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It wouldn't be Mass Effect Week if we didn't link one more time to "Mass Effect Massive Interface Fail," game designer Krystian Majewski's incredible three-part takedown of the first game's awful user interface. It's a funny, damning, and wonderfully thorough analysis. If you've never met Honk Shepard, now's the time.
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The following is an excerpt from a newly announced book about Mass Effect.
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Everything is better with comic books. This is a universal truth, and it's doubly universally true for the Mass…
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