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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: …

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 …

If you’re a fan of racing games, then Electronic Arts has some very good news for you. The game publisher is moving to release new racing games every year, and the development teams at Codemasters are a big reason why that’s possible. As discussed during an investors meeting this week, …