NEWS 05 Apr 2017­ by Kyle Johnson

The Road Ahead for Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mass Effect: Andromeda has a troubled road ahead. Five years removed from the release of Mass Effect 3, and the sour taste of 3’s ending, Andromeda launches to little fanfare, and the internet begins dissecting the facial animations, long loading, ship travel times, and more. In response to this, Bioware have pushed the first major patch…
ANNOUNCEMENT 09 Mar 2017­ by Kyle Johnson

Mass Effect: Andromeda Releases Ansel Support Info & Sys…

Coming by way of a post on the GeForce website, the article reveals specs, graphical settings, and some gorgeous-looking screenshots made with Nvidia’s Ansel screenshot tool. Some of the graphical settings included are: Post-Process Effect Quality, Vegetation Quality, Chromatic Aberration, Film Grain, and many more. HDR support is also included, and all of the options…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Mar 2017­ by Kyle Johnson

Explore the Heleus Cluster in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Seemingly, the final documentary in a series of videos detailing the mechanics and methodology of Mass Effect: Andromeda, the latest video discusses how players can explore and discover for the sake of humanity. Discovering a new home for humans in a galaxy cluster some 600 years of travel away isn’t easy, but the latest video attempts…
ANNOUNCEMENT 28 Feb 2017­ by Kyle Johnson

Travel Across the Stars With Mass Effect: Andromeda

The second documentary video leading up to Mass Effect: Andromeda’s release is out now, detailing Profiles, Squads and more. The first, which covered skills and combat abilities showcased much of the action and varieties in environments, but here, the team at Bioware goes into finer detail about the options players will have in crafting their own…
NEWS 18 Feb 2017­ by Kyle Johnson

Fight for a New Home In Mass Effect: Andromeda

In the first video in a new documentary series detailing the gameplay of the latest Mass Effect game, Bioware takes us through the combat of Andromeda, and how it’s changed from previous entries. First and foremost: the addition of a “jump pack,” which allows players to quickly teleport in almost every direction, fly, and otherwise…
ANNOUNCEMENT 27 Jan 2017­ by Kyle Johnson

The Andromeda Galaxy Inches Ever Closer in the Next Mass Eff…

The second cinematic trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda has arrived, bringing with it more glimpses of the worlds that Bioware has been cooking up for us behind the scenes, and the characters that inhabit it. What’s also new is a look at the Big Bad, in what looks to be an entity named “Archon.” Awkward…
ANNOUNCEMENT 04 Jan 2017­ by L Coulsen

Mass Effect Launches Andromeda in March

As confirmed by BioWare General Manager, Aaryn Flynn, Mass Effect: Andromeda will reach our grubby little mitts on March 21st for North America, and the 23rd for Europe, because fuck us right? Why do companies still do that anyway? It's an asinine, utterly barse-ackwards business practice that just rubs people up the wrong way. So…
ANNOUNCEMENT 03 Dec 2016­ by Kyle Johnson

Find Your Own Path in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Playing as the Pathfinder, a soldier/explorer hybrid in a quest to find humanity a new home amongst the stars, Mass Effect: Andromeda is the next chapter in Bioware’s sprawling space opera epic. With the first look at gameplay coming as part of The Game Awards, rendered in glorious 4K, the Pathfinder and their allies journey…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Nov 2016­ by L Coulsen

Mass Effect Andromeda Initiative Is…a New Trailer

The mysterious Andromeda Initiative has been revealed to be...a trailer, and not a particularly good one at that. Adopting a recurrent sound akin to the Inception “BWONG" interspersed between snippets of bombastic actiony sequences. Mass Effect: Andromeda seems to be promising us...more Mass Effect. Don't get me wrong, it looks very pretty, and certainly feels…
ANNOUNCEMENT 01 Nov 2016­ by L Coulsen

EA Asks You to Join the Andromeda Initiative… Whatever…

In a trailer featuring some chap in a fine piece of N7 armour walking on the moon (there isn't enough gravity to walk!) EA invites us, pioneers and explorers, to journey to a new galaxy for a story that starts 600 years from now in the latest Mass Effect: Andromeda teaser. All we have to do, is…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Sep 2016­ by Kyle Johnson

Get Frostbitten With ME: Andromeda’s New Trailer

Rendered in glorious 4K, BioWare’s next outing in the excellent sci-fi FPS/RPG series Mass Effect looks to be shaping up quite nicely. Premiered alongside the revealed PS4 Pro today at a PlayStation event, the pre-alpha tech footage for Mass Effect: Andromeda shown above showcased dynamic lighting, particle effects, facial renderings and animations, and more technical…