http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/bioware http://kotaku.com/tag/bioware The people behind Mass Effect 3 will hoist copies of the sci-fi game into space via weather balloons next week. Gamers in Berlin, Las Vegas, London, New York, Paris and San Francisco can track (via MassEffect.com), catch and play them. More »
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Commenter Kinecticdamage tries to shock massively multiplayer online game developers out of their World of Warcraft-fueled haze and on track to create something truly unique and beautiful in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Many people already have access to the Xbox 360 demo for Mass Effect 3, so naturally, there are people recording the thing like crazy and uploading videos to YouTube. Here are just a couple of them. More »
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You've seen the Star Wars: the Old Republic LEGO from Toy Fair, now see the Star Wars: the Old Republic action figures from Toy Fair. More »
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Many of us here at Kotaku like Mass Effect. And as people who like Mass Effect are wont to do, we really like to talk about its protagonist, Commander Shepard. Specifically, we like to talk about our Commander Shepard. More »
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In this new trailer for the fast-approaching Mass Effect 3, we get to see a lot of old scenes played out by a very new face. More »
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Mass Effect 3's less than a month away, but that span of time feels like an eternity. The relaunch of the website for BioWare's sci-fi epic isn't helping either. It's sporting videos that tease out elements of the upcoming threequel from multiplayer to narrative. It seems like they're there to help along people new to the series, but die-hard Mass Effect fans might spot some new details in there . More »
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Let's get that first niggling thought out of the way: this Mass Effect iOS game isn't going to feel like that Dead Space iOS game. More »
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In addition to the the upcoming iOS game Mass Effect: Infiltrator, BioWare also announced an app called "Datapad" that would allow you to "stay in touch with all of the info in Mass Effect 3," check the status of the war in the galaxy map, and even get messages from game characters. More »
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At a press event in New York today, EA announced that BioWare's hit Mass Effect franchise will be coming to iOS as a new game called Mass Effect: Infiltrator, which will tie in with their upcoming game Mass Effect 3. More »
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However you define "Nerdcore," I'd say that once a guy is dropping rhymes about the ins and outs of Mass Effect, he probably qualifies. But let's not get caught up in labels—these tracks, which premiered over at Destructoid, are a goofy good time. More »
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While speaking with Gamerzines, Mass Effect producer Mike Gamble suggested that "it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep your ME3 saves." More »
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So the latest piece of official BioWare fiction is a little rough around the edges. Let's say you want to write your own Mass Effect story. Need some help? BioWare themselves are here to help. More »
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The Mass Effect 3 multiplayer demo requires you to have a Gold subscription because, well, it's a multiplayer game and that's how Xbox Live rolls. Not to worry. Microsoft is giving away " a limited time Gold access" pass to everyone who downloads the demo, meaning we can all get in on the action. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5881532&view=rss&microfeed=true According to EA's third quarter financial results report, BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic has generated more than 1.7 million paying subscribers since its December launch. One wonders if that number was recorded before the game's PVP balance issues began. More »
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Not the toys. And not the Michael Bay horror films. I mean the 1986 animated feature. More »
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Get to know your Mass Effect 3 voice cast, which is a great deal like the Mass Effect 2 voice cast, only slightly older and just a tad bit more Chobot-y. More »
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Mods can make Skyrim look better. They can make Grand Theft Auto look better. They can make, well, just about any PC game look better. Including Mass Effect. More »
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Oh boy. The Family Research Council, acting in its role as wise counsel to all that goes into video games, hath finally noticedeth that BioWare intends to publish a game update to Star Wars: The Old Republic that accommodates same-sex relationships between player characters and NPCs. This didn't go over well with them, because he's a total canon fiend who says there can never be anything gay about Star Wars, ever. More »
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You may think, with all the fighting and decision-making of two games, that you're the one who ultimately controls the fate of Mass Effect's player-created hero Commander Shepard. More »
