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Veteran American studio Gearbox Software has been acquired by the Swedish company Embracer Group in a sale valued at up to $1.3 billion. As part of the buyout, Gearbox is getting the money, or “rocket fuel,” as the company said, to “fuel Gearbox’s powerful creative engine.” Despite the buyout, 2K …

Mass Effect is a predominantly single-player-focused franchise, and that will be the focus of the upcoming Legendary Edition. BioWare has chosen not to include Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer in the package in order to focus on ensuring the core campaigns got the attention they needed. According to project director Mac …

At the height of Mass Effect’s popularity, EA and BioWare toyed with making a standalone first-person shooter multiplayer game. The project was called Mass Effect: Team Assault, or META, and it was the prototype that eventually became the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3. The Gamer reports that Mass Effect: …

Epic Games is once again celebrating the biggest NFL game of the year with a specially-themed Fortnite event. You can dress up in gridiron outfits and take part in a special limited-time mode, or check out a themed creative hub for the duration of the event. Starting February 4 at …

Warning! This post has spoilers for the story and lore of Control and its DLC expansions, The Foundation and AWE, pouring out of it, like an office quickly filling with self-replicating clocks and Post-It notes. We recommend you finish Control before continuing. Read on at your own risk! About halfway …

The Mass Effect trilogy is returning almost 10 years after BioWare wrapped up the story of Commander Shepard in its sci-fi RPG series. BioWare is re-releasing all three of its original Mass Effect games as the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which brings a host of improvements to the original games …

You might expect a modern remaster to utilize the newest technology possible, but that’s not exactly the case with Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. The original trilogy ran on Unreal Engine 3, and it’s a version of that–not the more recent Unreal Engine 4–that powers the upcoming remastered collection. There’s a …

One of the last big items in Destiny 2‘s Season of the Hunt is the Harbinger mission, which gives players a chance to earn new versions of the Exotic hand cannon Hawkmoon with different perks and stats from the original. In addition to a cool gun, the mission also packs …

A new PlayStation 5 firmware update is beginning to arrive, finally addressing one of the most annoying problems that has plagued the system since it launched in November. If you have ever purchased a cross-buy version of a game on a disc, we have some very good news. System software …

Legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in baseball, will grace the cover of MLB The Show 21‘s various premium editions, PlayStation has announced. The premium versions include the Collector’s Edition, the Jackie Robinson Edition, the Jackie Robinson Deluxe Edition, and the Digital Deluxe Edition. PlayStation and …