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Free Mass Effect DLC is Available on PC

An announcement this morning from BioWare brings a friendly alert for PC gamers: Your free Mass Effect DLC is ready! Come play it while it’s fresh! The “new” content, which is simply the “Bring Down the Sky” expansion that Xbox gamers have had access to for a while now, was promised as a free download [...]

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E3 2008: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Impressions

Among the many games available for play on the show floor at this year’s E3, there were a number of weird and wonderful titles. GameCyte had the chance to pick up and play one of the year’s stranger contenders, namely, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Born from the incredibly unlikely mix of a rich BioWare RPG, the speedy [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.20.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]

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Complaining has Massive Effect on DRM

The gamers have spoken, and BioWare has listened, for the most part. Following the news that the upcoming PC version of Mass Effect would use an especially strict form of DRM which re-authenticated the game every ten days, gamers responded less-than-favorably (judging by the 113-page thread on BioWare’s forums). Now, BioWare has relented on a [...]

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Mass Effect Sports SecuROM, Requires Internet Validation Every 10 Days

The ANGRY Pixel is reporting that over at the BioWare community forums, technical producer Derek French has disclosed that not only will the PC port of Mass Effect require SecuROM validation, but it will continue to require internet authentication at least once every 10 days.

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Mass Effect 2, Meet WASD

That’s right: though the initial Fox News-baiting chapter of this interstellar opera has yet to arrive on our collective desktop monoliths, BioWare told Videogamer.com today that its sequel Mass Effect 2 will arrive on PC not long after the console release:

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