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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: Alpha Protocol

I feel like I might not have gotten the proper experience out of my Alpha Protocol demonstration last week, since I didn’t employ any stealth or guile when gaining access to Sega’s E3 booth. There I was, coming in to see an espionage RPG, and I walked right in the front door with legitimate credentials. [...]

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GameSpyte Lyte: Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of ROMs

Hi there, and thanks for consciously choosing not to read GameSpyte instead of just glossing past it. Your brief consideration is all we need. Today, we’ll be celebrating pirates, but not the cool marketable kind with eyeliner and slurred dialogue — the boring, digital kind. Step aboard!

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GameSpyte Episode 7

In this week’s episode, Jesse covers the Video Game Ratings Enforcement Act, Wii Fit’s unabashed honesty, DRM issues with Mass Effect on the PC and E3’s growing lack of exhibitors.

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Spore Verification Only Required for Online Play

We were just thinking of giving EA a call to see if the Mass Effect DRM worries had infected their microorganisms as well, but it looks like there’s no need: several fansites (and Kotaku) recently received word from Maxis producer Caryl Shaw, who says there’s no 10-day checkup procedure for Spore.

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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 PC System Requirements

Strategy Informer spent some time scouring the official Mass Effect forums, and discovered that community manager Jay Watamaniuk has posted the system requirements for the upcoming PC version of the critically-acclaimed elevator simulation.

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Why I Don’t Finish Video Games

Last week, Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra and GameSetWatch wrote an article pondering the question of why we, as gamers, are completing fewer games. She outlines the possible reasons for this result. First, though, one needs to accept that gamers are completing fewer games, and I doubt that many gamers would argue with that thesis.

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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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