MASS EFFECT

Dylan Roth Nov 29, 2021. 6 minute read

The Mass Effect TV Series Won’t Star Your Shepard, and That’s Fine

Just before Thanksgiving, Deadline broke the news that Amazon Studios is in negotiations to adapt BioWare’s beloved sci-fi video game series Mass Effect for television. While no further details have emerged about the project, the announcement alone has stirred up some trepidation among fans. Like its sister series Dragon Age,…

Collin MacGregor Jan 13, 2021. 3 minute read

Ranking 6 Video Game Crews Based On Their Ability to Sing a Sea Shanty

There aren’t a lot of ways to pass the time when you’re apart of a video game crew. Typically your crew just stands around doing nothing while waiting for the protagonist to solve all of their issues. It’s a good life, but a very boring one. So what’s the best…

Virginia Paine May 11, 2020. 6 minute read

Gaps and Pauses: The Role of Negative Space in Games

At the end of Act 1 in Diablo 3, you’ve descended through the Highlands and the Halls of Agony, battling Khazra, Dark Cultists and the fearsome Warden to meet the Butcher. After a pitched battle across a fire-ridden arena, your character defeats the Butcher and continues into the Cells of…

Natalie Flores Feb 22, 2020. 3 minute read

Mass Effect Developer Reveals Overwhelming Majority of Players Were Paragon

John Ebenger, an ex-Cinematic Designer on the Mass Effect trilogy, revealed earlier this week that a vastly overwhelming amount of people played as a Paragon Shepard. Although he didn’t provide an exact number, he said on Twitter it’s “something like 92%,” and lamented the statistic since the team put in…

Ty Galiz-Rowe Feb 14, 2020. 4 minute read

What the Video Game Monster Girl of Your Dreams Says About You

Monstrous women are nothing new to video games, and neither is being madly in love with them. I mean, come on! What’s not to love? There really is a ghoulish girl out there for everyone these days. But what’s yet to be explored is how that love reflects on who…

John Warren Jan 26, 2020. Less than a minute

Tali’Zorah vas Normandy fka vas Neema née nar Rayya: A Review

Kenneth Shepard Nov 9, 2019. 4 minute read

Mass Effect Should Finish Andromeda’s Story or Go Down in the Scourge

Mass Effect: Andromeda didn’t need to exist, but now that it does Bioware is at a crossroads. This past Thursday was N7 Day, a community day celebrating the Mass Effect series. It’s never been a place for major announcements, but it’s the one day a year where everyone involved in…

Virginia Paine Oct 29, 2019. 4 minute read

7 Surprising Emotional Lessons Learned From Video Games

Learning to love yourself is hard. It can be a lifetime of intense self work, expensive therapy and tears. We all build toolkits to help us on this voyage; I know I’m not the only person who finds games like Animal Crossing or Bubble Pop very soothing. There are even…

John Warren Aug 8, 2019. 4 minute read

10 Game Voices Improved By H. Jon Benjamin

Visiting John DiMaggio’s IMDB page reveals how versatile the voice actor is. Over the years, the voice of Jake the Dog and Bender has lent his pipes to video games, as well. DiMaggio is perhaps most well-known in games spaces for his portrayal of Marcus Fenix, protagonist of the Gears of…