BioWare will announce a new game on December 11th at the video game awards. The new game is supposed to be a Multiplayer Mass-Effect spin off No it will not be an MMO thankfully http://www.spike.com/video/world-premiere/3497987 The rifle in the video looks like an M-29 Incisor from Mass Effect, here is a still image from the video taken from Kotaku: And the Incisor: Sources pointing to a Mass Effect multiplayer game: BioWare (specifically the people who made Mass Effect, not the branch working on TOR) was looking for multiplayer programmers earlier in the year for a new game. The exact words from BioWare were: The rifle is the M-29 Incisor from ME. EA executives confirmed something relating to ME but not a ME sequel is on the schedule for a 4th quarter 2011 release. ME2 for Playstation 3 is coming in Q1 2011 so it cant be referring to that. And lastly here is another image posted by EA about a new game earlier this year:
Just finish Mass Effect 3 please. DO NOT WANT THIS GAME YET. You say its a "spin-off" - so it the same universe? Or just the same style?
A spin-off would imply the same universe and probably the same characters or references to characters from the ME games.
Yeah, that's very true, but since they got big label / publisher support now I'm sure they are getting even more money to help feed it. As long as they keep making quality games - I'll be happy with Bioware no matter how many products they put out. But again - just give me ME3 already, I really don't care about a "ME multiplayer" game. Co-Op COULD be cool if done right, but the Mass Effect experience is all about playing it like a singleplayer RPG.
Well Bioware has a few development studios. BioWare of Austin, Texas is working on TOR. BioWare of Montreal is working on this game. There is also BioWare Mythic now as well that used to be Mythic Entertainment. And like Sogestsu said, as a subsidiary of EA now, they have big money to put behind games. I too want Mass Effect 3, but if the ME multiplayer game turns out well I might be playing that here and there until ME3 comes out.
ME3 will have multiplayer. (Most likely arenas and stuff like that) But no Coop, one thing is coop in a adventure game, but in a RPG, where you need to make decision talk to bunch of people, etc or you go MMO stile every doing their thing until they need to team up to do something or only being able to play with a follower.