Bioware Archives

Get Your Game On Wednesday: Money (and Loot Boxes) are the Root of All Evil 0
- October 18, 2017
It’s Wednesday, once again, and I’ve got the gaming news you crave. From ongoing conversations about difficulty to the morality of loot boxes, this has been a wild couple of weeks in the gaming community. It all gets exhausting sometimes, so I’ve been spending some time revisiting Stardew Valley on the Switch, which is the
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Mass Effect: Perfect Digital Romances 1
- Essays
- March 23, 2017
Given the impending release of Mass Effect: Andromeda and my longtime devotion to the original trilogy, I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience with the Mass Effect series lately. My two playthroughs differed wildly; I was all about the rookie mistakes the first time through (RIP, Wrex), and though my Shepard was a more
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Get Your Game On Wednesday: Giving Mass Effect Andromeda The Side-Eye 0
- March 22, 2017
It’s Wednesday, the best day of the week if you’re a gaming news fan! Despite my inability to find any time to beat Night in the Woods (it’s been a busy couple of weeks), I’m still consuming all the news and regurgitating it in a helpful digest form just for you, like a supportive mama
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Get Your Game On Wednesday: Send Your Voice to the Stars 0
- September 21, 2016
Happy Wednesday, all you dice rollers, thumbstick pushers, and mouse clickers of the world! While I’ve been living in an Overwatch bubble since the recent free weekend, it seems as though the gaming world has continued on without me. Let’s catch up on this week together.
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Firewatch, Gone Home, and the Power of a Good Bad Ending 2
- Essays, Opinion
- July 20, 2016
Spoiler Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Firewatch, Gone Home, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Two of my favorite games of the past few years are also two of the games I most frequently see criticized for having bad endings–Gone Home and Firewatch. These are quiet, simple stories told in only a few hours at most.
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Mass Effect Ride a Visually Impressive, Lackluster Franchise Entry 0
- Reviews
- June 24, 2016
Any BioWare production requires a good story, and while California Great America’s Mass Effect: New Earth doesn’t have the depth of storytelling we’ve come to expect (nor the romance options), it’s a damn sight better than most.
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