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Mass Effect- Streamlined combat and numerous minor improvements make this great game even better.
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: BioWare
Genre: Action Role-Playing
Release Date: May 28, 2008 (more)
ESRB: MATURE
ESRB Descriptors: Blood, Partial Nudity, Violence, Sexual Themes, Language
Resolution: Widescreen, 1080p
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Number of Players: 1 Player
Softpedia has rated Mass Effect 9, User rating is 8.9 and critic rating is 9.1 [...]

How long has it been since GTA IV was launched? About two months. Most of us have played
the game, finished it or came close, most of us even tried a bit of multiplayer. And now Rockstar wants to get us back in the game’s atmosphere by launching a new patch supposed to fix all the [...]

As expected, Sony reminds us that they’ll reveal it all next month, their 2008 console lineup that is.
“While I won’t go into specifics of the number of games or what we will be showing at E3, we will have our full line up of titles for this fall,” said Patrick Seybold, director of corporate communications, [...]

Even though Cliff Bleszinski “can’t stand” the cover system of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the outspoken game designer borrowed heavily from the PS3 game when refining the upcoming Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360.
Amid some complaints of the original Gears of War cover system, Bleszinski says: “I felt like the Gears cover system worked like [...]

Contrary to what the media has reported thus far, a new survey found that 82% of gamers love in-game ads.
 Don’t believe anything you’ve heard about in-game advertising from basically every video game news outlet to date, because a new study found that 82% of consumers love them unconditionally.
Confused? So was Wired’s Earnest Cavalli, who had [...]

Electronics Arts today revealed the system specifications needed to play ‘Will Wright’s ambitious life sim Spore‘ .
If you are running Windows Vista (any version) on your PC then you will require an additional 256 MB RAM.
Here are the requirements:

2.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent.
512 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel [...]

Two analyst firms revealed that GTA4 did not have any effect on the sales of PS3 and XBOX 360.
We know that GTA 4 had record breaking sales due to its popularity but it didn not have much effect on the sales of PS3 and XBOX360 in the month of May. According to the two separate [...]

All the games for PS2, PS1 and PSP were duplicated by various method used by the hackers. A chip was designed which was capable of playing copied DVD games on PS2, avalable for price less then a single original PS2 DVD. When PS2 was released in the market the hardware was hacked within a month [...]

Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick confirmed that BioShock 3 is likely arrive just in time for the feature-length film.
The confirmation came as Take-Two chairman “Strauss Zelnick” himself revealed that a third BioShock title is likely to be released at an undetermined date in the future. While the date was not specified, ‘Zelnick’ said it is [...]

The NPD Group, which do the job of monitoring video game sales, has just released the top 10 selling video games. It is since the firm began tracking sales in 1993.
Best selling games
The top-selling games in the U.S. calculated from last fifty years (in units sold):

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) — 9.4 million

Guitar Hero [...]