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News Mass Effect: Andromeda Has a Crazy Amount of Dialogue
As you'd expect
Mass Effect: Andromeda will have "over 1,200" speaking characters, according to creative director Mac Walters. When you stop to think about it, that's a lot of chatty extraterrestrials. During a recent livestream, the BioWare boss said "when you look at the dialogue options, we're basically the equivalent of Mass Effect 2 and 3 put...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda's Marketing Machine Finally Kicks Into Gear with a Good Trailer
And it's the launch one
Now you see, if Mass Effect: Andromeda had been revealed with a trailer like this, we wouldn't have had to rag on the game's marketing for the past year and a half. EA and BioWare have left it late, but we finally have a great trailer to get us hyped for the upcoming release. Why the heck has it taken this long? Head shaking...
News Take a Tour of Mass Effect: Andromeda's Version of the Citadel
Home sweet home
Those lucky sods over at IGN have got another video first for Mass Effect: Andromeda, this time taking us on a tour of the Nexus, which is essentially this game's version of the Citadel from the trilogy. It's got everything you'd expect: social areas, research labs, and a commercial district, but the twist here is that the Nexus...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Will Get Free Multiplayer DLC
Just like Mass Effect 3
It seems as though BioWare has some steady plans in place for Mass Effect: Andromeda's multiplayer component, as GM Aaryn Flynn has revealed that the co-op portion of the release will be "just like Mass Effect 3". That supposedly means free downloadable content in the form of new maps, equipment, and characters, as well as...
News Here's the First 13 Minutes of Mass Effect: Andromeda
If you're into that kind of thing
IGN have uploaded another first look video, this time sharing the initial 13 minutes of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Obviously, there are early story spoilers here, so if you're looking to play the upcoming sci-fi title blind, then we'd advise against clicking that play button. For everyone else, though, you should find...
News New Mass Effect: Andromeda Trailer Is All About Exploration, the 'Heart of the Game'
The final frontier
Mass Effect: Andromeda has popped out another gameplay trailer, this time focusing on exploration and discovery - the "heart of the game", says the narrator. The video shows a load of new footage as Ryder and the team go about their business on an especially dusty planet. It looks like it'd be quite a nice place if it didn't bake...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Beta Cancellation Explained, BioWare Apologises
Space race
In case you missed the earlier news, BioWare has cancelled the Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer beta. Potential participants signed up for the beta a while ago, but a confirmed starting date never came. The cancellation came as a bit of a surprise, but with the full release now only a few weeks away, we suppose that it makes some degree...
News By the Way, Mass Effect: Andromeda's Mutliplayer Beta Is Never Happening
Oh
Just like some of you, we've been patiently waiting to hear about the long awaited Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer beta, but our hopes and dreams have just been shot to pieces by a BioWare blog post. In said post, the Canadian developer casually writes "while we will have live multiplayer at PAX East, there will no longer be a multiplayer tech...
News Here's 20 Minutes of Mass Effect: Andromeda Mission Gameplay
Space ace
Fair warning: There are obviously some optional story spoilers in the video that we've embedded below. Watch at your own risk and all that. IGN's grabbed almost 20 whole minutes of Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay, taken directly from one of your squadmate's loyalty missions. The footage features a bit of everything, including dialogue,...
News BioWare Confirms Mass Effect: Andromeda Is Ready For Takeoff
Sci-fi RPG goes gold
Crack open a few bottles of space beer and get ready to chat up some aliens at the wrap party, because Mass Effect: Andromeda has gone gold. Developer BioWare has confirmed over on Twitter that the anticipated sci-fi role-playing release is ready to ship, meaning that the game ain't going to get delayed again. Hurrah! Andromeda...
News Mass Effect: Andomeda Details Its Deep Skill System and Squad Tactics
Now we're cooking
BioWare's released a second Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay information trailer, this time focusing on skills, favourites, and squad tactics. As was the case in the previous video, the sci-fi title is really starting to show promise. The revamped skill system seems to have a good amount of depth to it, as you're able to pick and...
News Combat in Mass Effect: Andromeda Looks Like a Huge Step Forward For the Series
New gameplay trailer reveals all
As far as we're concerned, Mass Effect's trademark blend of third person cover shooting and unique class-based abilities has gotten better and better with each instalment. Although Mass Effect 3's combat was still a little clunky, it had enough punch to it that it felt like a solid step in the right direction - and...
