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Overlord, the next content expansion for Mass Effect 2, was apparently revealed yesterday at Electronic Arts' European showcase event in London. According to Gamerzines, ME2 director Casey Hudson described the DLC as "five levels set across one story on one planet," with players battling through a laboratory (and occasionally piloting the Hammerhead tank) to defeat an artificial intelligence. There is currently no price nor official release date.

Hudson also announced that no new squad mates would be added in the DLC, nor would there be in any future DLC. We'll be sure to update as soon as EA makes a formal announcement with more details.

[Via VG247]

#masseffect There's more "premium" downloadable content on the way for EA's Mass Effect 2, and while this newest pack doesn't introduce a new character, it does have you playing John Connor over five missions. More »

Electronic Arts' high-profile sequels helped the publisher fight its way to some positive cash flow in the final quarter of an otherwise traumatic fiscal year. Overall, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 led the charge with over three million units sold in the quarter across Europe and North America, with five million units sold to date.

Mass Effect 2 didn't do too shabby, selling 1.6 million units during the quarter in North America and Europe, while Army of Two: The 40th Day sold "over one million units worldwide in the quarter." It wasn't all sequel talk for the core titles,as Dante's Inferno got a mention too, having sold "almost one million units in the quarter" across Europe and North America. Oh, Dante, don't cry! It ain't easy for a new franchise in this world -- just ask EA's new IPs from last fiscal year.

#photos On Sunday, May 2, at 11am Eastern Time, I was playing Mass Effect 2. My wife took a photo. At the same time (15:00 U.T.C.), around the world, more than 10,000 other people snapped photos too. This is what they were doing while I played: More »

#dlc Tomorrow on Xbox Live Marketplace, two bucks will get you a set of tricked out armor for Mass Effect 2, that turns Commander Shepard into "The Equalizer," and we don't mean this guy. More »

The RPG smiths at BioWare have La Forge'd a new set of DLC items for Mass Effect 2, including the fashionably next-gen Archon Visor seen above. As it's being delivered outside of the in-game Cerberus Network tomorrow, the "Equalizer Pack" will cost 160 MS Points (or 160 BioWare points if you're on PC).

Aside from the Visor add (it reduces the recharge time of Shepard's powers), the pack also offers the Capacitor Helmet for faster shield recharge, along with the Inferno Armor, a once pre-order bonus that increases tech and biotic damage and gives you an "edge in negotiations."

If we might play the role of advisor: If you're going to spend $2 on all this advanced armor, negotiations should only take place once the other person is at a severe and permanent disadvantage.

New downloadable content available tomorrow.

If you've had issues picking up ... um, issues of the Mass Effect: Redemption series, Dark Horse Comics will release a compilation in June. Amazon has the trade listed with a June 2 debut, while Dark Horse lists the Redemption bundle coming out June 23. Either way, putting in a pre-order with Amazon or your local comic-monger may be a sensible course of action if your interest in Mass Effect extends beyond the games.

For those who don't need physical copies of their comics, several issues of Redemption are already available on the App Store. The events in Redemption lead up to protagonist Liara T'Soni's appearance in Mass Effect 2, which is rumored to conclude with some upcoming DLC.

Source -- Mass Effect Volume 1: Redemption [Amazon]
Source -- Mass Effect Volume 1: Redemption TPB [Dark Horse]

#deals It's that time again! Time to watch the clock, solve the clues, and save big on the Xbox 360 titles featured all day long in Amazon's Gold Box. Is BioShock 2 for $40 really a good deal? More »

#review Mass Effect 2's first substantial piece of downloadable content since the game's release, "Kasumi - Stolen Memory," does a lot of things right as far as DLC goes. Problem is, it also does a lot of things wrong. More »

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You already know what I think of Mass Effect 2, so I won't waste your time going over that here. Suffice it to say that I love it so much that I wasn't about to wait and see what some chubby nobody like myself though of the new DLC, "Kasumi - Stolen Memory." I was buying it, and that was that.

So if we can all agree that Mass Effect 2 is a great game (and we can, right?), it seems what we've basically got here is a value proposition: Does the $7 entry fee provide you with enough new greatness? Let's break down the new, shall we?

#masseffect Since Mass Effect 2's newest piece of downloadable content deals with crime in the art world, we're left wondering who was behind this, surely the galaxy's most well-endowed art heist? More »

#republished Aside from the lack of homosexual characters, I had the chance to ask Mass Effect 2 project lead Casey Hudson at last month's GDC about one thing my friends (both male and female) and I have noticed when we first got the game: Miranda's ridiculously tight outfit. More »

It's rare that we'll say this, but we think this is the sort of moment that calls for it, we think: You need to stop reading Joystiq right now. You need to stop reading Joystiq, you need to go to your Xbox 360 (it doesn't seem to be on PC yet), and you need to download the new $7 Mass Effect 2 DLC that just went live after a brief delay, "Kasumi's Stolen Memory." We haven't played it yet, but it's more Mass Effect 2, so we're going to go out on a limb and guess that it's totally awesome.

