Bioware and EA have done a strategic withdrawal from the harsh privacy preventing measures they announced a few days ago, with which the authenticity of the game would have been checked every ten days over the internet, meaning that if you don't have access to the internet regularly and you wanted to play it without internet access af more...

Many gamers out there were not really pleased last year by the fact that they were only allowed to activate their copy of "Bioshock" on the PC three times before having to contact the support to reactivate it, all thanks to the implemented SecuROM online activation system which was designed to prevent privacy. more...

According to this post on the Mass Effect community forums, the PC version of Mass Effect has been delayed.

The new release date is May 28 for North America and June 6 for Europe. According to Chris Priestly, Community Coordinator:

We've already reported that Mass Effect for PC will be out in May. Now the exact date was published by EA: May 12. Some other EA release dates which have been changed: C&C 3 Kane's Revenge (PC) on March 27, Battlefield Bad Company (PS3) on June 12, C&C 3 Kane's Revenge (Xbox 360) on June 12.

Remember in October, when Electronic Arts announced that it planned to acquire BioWare and Pandemic Studios for $620 million in cash and $240 in stock? Today, EA confirmed that it has completed the acquisition. more...

Past night, BioWare (Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic) released the launch trailer for their Xbox 360 Action-RPG, Mass Effect, which will be released on November 20th in North America and November 23rd in Europe.

Grab the trailer from GameTrailers.com, direkt links are:

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Update: As we have got only one (negative) comment on this matter, and from a trusted source, this incident obviously was an accident. From the three online shops mentioned in the original news, see below, only NewEgg still claims that Mass Effect is available.

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LucasArts and BioWare Corp. today announced that "they have entered into an agreement to create an interactive entertainment product."
Not much Information so far, but, as Bioware and LucasArts are both teams that showed the ability to create great games, this could get very interesting. Here's the blurb from their press release: more...

Halo 3 may have been the online first-person shooter that Xbox 360 fans were eagerly awaiting, but die-hard role-playing game fans have been eagerly awaiting the release of Mass Effect for the Xbox 360. The game is still on track for release, as Microsoft and BioWare confirmed that the game is gold, meaning that it is in duplication and should reach stores on time. more...