News Narrative Difficulty Returns to Mass Effect: Andromeda for Those Who Just Want Story
Insanity is back as well
Much like Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect: Andromeda will feature a very easy difficulty option named 'Narrative', lead designer Ian Frazier has revealed over on Twitter. In Mass Effect 3, Narrative Mode made Shepard incredibly hard to kill - you'd essentially have to position the protagonist in front of a group of enemies and...
News Don't Call Mass Effect: Andromeda an Open World Game
Producer stresses that it isn't one
Mass Effect: Andromeda ain't no open world adventure, producer Mike Gamble has told to the Official Xbox Magazine in an interview. "I definitely wouldn't call Andromeda an open world game," Gamble states. Instead, he refers to Andromeda as "an exploration-based game", and goes on to suggest that this approach...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Beta Registration Closed, We'll Hear More Soon
Galactic readiness
BioWare's revealed that registration for the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer beta has closed. There was some speculation that the beta was set to begin last month, but obviously that never happened. Given that Andromeda is out in March, we think it's safe to assume that the beta's scheduled to start sooner rather than...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Looking to The Witcher Rather than Dragon Age for Side Quests
Probably a good thing
When Dragon Age: Inquisition launched on PlayStation 4 in 2014, we were confident that it was one of the best role-playing games on the console - mostly because there wasn't much competition. In 2015, however, it more than met its match; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt basically blew it away in almost every department. There was one...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda's Dialogue System Sounds a Lot Better for Role-Playing
Decisions, decisions
We've known for a long time that Mass Effect: Andromeda won't have the trilogy's Paragon and Renegade dialogue system - and that's probably a good thing. In the original three games, Commander Shepard's personality was shaped by either being an agent of righteous justice or a ruthless operative who got the job done no matter the...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda's Pre-Order Trailer Gives First Glimpse of Multiplayer
Blink and you'll miss it
Get hype, people - you're about to see a whole 1.5 seconds of Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer footage. We know, we know, we can hardly contain ourselves either. Publisher EA has released a tiny new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi sequel, showing off what you get when you pre-order the title. Early adopters will get some...
News Meet Your Human Mass Effect: Andromeda Party Members in This New Trailer
Squad goals
If you were left wondering about your squad mates following yesterday's Mass Effect: Andromeda cinematic trailer, then you're in luck, as we've stumbled across a second video which spotlights some of your crew - namely your human allies. First up is Alec Ryder - father to the Ryder siblings and the team's captain. He's missing in action...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Cinematic Trailer Shows Off a Promising Story
Home away from home
Finding a new home planet for humanity in the depths of an alien galaxy can't be an easy task. As such, we don't particularly envy the Ryder siblings in Mass Effect: Andromeda, even if they do get the opportunity to romance as many different intergalactic species as they can. The title's latest trailer gives us our best glimpse...
News We're Blasting Off with a New Mass Effect: Andromeda Trailer Tomorrow
Into the void
This industry just loves to build things up, doesn't it? Announcements of announcements, teaser trailers teasing actual trailers... The hype peddling just never stops, and BioWare's as guilty as anyone. The Canadian developer's been puffing its chest regarding Mass Effect: Andromeda for years now - long before we actually saw the game...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer Offers Single-Player Rewards
And some fans are a little worried
Don't jump to any conclusions just yet, but it sounds like Mass Effect: Andromeda's multiplayer offering will reward you with stuff that you can use in the game's single-player campaign. At first glance, this seems absolutely fine; it's cool that the release rewards you no matter how you decide to play. However,...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer Beta Sounds Like It's Launching This Month
Go team
With Mass Effect: Andromeda securing a March release date, we should be hearing a lot more about BioWare's latest over the next couple of months - and it's about bloody time, if you ask us. Anyway, one aspect that we're eager to hear more about is the title's multiplayer offering. As regular readers will know, this particular scribe was a...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Throws Possibility of Season Pass Out the Airlock
Paragon interrupt
We don't know about you, but we're a bit sick of season passes. Granted, sometimes they are worth the price of admission - just look at The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's expansion pass - but more often than not, all a season pass amounts to is the promise of future content at a set price. Content that could quite easily end up being...
Poll Are You Excited for Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Super effective?
In case you missed the news earlier this week, Mass Effect: Andromeda finally has a confirmed release date. The long awaited sci-fi sequel lands on PlayStation 4 on the 21st March in North America and the 23rd March in Europe - but are you hyped for BioWare's big release? Our problem with Andromeda is that, up to this point, it's...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Lands a Confirmed Release Date
Suit up and ship out
Wow, it looks like it really is happening, then. BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect: Andromeda will indeed be launching early 2017. The Canadian developer says that the sci-fi adventure will land in North America on the 21st March and in Europe on the 23rd March, so we don't have long to wait. With the date relatively...
