Mass Effect 2 announced

Mass Effect 2 is on the way!  BioWare announced today that a sequel to the award-winning “Mass Effect,” a science-fiction game which threw the gamer into galactic politics as an elite soldier sought to recover an artifact.  In “Mass Effect 2, humanity faces another crisis.

The first “Mass Effect” was brilliant, and I look forward to the sequel, set to launch in early 2010 for the PC and Xbox 360.  A teaser trailer is online at www.masseffect.com.

- Matt Price

See the full release after the cut.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – March 17th, 2009 – Leading video game developer BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today officially announced Mass Effect™ 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the multi award-winning 2007 hit, Mass Effect. The Mass Effect trilogy is a masterful science fiction adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life forms and mysterious uncharted planets. In this dark second chapter, Saren’s evil army of Geth soldiers has just been defeated, and humans, who are still struggling to make their mark on the galactic stage, are now faced with an even greater peril…