BioWare E3 Official Trailer - Mass Effect and New Title Update

Get an unprecedented look at two new games in development at BioWare. In the next Mass Effect, you will travel to a new region of space, explore new worlds, and discover new characters. At the same time, BioWare is creating a whole new game, built in an entirely new fictional world that is constantly changing.

Mass Effect 4 (Mass Effect: Contact)possibilities before E3 news

Mass Effect 4 possibilities before E3 news

With all of the excitement involving E3 2014 and known games that are heading for reveals at the annual event, one game that you may have forgotten about in recent weeks is Mass Effect 4.

We know that the game is in development from series developers Bioware, but so far there is no official Mass Effect 4 release date and Bioware has also said that the game may not even be called Mass Effect 4 with the trilogy seemingly over after the end of Mass Effect 3.

With the game already deep in development, it’s a safe bet to assume that we are going to get a major Mass Effect 4 news reveal at E3 2014 and fans have been getting excited on social boards with the possibilities that could be on offer with a new game.

Without spoiling, we all know that the Mass Effect 3 ending left a number of unanswered questions. For the next game, would you like Bioware to focus completely on the story mode again, or would you like to see a bigger emphasis on the multiplayer this time around?

We have seen with other games in the genre that multiplayer is now starting to take focal point. Titanfall doesn’t even have a single-player campaign, while the upcoming and highly anticipated Destiny will feature multiplayer gameplay that focuses on social interaction.

Could Bioware be planning the same social aspects into Mass Effect 4 with regards to the relay system collapsing? Perhaps you would rather see DLC characters eliminated as a factor for Mass Effect 4, with Bioware putting even more effort into delivering another epic campaign.

E3 2014 is just around the corner and Mass Effect 4 or whatever the game will be called will most likely be a big highlight of the event. Let us know what you would like to see from the next game and what Bioware should and shouldn’t do.

Mass Effect 4 might actually be called Mass Effect: Contact

We’re pretty certain that the next installment in Bioware’s popular sci-fi rpg franchise won’t be called Mass Effect 4, but we didn’t have an alternative name for it until now. This might change however as recent rumors coming from a well known industry insider have hinted at a possible title.

Ahsan Rasheed sparked the rumor earlier during a conversation he was having with another infamous insider who goes by the name of shinobi602. The two were apparently playing Wheel of Fortune on Twitter when Rasheed said that the next Mass Effect title will be called _ _ N T _ _ T. He also mentions a few of the letters that do not appear in the title to make it easier to guess.

A bunch of users on Twitter seem to think that the teased word is ‘ Contact ‘. I have to agree as it sounds like the most probable option, and it also has relevance within the Mass Effect universe. The name hints at the First Contact War, an event that takes place before the Mass Effect trilogy so we might be looking at a prequel here.

According to the game’s timeline, the First Contact War took place in 2157, three years after Commander Shepard was born. The conflict marks humanity’s first violent encounter with an extraterrestrial species, the Turians. The war culminates with the siege and occupation of Shanxi, the first human world to fall to an alien race.

If Mass Effect: Contact will be set during the First Contact War than that means Commander Shepard will not be making an appearance, just as Bioware indicated some time ago. Unfortunately, it’s very likely that we won’t be seeing other familiar faces from previous games either as most of them weren’t born by 2157, or were very young.

A previous report suggested that the next Mass Effect title will arrive in Spring 2015, we’ll probably find out more at E3 2014 where the game is rumored to make an appearance. Aside from the next Mass Effect, insider Ahsan Rasheed also mentioned a few other games that will be presented during this year’s event.