BioWare Talks Next Mass Effect on Twitter

A number of BioWare employees have mentioned on Twitter that the next Mass Effect game is being shown internally at BioWare, albeit without revealing much of anything about the game itself.

Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson said on September 10, "In a milestone review for next Mass Effect game. Team is doing outstanding work. Looks beautiful, fun, ambitious, and Mass Effect-y!" Following that was another enthusiastic tweet, this one from BioWare community manager Jessica Merizan: "Watching absolutely stunning work from @masseffect team. Goosebumps. Such a passionate, talented group of devs! Can't wait to say more."

A pair of tweets from Yanick Roy, the studio director of BioWare's Montreal studio, which is developing the next Mass Effect game, were the only ones to give us any semblance of information about the game, and it won't come as welcome news. After stating, "Yesterday, the rest of BioWare finally got to get a first look at the next Mass Effect. Their reaction tells me we're on the right track!" Roy was asked when we'd be hearing more. To that, he responded, "Sadly, it probably will still be a while before we show anything publicly. Sorry!"

Back in June, Roy offered some hope to fans worried the game is particularly far from release. He said, "Don't worry: we have a large and talented team, we started a while ago, and we are 'borrowing' a lot of game systems from [Dragon Age: Inquisition]." He clarified that this means "since we share engine, we can start from some of [Inquisition]'s core systems instead of from scratch."

Whenever we do start to learn about the next Mass Effect, don't count on it being called Mass Effect 4. BioWare said earlier this year it would be doing the game a "disservice" to call it Mass Effect 4, in part because it's been made abundantly clear that Commander Shepard's story came to an end with Mass Effect 3.

Once BioWare begins to talk about the future of Mass Effect officially, what are you hoping they'll have to show? Let us know in the comments.

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