News More Mass Effect: Andromeda Gameplay Teased For Tomorrow
Into the void
Mass Effect: Andromeda will be putting in an appearance at tech company Nvidia's CES press conference tomorrow, the series' official Twitter account has revealed. We're not going to be getting PlayStation 4 footage, then, but we'll still be keeping a close eye on how the game's shaping up. So, what can we expect? Well, the tweet...
News BioWare: 'Absolutely No Reason' To Be Worried About Mass Effect: Andromeda's Release Date
Give it some space
Mass Effect: Andromeda is supposedly launching in spring next year. In other words, the sci-fi sequel is apparently only a few months away from being ready. However, despite the game's most recent - and most revealing - showing at The Game Awards 2016, it still feels like we know very little about BioWare's latest, to the point...
News Mass Effect Developer Says Andromeda's Wonky Facial Animations Aren't Final
Jank be gone
In case you missed it, Mass Effect: Andromeda got its first proper gameplay trailer at The Game Awards last night. Showcasing combat, exploration, and dialogue, it's just what the doctor ordered when it comes to BioWare's latest sci-fi adventure, finally giving us a real glimpse of how the game plays. However, the video hasn't been...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda PS4 Gameplay Trailer Shows Off Combat and Exploration
Spaced
It feels like we've been waiting an eternity, but it's finally here: actual, proper gameplay of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Revealed right near the end of Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards broadcast, the five minute trailer that we've embedded above shows off a load of combat, some dialogue, and a touch space exploration. So, how does it look?...
News Mass Effect Developer's New IP Won't Be Revealed For a Long Time Yet
But what could it be?
With Mass Effect: Andromeda due to launch in the spring next year, it comes as no real surprise to hear that BioWare's entirely new project won't be officially revealed for quite some time. In an interview with Game Informer, studio manager Aaryn Flynn says "we're not going to talk about it until we're confident about what it's...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer Ties into Campaign, but Won't Make You 'Feel Cheated'
Co-op missions will be optional
Mass Effect: Andromeda's multiplayer offering will expand upon the concept that BioWare introduced in Mass Effect 3 - we've known that for a while now. However, there's always one big question that gets asked: will you have to dip into the multiplayer component in order to get the most out of the campaign? This was,...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Does Away with Paragon and Renegade Dialogue Choices
Plus other juicy details
Game Informer's latest issue, featuring Mass Effect: Andromeda, is now out in the wild. Naturally, this means that people all over the 'net are pulling all the information that they can from the cover story, letting us know what we can expect from the sci-fi sequel. It's probably for the best, because BioWare clearly isn't...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Looks Space Ace in New Screenshots
Out of this world
Yesterday's trailer may not have given much away with regards to Mass Effect: Andromeda's gameplay, but at least EA and BioWare have released some new screenshots for us to gawk at. As you'd expect, the sci-fi sequel looks great, with the move to the Frostbite engine giving way to some luscious looking visuals. That sandy planet is...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Finally Gets a Proper Trailer
Now we're talking
Good lord, it's about time isn't it? BioWare has finally released a proper trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda. Not a video full of concept art, not a CG teaser, not a vertical slice of alpha footage, but an actual trailer. And what do you know, it's actually pretty good - aside from the horribly cliched blackouts. Can we stop with...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Leak Confirms 4 Player Co-Op
And here's the game's PS4 box art
It's N7 Day, which means that we're just hours away from getting our next look at Mass Effect: Andromeda. The excitement hasn't quite kicked in yet here at Push Square, but some good old fashioned leakage can be an effective remedy for lacking hype. Spotted by always eagle-eyed Twitter user Wario64, retailer Best...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Makes Game Informer's December Cover
Out of this world
Game Informer's December cover has been leaked over on Reddit, revealing that Mass Effect: Andromeda will be the star of the show. That means you can expect plenty of fresh, juicy details on sci-fi sequel when the issue launches later this month. And, in case you didn't already know, every year on the 7th November, developer...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Male and Female Protagonists Are Siblings
Bonds of blood
An intriguing little detail emerging from the PlayStation Meeting, it turns out that Mass Effect: Andromeda's main character, Ryder, will have a brother or sister depending on whether you decide to play as a male or female protagonist. In other words, both Ryders will exist within the game. Speaking to PlayStation Access, BioWare...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Gameplay Is Finally Here, Running on PS4 Pro
The future is here
Those BioWare Twitter teases weren't for nothing, it would seem. As hinted, Mass Effect: Andromeda was indeed shown during Sony's PlayStation Meeting - and it was running on the newly announced PlayStation 4 Pro. This trailer is the first time that we've seen real, near-finished gameplay of the 2017 title, and it's looking...
