Valve has released their weekly top ten sellers list on Steam for the week ending on November 14.
Valve has released their weekly top ten sellers list on Steam for the week ending on November 7.
This week's Steam Weekend Deal is underway, this time offering BioWare's acclaimed RPG Mass Effect for only $10.
GOONL!NE writes; "While doing just another routine check on The Internet Movie Database, we've come across two surprising films said to be in development and set for release in 2012."
Jay Watamaniuk is backing down from his statement that Mass Effect 2 is "probably" coming out for PS3. But maybe it's just damage control? Let's take a look at what BioWare was saying about rumors of a PC version of Mass Effect back in 2007.
Koku Gamer writes: 'BioWare's Marketing Manager Jarrett Lee has told fans that the reason for next to no announcements on the fate of the original Mass Effect playable cast is for the sake of wanting players "to be surprised at who is available as a squad mate when you play the game".'
Now Gamer detectives have put the clues together and are suggesting that starship commander and occasional actor, Patrick Stewart, may be lending his manly services to the Mass Effect 2 ladies (and men).
A recent Mass Effect forum thread has revealed that a sizable snafu has cropped up among the early adopters of the game's recently released (and still unannounced) Pinnacle Station DLC -- while players can download the intergalactic Fight Club scenario problem-free, the content isn't actually showing up in-game for some folks. Posters in this forum thread report that Pinnacle Station conflicts with the Bring Down The Sky DLC content that was bundled with the Platinum Hits version of Mass Effect.
CVG writes: "BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka refused to rule out the possibility of a PS3 version of Mass Effect during an interview with CVG at Gamescom last week even though we kept pecking.
Up on the marketplace right now is the newest DLC for Mass Effect. Released just minutes ago it is called Pinnacle Station. It costs 400 points and lasts 2-3 hours. Again suprisingly Bioware haven't announced or spoken about this piece of DLC.
WorthPlaying writes: "Mass Effect invites players to take the role of Commander Shepard as they set out on an adventure to save the galaxy from imminent destruction. Wrought with treachery, heroism, difficult decisions and a universe filled with unique and colorful species, Mass Effect delivers a truly compelling storyline. The v1.02 patch fixes various crash and issues, and also works with the Steam edition of the game."
The new DLC for the original Mass Effect, titled Pinacle Station, has been released in Switzerland and Sweeden. Said to offer around 2-3 hours of gameplay the DLC sells for 400 Microsoft Points. Suprisingly this DLC has had little to no marketing from Bioware.
They haven't even got the second one out the door yet, but already BioWare are talking about what the future may hold for Mass Effect.
Vaguely announced via a Twitter post, the second bit of downloadable content for BioWare's Mass Effect role-playing game is still something of a mystery. While the initial announcement promised more details soon, a follow-up post made it seem as though the timing just wasn't right. We recently had the opportunity to ask BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka what was going on.
Bioware's Mass Effect 2 Twitter: Getting the feeling some news about the next ME1 DLC may be coming this week. Keep your eyes peeled. - Evil Chris
Boss Level writes:
GOONL!NE: "Only getting a release in Japan soon, nearly a year and a half after the rest of the world got the game, Famitsu has given Mass Effect 34/40."
GoGamer is offering BioWare's sci-fi RPG Mass Effect for a paltry $9.90, over $40 off the regular price.
Back in February, BioWare revealed that they would release the patch for the PC version of Mass Effect by April. They may not achieve that goal, though.
As you may already know and bitch about, some EA PC games only allow the owner to install the game on five machines. Back in December, EA released a de-authorization tool for Spore which allowed users to switch these five authorizations around between machines. Now they've unveiled a new tool that allows you to do this for over a dozen different games with SecuROM.