Learn how to play the Technician healing class in Hawken to keep your teammates in the fight.
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Spiders Studio and Focus Home Interactive launch a massive Mars: War Logs update, featuring a completely re-done story closer to the game's original French origin.
The E3 trailer for Ninja Theory's Fightback
Nintendo releases a new gameplay video showing Pokemon X and Y in action at E3 2013.
Polytron and Phil Fish announce the anticipated follow-up to Fez at E3 2013.
A renewed blight savages the world of Dragon Age: Inquisition, and of course Morrigan makes an appearance. What's she up to now?
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Activision and Infinity Ward present an extended gameplay trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts at E3 2013.
Max Payne 3 slowly dives onto Mac this week
Max Payne 3 is making a surprise appearance on OS X this week.
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Castle of Illusion preview: more than a repaint
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Steel Diver sequel is Nintendo's first free-to-play game
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BioWare still isn't ready to reveal what the mysterious new Mass Effect game is, who it'll star, when it's set, or any of that, but has chatted a little about possible spin-offs. It did cram the fictional world full of an awful lot of detail, after all. Sadly, the mere fact that PR didn't forbid people from musing about their fanciful ideas means that no, we probably shan't get to play a private investigator on the Citadel.
They may have blue skin or scales, but many of the alien species in Mass Effect are essentially humans with a palette swap. Apparently, BioWare considered having a non-humanoid squadmate join Shepard, but discovered that it would have taken away from the rest of the game.
"All party members needed to use a humanoid skeleton," BioWare's Dusty Everman said. "If we'd ever tried to use a non-humanoid, the cost would have been huge. Instead, we took all the development effort that we could have put towards an odd squad mate and made a larger, more polished game."
At this time last year, Mass Effect 3 was still overshadowed by the backlash to its ending, with the Extended Cut announced but not yet available. A year removed, BioWare says it has learned some hard lessons from that, and doesn't intend to repeat them in future games.
Read more: 'A bitter-sweet ending is much easier to watch in a movie' »
Big Huge Games hasn't been able to catch a break. After the studio was shuttered due to the collapse of 38 Studios, many members of that team moved onto Impossible Studios--which was closed after Infinity Blade: Dungeons was put on hold. Members for that team are now making their way to BioWare Montreal, to work on the next Mass Effect game.
Read more: Detailed questions on difficulty, layout, and more »
"Citadel" is a send-off for Commander Shepard and her crew. The final DLC for Mass Effect 3 "offers an entirely different kind of closure for the trilogy" and, according to our review, is a "wholly welcome farewell" for the franchise.
While the DLC isn't free (it costs $15), BioWare is still giving away a gratis gift to fans. The "Citadel" soundtrack is free to download, including twenty new tracks for fans to listen to.
Field Reports provide our first-hand experience with the latest games and expansion packs.
The past year's been tumultuous for Commander Shepard and the crew of the SR2 Normandy. With this last Mass Effect 3 downloadable content pack, "Citadel," the current Mass Effect saga comes to a close, giving the heroes we've grown to love some much deserved rest and relaxation. Like the add-on missions before it, Citadel takes place an undefined time before the assault on The Illusive Man's base. The key difference between this mission and the preceding add-on packs is it doesn't feel at all like something left on the cutting room floor, it's miles above Mass Effect 2's lauded "Lair of the Shadow Broker" and every other piece of downloadable content released before it.
We had heard that Mass Effect 3's final piece of downloadable content, the single-player mission called Citadel, was a large undertaking. But just how large wasn't clear until recently, when BioWare revealed that the content had been split into two parts on Xbox 360 due to size restrictions.
The last multiplayer DLC pack for Mass Effect 3, entitled Reckoning, is coming out tomorrow. To add a bit of hype before its release, developer BioWare livestreamed the pack, showing most of what will be included in the free upgrade, including a playable Collector.
Players who aren't ready to stop adventuring with Commander Shepard and his Mass Effect 3 team will get one final chance to tag along with the interstellar hero. BioWare has announced the final two DLC packs for the game, Citadel and Reckoning.
BioWare is revving up the engines for its next bit of Mass Effect 3 downloadable content, having recently teased it with a pair of screenshots. A title update has now reportedly leaked some more details, including an intriguing multiplayer mode that brings in progress from the single-player campaign.
Read more: Multiplayer brings in paragon/renegade values, game progress »
Mass Effect 3 has already gotten a pretty large round of downloadable content. We know the studio is all hands on deck for whatever is coming next, and the studio has dropped a few clues in the form of screenshots.
It's still awards season, and that means more nominees are incoming. The Game Developers Choice Award nominees have been announced, and a few familiar titles are out in front. Journey has the most at six nominations, including Game of the Year. Other leaders with multiple nods include Dishonored with four and The Walking Dead with three.
Mass Effect 3 marked the final chapter in the sci-fi adventures of Commander Shepard. And boy, did it cause quite the kerfuffle. Fans were outraged by the ending. But, wasn't the outcry a testament to how involved fans became in this universe? Had BioWare not done so much right over the course of three games, the trilogy could have ended with a far worse fate: no one giving a damn.
There are quite a lot of similarities between Dead Space 3 and Mass Effect 3. Both star armored dudes fighting zombie-like aliens in a space-faring sci-fi adventure. And, you can wear N7 armor in both, as long as you still have your save game from ME3.
Weekend Confirmed 169 - Post-E3 Mega Show
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