What do fans of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Mass Effect 2 have in common? One group of fans spends its time playing a pop-a-mole shooter set in outer space, while the other group of fans spends its time playing a pop-a-mole shooter set on earth. Oh, and both groups of fans have been fighting game-breaking bugs for some time now. One such bug, gone unpatched for more than two weeks now, corrupts save files in the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2, while Call of Duty: Black Ops has had any number of annoying bugs since its release last November. The game’s so buggy that a UK consumer group reported the game to the mighty Office of Fair Trading for being, in essence, a hunk of junk. What does Treyarch, the Black Ops developer, have to say for itself? In essence, “Pobody’s nerfect.” → Read More
Years ago, the nations of the world signed a space treaty. No, this isn’t a recap of the latest Mass Effect 2 DLC. It basically said, “OK, space exploration will be for the benefit of all mankind. All areas of space belong equally to all nations.” Ludicrous, by the way, the thought that we should have any sort of sway over the stars. The point is: we came together, at least on the surface, for the benefit of every person on the planet. With that in mind: how would you react to a similar Internet treaty? Something the nations of the world can get behind in order to save the Internet? → Read More
From Mass Effect 2, “Customer Service. Sweeping up the store. Carefully explaining things to the technologically illiterate. It’s stunning how many people think light moves faster through expensive fiber optic cables than it does through cheap ones.” [via Consumerist] → Read More
It’s time we start implementing DRM on console games. I mean, look at this nonsense. The Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 leaked yesterday, a full five days before its official release. The same thing happened with Mass Effect 2, which leaked something like six days for the Xbox 360 before its official release. Since publishers are so keen to treat PC gamers like filthy thieves, I say we start implementing annoying DRM on console games, too. → Read More
http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=crunchgear&clip=pla_72a83ffc-930e-49c8-9061-2165c71a8040&autoPlay=false Watch live streaming video from crunchgear at livestream.com Here is our live video interview with Casey Hudson of the Mass Effect 2 team. Enjoy! → Read More
Oh, the ironing. Big Daddy Cool, John Biggs, just interviewed Casey Hudson, from BioWare, about Mass Effect 2. It was streamed live! The beauty is, while they were talking about the game, kids with modded Xbox 360s all over the world were already playing the game. Yes, the game has leaked. Granted, it’s only a few days before the game actually comes out, but still, the biggest release of the year (so far) is now available where you find such things. I’ll be getting the PC version via Steam, thank you very much. (There’s nothing after this. Clicking Read More is a waste of your time.) → Read More
http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=crunchgear&autoPlay=false Watch live streaming video from crunchgear at livestream.com Watch live as we interview Casey Hudson, Lead Programmer for Mass Effect 2. You can ask questions live by Tweeting CrunchGear with the hash tag #biowareqs. The interview should begin shortly. Until it goes live, you’ll see footage from our recent CES coverage. → Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a conundrum. As many of you know, Mass Effect 2 comes out on January 26. It’s the first big game of the year. There’s only one problem: I’m having a heck of a hard time getting excited about it. What’s wrong with me, because clearly something is? → Read More
Having famous people in games is nothing new, and really, one expects that such a huge effort as Mass Effect 2 will have some serious names in it, but this is off the charts. Martin Sheen, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tricia Helfer? I hope they didn’t use up their whole budget on voice talent. I was kind of hoping for more than one kind of moon-dungeon this time around (Mass Effect notoriously reused some environments), but I guess I might have to be satisfied with hearing Caprica’s sultry voice guiding me to a safe landing. That sounded pretty dirty… probably because her last character was a crypto-robotic sex addict.
Check out the video and see the rest of the talent. → Read More
Looks like Devin and I missed BioWare at GDC, but that’s what the Internet is for, right? Following the jump are two videos of the same footage taken at a GDC presentation with the second video being a bit longer from a different perspective. Nothing is really given away, but it looks like ME2 is humming right along. → Read More
Here comes another Xbox 360 exclusive (and the PC) that might irritate PS3 owners. BioWare has announced the second chapter of the Mass Effect trilogy and it’s slated for an early 2010 release. Teaser after the jump. → Read More
