By Brian Chidueme |Staff Writer| In “Mass Effect 3,” Earth is in trouble yet again, and how you plan to save the galaxy is greatly influenced by the choices and decisions that you’ve made in the past. Gamers and critics such as GamesRadar have been hailing the franchise as the apex of “video games as a storytelling medium.” Since the franchise’s birth on the Xbox 360 in 2007, “Mass Effect” effectively chronicled the story of Commander Shepard and his role in leading an intergalactic struggle against a race of extraterrestrial machines known as the Reapers. At the same time, developers BioWare rewarded gamers with the ability to customize Commander Shepherd at will. “Mass … [Read more...] about Getting ready for the end of the world with “Mass Effect 3”
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World of Warcraft takes on The Old Republic with a new expansion
By: Nigel Hamblin |Staff Writer| Blizzard has announced a new World of Warcraft (WoW) expansion a couple months before the release of the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic. The expansion will be titled "Mists of Pandaria", and has conveniently been revealed shortly before the debut of EA and Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic (TOR), which has been getting considerable attention and hype in the massively multiplayer online world. So how does this expansion factor into TOR? It looks like Blizzard is using this as a defense against its biggest competitor, whom millions of players will undoubtedly be playing this December. Some have even gone as far as to say that TOR … [Read more...] about World of Warcraft takes on The Old Republic with a new expansion