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It was kind of surprising that Mass Effect 3's multiplayer looked better than expected. But this trailer makes it look like must-play content. You'll see the various races of BioWare's sci-fi universe playing through skirmishes as several classes, with missions that appear to happen all over the galaxy. Does this make you more excited or less for Mass Effect 3's multiplayer? More »
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"I'm 12 and what is this". If you don't know what that means, here. Everybody back on the same page? OK, so we can all have a laugh at this poor guy's expense when he was banned from Star Wars: Old Republic for using the line. More »
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The four series of Mass Effect 3 figurines being offered by Big Fish games Toys (announced back in December) are certainly nice enough collector's items. They will also come with a card (one per figure) promising "access to downloadable in-game content." One figurine is $17.99; a set of four is $67.99. All four series, then, would cost $271.96, or about 32,000 Microsoft points. Ouch. More »
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A fascinating report in the Los Angeles Times about Star Wars: The Old Republic ought to get some attention for pegging the cost of making the massively multiplayer game at $200 million. More »
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Mass Effect 3 won't just bring Commander Shepard to Earth. He/She is going to Mars. Briefly, according to series writer Mac Walters, during an interview last night with Game Trailers TV's Geoff Keighley. More »
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Now that BioWare has instituted fixes limiting the number of Republic and Imperial players taking part in each instance of player-versus-player planet Ilum an uneasy truce has been formed. Now both sides can take turns killing each other for credit! More »
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With yesterday's patch 1.1 player-versus-player debacle stemming a flood of threatened account cancellations, BioWare has released a video showing off what the coming months have in store for Star Wars: The Old Republic, in case you choose to stick around. More »
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Mass Effect 3's PC version is exclusive to Origin. If that doesn't stop you from buying it - and really, it's grounds for complaint, not boycott - you're going to need to know if your PC can run the thing first. More »
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Before Star Wars: The Old Republic's 1.1 patch went live early this morning, player-versus-player combat on the level 50 world of Ilum was slightly broken, with more players focusing on completing non-PVP goals than fighting. After patch 1.1 the zone has been transformed into an Imperial PVP wonderland. More »
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Mass Effect 3 will use Kinect. But how, you ask, will that work? How dorky will I sound yelling things at my TV set? Watch this clip to find out. More »
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While dozens of video games have strived to capture the hearts of Star Wars fans through previously untold tales of epic space fantasy, BioWare's massively multiplayer Star Wars: The Old Republic is the first that's attempted to tell eight stories to thousands of people at the same time. More »
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Don't get me wrong. Mass Effect has its share of class. But, like most things, it could be classier. Enter artist Sean Donaldson. More »
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That quote, dropped by Mass Effect 3 lead writer Mac Walters in the most recent BioWare Pulse developer diary, shows that he is at least very serious about talking about making Commander Shepard show some real emotion this time around. More »
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During the beta test for BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic players with high-end PCs enjoyed stunning high resolution graphics. Now that the game has launched those sexy textures have mostly disappeared. What gives? More »
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The The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim arrow in the knee meme is so 2011. It's now 2012. The future. Time for new a meme. More »
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There's a headline I never thought I'd be writing. More »
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I have a lot of fun ripping on Dragon Age II. BioWare's 2011 follow-up to their epic and beloved Dragon Age: Origins disappointed and frustrated me in many, many ways. More »
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When it comes to epic battles between fictional forces, I generally find myself siding with the good guys. If I were a Transformer, I'd be an Autobot. I'd join G.I. Joe before Cobra. I consider myself more of a Plant than a Zombie. More »
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Who's going to download the January 17 demo for38 Studios fantasy action-RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning? Now that folks that play it earn exclusive armor and weapons for Mass Effect 3, I'd say everybody. More »
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Male Commander Shepherd. Female Commander Shepherd. Good Shepherd. Dickwad Shepherd. The main character of BioWare's space opus Mass Effect can be played a bunch of different ways. More »
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