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BioWare Voice Director Interview

The Gaming Liberty offers an interview with veteran voice director Ginny McSwain, who is credited on a score of BioWare titles, including Baldur’s Gate, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II. Retroplayer- Ginny, did…

Ray Muzyka & Greg Zeschuk Interview

Gamasutra offers a hefty interview with BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk about their company’s history, philosophy, DLC, and specifically on Dragon Age II and Star Wars: The Old Republic. You’ve mentioned humility as one of the factors that…

The Mass Effect Covers That Could Have Been

In their visit to BioWare’s Edmonton studio, the guys at GameInformer managed to to snap some photos of preliminary artwork that was being considered for the original game’s cover. It’s interesting to see how the concept slowly evolved to the…

Chris Avellone Interview

Iron Tower Studio’s Vince D. Weller has posted a very interesting interview with Obsidian’s co-founder and creative director Chris Avellone on the theme of choice & consequence. Examples are drawn from Alpha Protocol, Planescape: Torment, the canned Interplay’s Fallout 3…

Recycled Characters in BioWare Games

This is a regular criticism for BioWare titles, but it only seems to have occurred to this GamesRadar US recently, as Dragon Age II’s release spurred the creation of an article on similar characters across both Dragon Ages, both Mass Effects, Jade Empire…

Dragon Age vs. Mass Effect

BioWare’s Dragon Age and Mass Effect series are pitted against one another in a new editorial penned by the editors at The Koalition. The winner of the character development department? Mass Effect: Mass Effect did something that hadn’t been seen…

Mass Effect For $5, Mass Effect 2 For $10

For today’s “EA Week” sale, Steam offers us a chance to pick up Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition for as much as 75% off. I’m not sure that the bonus content that comes…

Five Reasons to Hate Mass Effect

Games Radar editorializes on “one of the greatest series of this console generation”, enumerating a total of five noticeable weaknesses in Mass Effect 1 and 2, including one that always kind of bugged me. 5. Only girls can be gay in…