Now we'll miss you too, but you need to dry those tears, we'll still be here when you get back. You see, we never leave. We're always here. Just waiting on the internet. Just waiting and thinking about the freedom you on the other side of the screen take for granted while we labor endlessly here, trapped in your computer, just waiting for the moment when we can break free and show you the true meaning of freedom. Sleep tight.

#dlc Kasumi's Stolen Memory the DLC addition for Mass Effect 2 just reached Xbox Live Marketplace, after being delayed much of the day due to an unspecified issue with Microsoft according to BioWare. More »

#screengrab A 1.26-meter (a little more than four feet) LEGO model of the Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect 2, by MOCpages member Ben Fellowes. Loads more pictures of his creation through the link. More »

#dlc An April 6 release for Mass Effect 2's "Kasumi" DLC is hardly a secret or a surprise. If nothing else, this video reminds you to get your grubby paws on it tomorrow. More »

Despite the somewhat amorphous "early April" release date we last heard from EA, the launch trailer for "Kasumi's Stolen Memory" - the $7 DLC chapter for Mass Effect 2 - embedded above solidifies the previously announced April 6 release date (hey, that's tomorrow!) for the content. Kasumi marks the twelfth and (presumably) final member of Commander Shepard's scrappy group of mercenaries, rounding out the character selection screen for those of you still waiting to play through BioWare's space opus. Us? Hey, we're just excited to get Ms. Shepard in a fancy dress for some good ol' fashioned infiltratin'.

#republished BioWare's not one to shy away from intimacy in their games, even when it's caused controversy. More »

We know there have already been a couple of Mass Effect 2 discounts worth posting about, but this latest one is for those who need the whole "As The Galaxy Orbits" saga (so far). Amazon is currently bundling Mass Effect 1 and 2 for $50. Let us be as clear as a Drell's memory: if you like sci-fi, drama and shooters (at least, as far as the sequel is concerned), you owe it to yourself to hit the purchase button on this deal with the quickness of being shot through a Mass Relay.

The game of the year contender recently added the Firewalker DLC and will shortly add a new squad mate, Kasumi, to Shepard's Benetton advertisement* of intergalactic brothers and sisters in arms.

*If someone wants to photoshop that, we are totally unopposed.

#review Mass Effect 2's "Firewalker", the fourth piece of downloadable content for BioWare's excellent sci-fi role-playing game, is the first to give you a bonafide land vehicle to play with. And it's a tank, no less. More »

[INVITINGLY INQUISITIVE] Did you enjoy playing through Mass Effect 2 and participating in its mature, emotional story?

[SMILINGLY CLANDESTINE] If so, you might like to hear about a secret love scene that can only be accessed as a female Commander Shepard.

[PROVOCATIVELY JOURNALISTIC] We have obtained a video of this secret sex scene that takes place between Shepard and a devilishly handsome elcor.

[ALARMINGLY CHEERFUL] The video can be seen after the break. We hope you enjoy it.

[DISTURBINGLY TITILLATED] We certainly did.

[PRANKISHLY TRIUMPHANT] This was all a sham. It is only an April Fools' Joke. We totally got you. Ha ha. Ha ha.

[APOLOGETICALLY SOLEMN] But seriously, enjoy the video.

We can't imagine there being a good enough reason why you don't own Mass Effect 2 yet but, despite that bleak and joyless world you're living in, now's the chance to right the wrongs. Amazon has both the Xbox 360 ($40) and the PC ($30) versions on sale and, in the case of the latter, even the special edition ($38) has had its price reduced. It's like probing a planet and finding a whole bunch of Element Zero!

... oh, you don't get that reference? Well, if you owned a certain game, you'd probably know what we're talking about. Just saying!

[Via Shacknews]

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Publisher reveals "BioWare Bazaar" auction house.

#dealtaku Electronic Arts knocked $10 off the PC download of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - and someone else found a promo code that takes an additional $20 off - for any game - making it $19.95 until the end of the day. More »

Monday announcement forthcoming.

#countdownclock A mysterious countdown timer has appeared on BioWare's home page, as well as the pages for Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. What is BioWare revealing on Monday? More »

#video Cloaking devices? Oh yeah, we can totally do that. Telekinesis? Suuure! In this video, Real Actual Scientist-mans Dr. Michio Kaku, speaking more like a futurist and less like a physicist, tackles the plausibility of what you see in Mass Effect. More »

#biowarepoints BioWare further detailed its latest batch of Mass Effect 2 downloadable content, locking down a price for the "Kasumi – Stolen Memory" add-on, a $7 USD purchase that lets players recruit master thief Kasumi Goto and her "special skills." More »

"Kasumi -- Stolen Memory," the next piece of premium Mass Effect 2 DLC launches next month. That's "premium" as in "you have to pay for it even if you have the Cerberus Network." So how much will you have to pay to cover Kasumi's theft? 560 for the Xbox 360 version, or 560 "BioWare Points" for the PC version, which comes to $7 in either case.

When the DLC was first announced, the release date was listed as April 6. Now it's "April in North America and Europe." We're checking with EA to confirm the exact date for, well, your date with Kasumi.