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Glory be! I can finally stop tutting as my colleagues casually refer to the next Mass Effect game as 'Mass Effect 4', which BioWare have been quite clear it wouldn't be. I'm a little insufferable as RPS news editor. But! Electronic Arts formally announced the game this evening with a trailer, a tiny handful of details, and a name: Mass Effect: Andromeda [official site].
BioWare have spoken openly about making another Mass Effect game for over a year now (not that it was ever in doubt). They've told us that Shepard's story is over, that it's time for someone new, and that it's not called Mass Effect 4, but that's about all. Surely, one might think, that by E3 2014 they'd be ready to say something solid about the…
Feature: (Mass) Affecting Change
GDC was jam-packed with brilliant talks, and I missed far too many of them because infinity appointments beckoned. One of the absolute best I *did* see, however, was Mass Effect 4 designer Manveer Heir making an impassioned plea to developers for more diversity in games. He gave a talk equal parts well-reasoned and resolute, arguing not that all games should change their icky ways, but…
Just a snippet about something that was more or less a given, but I think it's worth stating and knowing for the record that the next Mass Effect will entirely and definitely steer clear of Commander Shephard. The controversial outcomes of Mass Effect 3 do leave some room for 'what happened next?' investigations, but the three-game plot had tied itself in so many knots by…
See - because it rhymes with "war", and that's a reference to a thing a man said in a TV show 37 years ago. The ever-watchful eye-turrets of Eurogamer spotted that BioWare community manager Chris Priestly took to the studio's forums to declare calling Mass Effect 4 "Mass Effect 4" is "doing it a disservice". It's a game that "does not have to come after.…
