Bitmob.com

A look at some of the actors behind the characters of Mass Effect 3

Can you pair up the celebrity voice actors with their video-game personalities?

News Blips for Wednesday, August 31, 2011: How to download your 3DS Ambassador Program games; BioWare is hiring an artist for an unannounced game; the rumored contents of the Modern Warfare 3: Hardened Edition; and more.

This weeks Reviews Spotlight features a quartet of relatively late reviews for Darkest of Days, Castlevania: Lord of Shadows, Dragon Age 2 and Gemini Rue. Read it and consider yourself caught up with some old but solid titles.

Here are some canceled games that deserve revival, plus some classics that should get a next-gen update.

Join the Bitmob staff and community in blind speculation about BioWare's VGA 2010 reveal!

Closing up his Fantastic Arcade wrap-up, Gerren Fisher speaks to if a recent campus shooting as changed his mind on game recreating certain realities, arrives fashionable late to the LIMBO party, continues gushing over Comic Jumper, gripe about medieval magic storytelling and hands out fake hardware.

A look back at this week in video game history, including the NCAA, Jade Empire, the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Jack Thompson, Animal Crossing, Xbox Live, Sunsoft, and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

Where the original Mass Effect was a relatively deep and complex role playing game, Mass Effect 2 is more like an action adventure. Developer Bioware trimmed the fat, replacing the complex inventory management, character development, and combat systems with simplified versions that take little to master and leave this writer unsatisfied.

Interviewing BioWare's Ray Muzyka about Mass Effect 2's main character, dialogue trees, and romantic entanglements.

Peruse the final games of my 100 Legendary Games list at your own pace. Just don't go as slow as my grandma.

Part 2 of Gaming Maladies examines the difficulty of playing a game when the plot is of little to no interest.