News Mass Effect Dev BioWare May Have Something to Show at the PlayStation Meeting
All aboard the Normandy
Oh BioWare, always with the teasing. Hard at work on Mass Effect: Andromeda - which is supposedly launching early next year - the Canadian developer has been busy hinting that it may play a part in Sony's PlayStation Meeting later today. Gasp! No, seriously, that's a real gasp. The studio's potential presence may give a...
News Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster for PS4 May Finally Be Happening
About time
It's difficult to think of many last-gen properties that fully deserve to be remastered for the current generation. The Uncharted Collection is a good shout, and titles like Skyrim are arguably too popular to ignore - but the continued absence of a Mass Effect Trilogy remaster has always baffled us. This is a story that goes all the way...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Combat 'More Fluid and Organic' Than Ever Before
Sci-fi shootouts in open environments
Mass Effect: Andromeda is catapulting BioWare's role-playing series into new territory with its vast, open world areas that are yours to explore as you hop from planet to planet - but this huge change in design has forced the studio to rethink a lot of the franchise's other core elements. In particular, the...
News BioWare Explains Why it Went for a Female Main Character in Mass Effect: Andromeda's E3 Trailer
"We're embracing character creation"
You've seen the Mass Effect: Andromeda E3 2016 trailer by now, right? If so, then you may or may not know that around the 1:30 mark, we get our first real glimpse of the game's customisable main character, Ryder. Much like Commander Shepard, Ryder can be male or female depending on your preference, but unlike...
News Mass Effect: Andromeda Development Is 'Healthy' Says BioWare
Studio explains why the game mostly skipped E3
We were bitterly disappointed by the distinct lack of Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay at this year's E3, especially since the game has been missing in action for roughly three years now while BioWare employees still insist on hyping the project to extreme degrees on social media. Our frustration aside,...
E3 2016 FIFA 17 Dev Went to BioWare for Help with Footy Sim's New Story Mode
Worlds colide
FIFA 17 has its very own story mode - something completely new to the long running series. Separate from the traditional career mode, 'The Journey' will follow wannabe star Alex Hunter, who you'll play as throughout. As Alex, you'll have control both on and off the pitch, as you decide how the narrative plays out through interviews and...
E3 2016 Here's Your Annual Mass Effect: Andromeda PS4 No-Show
Fly into the sun
Three years, three huge disappointments from BioWare and EA. Once again, the Canadian studio brought virtually nothing of Mass Effect: Andromeda to EA's press conference, turning up to the show with a new behind-the-scenes trailer. Unheard of! To be fair, the video does feature little bits and pieces of gameplay, but there's...
News Mass Effect Developer May Be Branching Out with an Action Game
BioWary
Founded over two decades ago, BioWare is a development studio that's become synonymous with the role-playing genre. It's the company behind modern franchises like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, both of which allow you to shape your own story through player choice and interactions with diverse casts of characters. When we think of BioWare, we...
News BioWare Confirms Mass Effect: Andromeda will Warp to PS4 in Early 2017
A galaxy not too far away
Since earlier this year, we've known that Mass Effect: Andromeda won't be launching in 2016. However, in a statement on the official Mass Effect website, BioWare's general manager Aaryn Flynn has confirmed that the game will ship in "early 2017". Okay, so it's not huge news, but at least the developer's taken the time to...
News PS4K Would Be a Gigantic Pain in the Ass, Reckons BioWare Founder
"It's complete lunacy"
You're not the only sceptics of the rumoured PlayStation 4K, it seems. Speaking with GameSpot, retired BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has said that the hypothetical hardware half-step could prove a "gigantic pain in the ass" for tdevelopers – if, of course, it requires games makers to target two different specifications...
News Mass Effect Andromeda's Main Character Looks like a Mass Effect Character
Shiny new artwork from BioWare's latest
It's been a while since we posted some desperate Mass Effect: Andromeda news, so we thought we'd go ahead and share some shiny new renders of the game's main character, who's apparently called Pathfinder. While the renders provide our best look yet at the protagonist, the design comes as no surprise...
