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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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Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy "video game photographer" behind the website DeadEndThrills, I've been sharing some of his work each week here. More »
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As a principal artist at BioWare, and before that EA, Rodrigue Pralier has built (and dressed) some pretty badass game characters over the years, up to and including a certain Commander Shepard. More »
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Man, what the heck is this guy on about? He is clearly just trolling for pageviews. I mean come on Kotaku, no one should be nervous about Mass Effect 3. There are so many reasons to believe that the game will, in fact, be the best Mass Effect yet. More »
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I, like so many other video game enthusiasts, am something of a Mass Effect fan. I love the stories, I love the characters. I love the music, I love the constantly improving gameplay, I love my many Shepards. I even love the lore, convoluted and prone to satire though it may be. More »
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Here's a treat for Mass Effect fans. If you've played Mass Effect 2, you'll know that at some point, you run into an old friend from Mass Effect 1 on the colony of Horizon, who depending on how things play out, leaves you a heartfelt letter upon your departure. More »
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The folks at The Sneaky Zebra are making a short film based on the Mass Effect universe, and have sent along three new character trailers for the game. The one up top is for a renegade character named "Hale," which I would imagine (or at least hope!) is a reference to voice actor Jennifer Hale, who plays the female version of the game's protagonist Commander Shepard. (You may recall I had an opportunity to interview Hale at PAX this year). More »
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Mass Effect is a series about making tough decisions, and commenter eatplaysleepmore is really feeling it. He wants to sell his Xbox 360, but doesn't want to lose the accumulated save data for the previous two games. What should he do? More »
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Prop builder Zander Brandt figured the world was short on replica M-29 Incisor rifles from Mass Effect 2. So he went and made one. More »
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To help give their Mass Effect cosplay a little more professional edge, the team at Crabcat Industries commissioned master craftsman Neil Tambini to make this Garrus mask. It's terrifying. In an awesome way. More »
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Each Wednesday brings new comics worth reading. Some of them are about video games. This month, a lot of them are new DC super-hero comics, since that company is re-launching everything. Read on for recommendations of this week's best stuff and for my capsule reviews of DC's second wave of new books... More »
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Yvonne Strahovski is known as both a model and TV actor, but really, around here she's Mass Effect's Miranda Lawson. And that's it. More »
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Commenter Supra5mge spends a great many hours squeezing ever ounce of enjoyment out of his role-playing games. How do your numbers compare to his? Show him up in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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A small but neat feature of the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 was the "Mass Effect: Genesis" comic that allowed new players to go through the story of the first Mass Effect and make all of the decisions that would come into play in the sequel. More »
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In a refreshingly frank interview with Gamasutra, Mass Effect 3 senior designer Manveer Heir shared his hopes that games can embrace more racial diversity and in doing so, tell better stories. More »
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Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the process by which BioWare is choosing an official female Commander Shepard for Mass Effect. In this piece, I went on a flight of fancy about an imagined commercial that would feature a constantly shifting montage of various Shepards, highlighting the customizability that makes Mass Effect so cool. More »
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That little toy replica of Mass Effect's Normandy we showed you a few months back will soon have a twin. But not an identical twin. More »
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For a series with such great characters and great visual design, Mass Effect has sadly been neglected on the action figure front, DC Unlimited only just releasing its first line of Mass Effect 2 figures in April 2011. More »
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With a follow up to his incredible Boba Fett creation, Theo Stylianides throws down a wild redesign of the Mass Effect leader Commander Shepard. More »
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Kotaku reader Shockwaver (not his real name)^[1] wrote, letting Kotaku know that his wife is big Mass Effect. Proof isn't in the pudding, but this Mordin Solus statue. More »
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Every year experts from the fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry bestow upon video game artists the highest honor they can receive — inclusion in the Into the Pixel art collection. Let's take a look at the seventeen pieces that made the cut this year. More »
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Were this a 3D render of Mass Effect 2's Thane, it would be impressive. Thing is, it's not. This is a tangible, old-fashioned sculpture. Get a load of the detail! More »
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Because the PS3 will most likely never see the first Mass Effect, when Mass Effect 2 hit Sony's console developers BioWare had to include an interactive comic to help players make the choices that defined their character's actions. More »
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In today's absolutely flawless, perfectly scupted edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Kadin wonders if gamers have set their expectations so high that no developer can ever hope to satisfy them completely. More »
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You might think Mass Effect is all about the chit-chat, but it's not. The talking and running and sexy times are just filler between lots and lots of shooting. Really, then, it's all about the guns. So let's take a look at them. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5791938&view=rss&microfeed=true Much like Dragon Age: Origins before it, EA and BioWare are teaming up with FUNimation Entertainment to create an anime feature film based on the Mass Effect series. Production has begun, with digital and home releases planned for 2012. More »
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BioWare celebrates the success of Dragon Age II by giving fans that purchase and register a copy of the game online before April 30 a free copy of the PC version of Mass Effect 2. How does the offer work? More »
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The Arrive downloadable content pack for BioWare's award-winning Mass Effect 2 has been unleashed, giving players one last chance to spend some quiet time with Commander Shepard before the trilogy's Earth-shattering conclusion. An hour and a half just doesn't seem like enough time. More »
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Tomorrow, March 29 brings Mass Effect 2's final batch of downloadable content, Arrival, for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Whip yourself into an anticipation lather by watching its launch trailer right here, right now. More »
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I understand that role-playing video games owe their existence to role-playing tabletop games, and as a result, share many of their predecessor's customs and traditions. After all, if tabletop games need to simulate action via numeric values, then it was natural for the first video game RPGs to do the same. More »
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Kotaku commenter Jezuz feels that games set in outer space have become too cold and sterile. He shares his idea on how to liven up the airless void in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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I have a dream. That when a big shooter is released, at least some of its downloadable content caters to the crowd that prefers to game alone. More »
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Commander Shepard travels to the edge of the galaxy to rescue an undercover operative that could have evidence about an impending Reaper invasion in Mass Effect 2's Arrival downloadable content, coming March 29 to the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5783307&view=rss&microfeed=true The British Academy Of Film And Television Arts held its big video games awards night last night, and Mass Effect 2 walked away with "Best Game'. Here are all the other winners. More »
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Hipsters. The scourge of modern times. And also scourge of the distant future, if this wonderful Mass Effect page is anything to go by. More »
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Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Luke874 wonders if we aren't putting too much emphasis on online multiplayer and neglecting games that don't have it. More »
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If there's one thing you can't say about BioWare this week, it's that they've been slack on downloadable content for Mass Effect 2. Over a year after the game's release, and more is still to come. More »
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Which is tougher, the female version of Mass Effect 2's Commander Shepard, or the female version of Dragon Age II's Hawke? When costumer extraordinaire Holly Conrad and crew take on both BioWare sequels, everybody wins. More »
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One of the great unfulfilled dreams of the present hardware generation is the ability to buy full, retail console games online. On the day they're released in stores. More »
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Note: this is the poster for the original 2183 escapades of Commander Shepard and crew, not the 2217 remake. See inspiration here. By pen-gwyn, as seen on Gamefreaks. More »
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