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#masseffect Picture it: You're at DragonCon, enjoying the cosplay during a sunny break away from the con floor. Then yet another guy in a Commander Shepard outfit struts by. There's something different about him, though. He looks familiar. Kinda. Wait, that's the guy who actually players the male version of Commander Shepard's Voice in Mass Effect. More »

#paxprime If you're at PAX Prime this weekend be sure to head over to Harmonix's booth, where cosplayers dancing on stage is hilarious. You can also pick up some fancy slap watch bracelets that make me feel like I'm I'm elementary school again. More »

#schooldays Recently, I sat down with School Days HQ, a Japanese-made visual novel famous for the juxtaposition of its high school love triangle and shocking, ultra-violent endings. However, upon my completion of the game, I found my ending to be rather mundane—a happy ending like those found in many similar stories. More »

#rumor Earlier this summer, a trailer for Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, an animated Mass Effect 3 prequel, was released. As previously posted, Paragon Lost is a collaboration between BioWare and Production I.G., the famed Japanese anime house behind Ghost in the Shell and the animated scenes in Kill Bill. More »

#fineart Adding to the ranks of people who worked on the Mass Effect series that we've featured here on Fine Art, tonight we turn the spotlight on Finnish artist Mikko Kinnunen. More »

The Podcast Unlocked crew plays through some Mass Effect on the PC! They also keep you up to date with all that is Xbox.

#masseffect Bored with saving the galaxy, and in particular all that mining (couldn't someone else be doing that?), Commander Shepard has taken to killing some time deploying probes. Creatively. More »

#masseffect Meet AVA, a hologram projected onto a human-sized piece of plexiglass. The idea is that AVA, at some time, will respond to questions, offer answers, and provide reliable guidance in multiple languages to travelers who have just landed and need help orienting themselves and understanding local services. More »

#masseffect Sideshow Collectibles will next year be releasing a $350 action figure based on Mass Effect's Commander Shepard. The default male Shepard, in case you hadn't somehow already seen the image up top (or the glimpse we caught of him at this year's Comic-Con). More »

#masseffect Regular readers may have noticed that I have rather an addiction to classic point-and-click style adventure games. Those same astute readers may also have noticed I have a wee bit of an obsession with Mass Effect. This fan project that puts the two together, making a Mass Effect point-and-click adventure game, is therefore completely irresistible. More »

#masseffect Yes, nitpickers, I know: the Normandy was never red and black. That's strictly for Shepard's default N7 armor. Possibly the case should have been Alliance blue, or Cerberus yellow and black. But I think this is gorgeous just the way it is. Because this might have to be what I do to my next PC. More »

#masseffect There are some really cute characters in the Mass Effect series. Liara has charmed many a Shepard with her smile, as has Garrus with his. More »

#bobakferdowsi If you were watching the landing of rover Curiosity on Mars this weekend through the available livestreams, your eyes may have been drawn to NASA's mysteriously mohawked mission control staffer. More »

#preview I've just played a chunk of one of the combat missions in the new Mass Effect 3 DLC, Leviathan. There was a boat. There was water. There was a mech. And Shepard dove to the bottom of the sea, Abyss-style. More »

#masseffect For tonight's "I can't believe someone actually did this but it's kinda great that they did" item, witness this lady, who covered her back in a tattoo normally only found on Jack, a tattoo-covered star of Mass Effects 2 & 3. More »

#masseffect Master props builder Zander Brandt specialises in taking weapons normally found only in video games and bringing them kicking and screaming into the real world. More »

#masseffect It's been, oh, around a year since we last heard anything about the Hollywood adaptation of Mass Effect. While it's easy to joke that's because the team have had to go back and write a new ending, it seems the end (and beginning, and middle) have already been written, and quietly handed into teacher. More »

#watchthis Illusive Man as Cohaagen, Miranda as Lori, Liara as Melina. And Shepard as Quaid. This is the audio from Total Recall's 2012 trailer and visuals from the Mass Effect trilogy, by an outfit called Node Studios. They've done three other mashups of recognizable trailers since June; this is probably the best of the four. More »

#expensivetoys From Marvel to DC, Mass Effect to Halo, Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings; the Sideshow booth was the crossroads of fan service at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con. More »

#masseffect Here's Matt Smith, the current Time Lord in the BBC's Dr. Who, at this year's Comic-Con, was spotted sporting one of Mass Effect's fancy omni-tools. Just in case your in-progress fan fic cross-over needed a little more inspiration. More »

Playing the N7 Slayer Vanguard class in the Firebase London.

Playing the Fury Adept class in Firebase Vancouver.

Playing as a Destroyer Soldier on the Firebase Rio map.

Hurrah! It’s the first proper trailer for the upcoming anime prequel Mass Effect: Paragon Lost in all its glory. And by glory, I mean of course… oh good lord, you have to be kidding. It may have Production IG involved, but we’re not exactly talking Ghost In The Shell here. The fun series, I mean. Not the boring, over-rated movie and its even more tedious sequel.

Mass Effect fans, put down your plussedness. You shall need non of it today.

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#science Science fiction games are littered with dead and dying stars. Mass Effect has its supernova-blasted Mu Relay, eezo mines near neutron stars, and Adepts slinging miniature black holes around. In the Halo universe, artificially-triggered supernovae are the ultimate weapon for exterminating Flood-infested systems. In Spore, you can use black holes as entrances to the galactic subway system of wormholes, and in Starcraft 2, there is a mission where a star "goes nova", enveloping the map in fire. More »

#community Troy and Abed have clearly been playing with the dreamatorium for a bit too long. And now I need to see them make an episode out of this. More »

#masseffect There is, to be sure, a vast gulf between science and science fiction. The former relies on provable observations about the physical world that is. It quantifies, measures, and predicts the ways that the systems that govern our universe behave. The latter is anything that anybody feels like making up, whether or not it's truly compatible with reality. More »

#masseffect This won't help you take out Reapers. And it's probably not such a good choice against Cerberus, either. At least, not if you want them to stay dead after you shoot them. More »

#masseffect Hello, Dr. T'soni. Why are you looking at me that way? More »