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Tracing the Musical Saga of Mass Effect

Realizing that the score changes quite a bit between the original Mass Effect and Mass Effect 3, Kotaku takes us through “the musical saga of Mass Effect” by embedding and commenting on several tracks that BioWare’s audio team used throughout…

Mass Effect Product Manager Interview

Mass Effect producer manager Nick Clifford took some time out of his day to tackle a handful of questions about his job responsibilities in the latest in-house Q&A to hit the BioWare Blog. As usual, I’ll get you started with…

Mass Effect Producer Interview

The latest in-house Q&A to reach the BioWare Blog is with Mass Effect producer Michael Gamble, who answers a fistful of questions about his personal career and some of the projects he’s been involved with at the company recently. A…

5 Reasons Mass Effect is Better Than Star Wars

Computer and Videogames has penned a familiarly-formatted editorial where they explain their reasons for thinking that BioWare sci-fi franchise is better than Star Wars. Here’s one of them: Biotics are cooler The bare bone idea of the force is cool;…

No Souls Were Sold: An Insider Perspective on EA’s BioWare

VideoGamer is offering up a fascinating three-page read that not only chronicles BioWare’s founding in 1995 to their 2008 acquisition by Electronic Arts, but also provides commentary from some of the studio’s (former) veteran employees who were there when EA…

Mass Effect’s Tali Unmasked, Fans Angry

Gamers have been clamoring for years for BioWare to give them a glimpse of the face that lies behind the environmental mask that Tali’Zorah nar Rayya has been wearing since the Mass Effect series began back in 2007. And, apparently,…

21 Must-know Facts About the Mass Effect Universe

The editors over at GamesRadar have rounded up a list of what they’re calling 21 must-know facts about the Mass Effect universe, which includes such shockers as “the council is stubborn” and “Saren was indoctrinated by the Reapers”. The Citadel…

How Mass Effect Challenged My Definition of RPG

There’s a new opinion piece up on Gamasutra, and this time the author explains why BioWare’s Mass Effect series has forced him to reanalyze his personal definition of what a role-playing game is. Stats and morality meters in a cover-based…