Today the BioWare Store features some new items.
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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
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Mass Effect for Games on Demand shows up on the Xbox Live Marketplace RSS feed and sports some new information about the title and the Games on Demand service.
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BioWare's Casey Hudson has shared more details on the highly anticipated Mass Effect 2 – and revealed that Shepard will be returning for the last game in the sci-fi RPG trilogy.
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Boss Level writes:
I'm sure we all know that Bioware is very consistant with their Mass Effect DLC...
But XBox.com assures us that they will be releasing DLC in some form or another for Mass Effect 2.
Link after the jump.
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GameHounds' Cooper Hawkes writes:

"Bioware is the latest and to my mind greatest stepdad a gamer could ask for. Beautiful looking games, fun to play, well plotted, all around the greatest gaming developer ever created.
Until last night."
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While speaking to BioWare's leaders slash doctors, Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, Joystiq managed to confirm that the second batch of DLC for Mass Effect (that's the first game!) would be announced and detailed soon. According to Muzyka, he was even playing it at the BioWare office slash fortress before departing for E3 2009.

Previously, it was suggested that the next Mass Effect DLC would include some sort of fight club or arena setup. So, lots of shooting in preparation for some real shooting, then.
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earvcunanan of Cheap Ass Gamer writes:

"Ending, 5/17, Buy.com has a buy 2 select Xbox 360 Platinum Hits, get 1 free promotion which includes free shipping."
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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."
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In a bold move to make "greatest hits" console game packaging that doesn't make one want to stab oneself in the retina, Microsoft has apparently deployed new Platinum Hits box art to retail locations.
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Microsoft today announced the expansion of its Classics collection in EMEA to include three blockbuster titles, as it continues its strategy of offering high quality experiences at outstanding value. On 20th March, Halo 3, Mass Effect and Project Gotham Racing 4 will join the elite selection of Xbox360 Classics, with each game available at an Estimated Retail Price (ERP) of just £19.99.
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Eurogamer: ShopTo has told Eurogamer that a two disc edition of Mass Effect will join the discounted ranks of Classic Xbox 360 games here on 20th March.

Our shopkeeper friends heard the news from official distributor GEM. Microsoft is keeping shtum, saying there are no announcements to make, but did confirm the recently-launched US version is part of the Platinum range exclusive to that region.
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Speaking with a panel of others on Gametrailer's show Bonus Round, Pachter commented, "Trust me, Electronic Arts, when they threw out the number 300 million...that is multiplatform, that is not 360 only." And when asked if Mass Effect 2 will come to the PS3, he said, "It has to, has to. And you know, I wouldn't be shocked if Mass Effect 1 came to PS3."

An EA rep responded saying, "The rumor regarding Mass Effect being developed for PS3 is inaccurate," which isn't exactly a denial.
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Mike Bowden at VideoGaming 24/7 talked with an EA rep that told him about the possible Mass Effect PS3 porting rumors, "The rumour regarding Mass Effect being developed for PS3 is inaccurate. Hope that helps."

Maybe they meant that as a rumor killer (they made the usual "no comment" line about the future titles, which in gaming terms means "it's coming but NDA's prevent us from saying anything about it"), but it hardly is, because of the simple fact that the rep's language of "inaccurate".
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VG247: EA has told videogaming247 that any rumours regarding a PS3 port of its hit BioWare space RPG, Mass Effect, are… wrong.

It was expected that the franchise would go multiplatform after EA acquired BioWare from MGS for $860m back in Oct 2007 and rumours of a PlayStation 3 port have persisted ever since.

More after the break.
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A source close to EA has told Second Story Gamer that Mass Effect 2 and 3 will be available on the PS3 as well as the 360 and PC. Also, according to the source, it is "likely" that EA will port the original game to the PS3, to introduce PS3 owners, who may have missed the original game, to the franchise.
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VG247: US retailer Gamestop is advertising a new Mass Effect Two-Disc Edition SKU to be released on February 10.
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Gamezine:

"BioWare will present the iterative level design process of Mass Effect 2 at this year's Game Developer's Conference.

Mass Effect was an exciting action RPG that broke western audiences into a new kind of game. Now BioWare are moving forward with Mass Effect 2, and implementing a new process of level-creation that will be showcased and explained at GDC '09."
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Speaking to VG247 at LucasArts in San Francisco yesterday, BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk said that the team behind freshly-revealed Star Wars MMO The Old Republic will be the biggest team in BioWare's history, as well as confirming some future dev plans and a fairly startling figure regarding the size of the company as a whole.
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Rumors that BioWare will develop Mass Effect for the PS3 have been doing the rounds for some time now. There is a new rumor on the prowl; the rumor indicates that the next iteration of Mass Effect will be coming out on the PS3. At this point it is a tossup as anything is possible with BioWare currently being owned by EA.

According to one of Europe's largest video game magazine, Gamereactor, Mass Effect 2 could be coming out on the PS3 six months after the Xbox 360 version ships. Gamereactor indicates that the source was taken from Gamespot just a few days ago before the information was taken down suddenly.

The Mass Effect on the PS3 rumor has resurfaced a number of times in the past, to be shot down by BioWare. However, with EA taking over the Mass Effect franchise, the chances are good that this series will most likely go multiplatform.
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