/EA might be considering a return to the Unreal engine for Mass Effect 5. A new job listing for a technical director on the new Mass Effect specifically requires "experience with Unreal Engine 4+" with no mention of any other engines, least of all Frostbite.

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition sold even better than EA expected

It's fair to say, without diving too deep into the soothing warm waters of hyperbole, that Mass Effect: Andromeda did some serious damage to one of BioWare's biggest and most popular game series. Developer BioWare Montreal was transitioned to an EA support studio just a couple of months after Andromeda was released (before being erased completely), and not long after that, plans to continue the story in singleplayer DLC were dropped as well. It was a remarkable failure for one of the year's most anticipated games...
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Mass Effect's Citadel is one of the best virtual cities BioWare has ever created

Everything else aside, Mass Effect’s Citadel is just a great piece of science fiction. This colossal 44km long space station was built generations ago – it’s presumed by the extinct Prothean race, although no one’s really sure. Thousands of years later, it’s now populated by dozens of different species, and has become a galactic hub for trade, diplomacy, and, of course, drinking in its many neon-lit bars. It’s basically a giant floating space city, with 13 million souls living and working there...
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These Dune-inspired Mass Effect posters are dope

There's a new Dune movie in the works, directed by Denis Villeneuve, and saying this will probably come back to bite me in the ass but it looks like it might actually be good. To promote the film, Warner Bros recently released a series of character posters featuring grim, underlit studies of each major member of the cast...
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This free bundle of the Mass Effect OST, comics and art books is only available for a few more days

The deluxe editions of Mass Effect 2 and 3 came with a raft of extra digital content and, now that Shepard's Mass Effect trilogy is bundled together in the Legendary Edition, this digital content is available to download free—for a limited time...
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