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Online UK retailer ShopTo has given upcoming EA MMO title Star Wars: The Old Republic a September 9th release date in the UK according to a recent update. Back in january MCV learnt that EA executives were at the time anticipating a September release for the long-awaited game – much …
Read More »Female Shepard gets cover role
BioWare’s Mass Effect series has always tried to remain gender neutral – with equal options for both male and female characters and no discrimination regarding sexual relationships. However, one area in which this has not occurred is with the game’s cover, which has always starred the default male version of …
Read More »Mass Effect 3’s female marketing spin
EA and BioWare is giving Commander Shepard’s female iteration a stint in the limelight when Mass Effect 3 is released. The developer’s marketing director David Silverman confirmed that Ms Shepard – or "FemShep" as she’s known to the fans – will star in an official trailer leading up to the …
Read More »Now BioWare server is hacked
Developer BioWare has confirmed hackers may have obtained the personal details of 18,000 users on Wednesday. Hackers gained illegal access to an old BioWare community server associated with the forums of RPG Neverwinter Nights. They may have taken user account names, passwords, email addresses and birth dates. BioWare said credit …
Read More »18,000 accounts compromised in BioWare hack
Mass Effect developer the latest victim as mindless hacks sweep the industry
Read More »Old Republic ‘a WoW clone’
Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has issued a damning verdict of EA and BioWare’s upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. Claiming that he was "largely unimpressed" by what he described as a "game that’s highly derivative of World of Warcraft" which sports visuals that are "competent but hardly …
Read More »ME3 Kinect targets casual gamers
Publisher EA says it added Kinect compatibility to Mass Effect 3 in order to target the large casual gamer demographic. That’s according to EA Games label president Frank Gibeau, who told Eurogamer he wants Mass Effect 3 to grow the audience and make it more accessible”. He said: We wanted …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 CE explained
Developer BioWare has detailed the extras gamers can expect to see in the Collector’s Edition of Mass Effect 3. The game will come packaged in a metal case featuring artwork of both the male and female default Commander Shephards. Inside there will be a 70-page hardback art book, a limited …
Read More »VIDEO: The Old Republic’s stunning intro
The opening cinematic for EA and BioWare’s upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic has appeared online, and you can watch the entire video below. We’re still none the wiser as to when the long awaited MMO will finally be released. Earlier in the year MCV discovered that EA execs were …
Read More »E3 2011: Mass Effect voice control is 360-only
The voice commands featured in Mass Effect 3 will only be available on the Xbox 360 version. BioWare’s Casey Hudson, executive producer of Mass Effect, has said that BioWare is only bringing voice commands to Kinect because the device’s internal hardware is handling the voice recognition, according to Kotaku. He …
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