Aug 18, 2010

The news all PS3 owners have been waiting for since EA acquired Bioware has finally happened. Mass Effect 2 will be coming to PlayStation 3 in January 2011. The PlayStation 3 edition will include the full Mass Effect 2 game and hours of bonus content. The only problem for PS3 owners is – where is Mass Effect 1? The series is set to be a trilogy and PS3...

Are videogames still “games,” or is this word and many like it outdated terminology passed down from our hobby’s earliest of days? Certainly, videogames have progressed since their earliest, primordial hours. Gone are the days when one large, rectangular “ball” bounced off of two other larger, rectangular blocks. The medium has advanced to the...

Apr 19, 2010

I have grown bored with conventional cinema. It isn’t because it’s the same story again and again. It isn’t because I think the actors’ personal lives seem to be bigger than their line of work. It isn’t anything like that. It’s because after a century of work, the industry seems to have done all it can do. Movies are...

Done everything in Mass Effect 2 and want a little bit more? Of course you do, it’s probably turned you into the gaming equivalent of a drug addict thirsty for more. Well, lucky us then, as BioWare have just announced the Firewalker DLC pack due for release in late March. As if this wasn’t nice enough already, the pack will be free of charge to all of us...

In the first part of this article we looked at some of the ways in which Mass Effect may have fallen flat or disappointed. But in part two we plan to set the record straight, Mass Effect 2 is a fantastic game brimming with good ideas and excellent writing. A few mistakes or missteps along the way don’t change that. As with the previous part of the article,...