I made a girl cry. I punched an alien. I ate a day-old Hot Pocket. One of those things does not apply to my in-game time with Mass Effect 3, but it does apply to the sad state my life is in after playing it for the majority of my waking hours.

News Blips:

Telltale Games will submit its adventure title The Walking Dead to Sony and Microsoft for certification this week. The cert process, which all Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network releases are subjected to, lasts approximately five to six weeks. The zombie-apocalypse adventure will be released shortly after getting the thumbs-up from the hardware manufacturers. After being inundated with undead-related shooters and action games over the past few years, it will be nice to play something a little more cerebral in the well-worn genre...and what could be more cerebral than pointing and clicking a walker to death? [MTV Multiplayer]

Microsoft will increase the Gamerscore limit for Xbox Live Arcade games from 200 to 400. According to a blog post from Microsoft’s Major Nelson, starting in April, devs will have the option to spread 400 Gamerscore points across 30 achievements in their XBLA titles. Previously, the downloadable titles were capped at 20 achievements and 200 Gamerscore points, but I’m betting they saw my Pac-Man Championship Edition DX skills and thought to themselves, “Yo, we have to award more than a mere 200 points to this cat. Up the limit!” In June, all new XBLA releases will be required to include 400 GS over 30 achievements.

Fans of the Mass Effect series have started a movement calling for BioWare to alter the ending of ME3. Like books and television, games can produce a fanatic following. Unlike books and television, the producers on something like ME3 could issue downloadable content to placate the desires of said fanatics. That’s what over 15,000 people who “liked” the Facebook group “Demand a better ending to Mass Effect 3” are proposing.

These gamers have seen their Shepard through to the end of the fight, and the resolution isn't quite what they wanted. In an act of democracy and solidarity that would make freedom fighters around the world proud, these forsaken fans have taken to social media to make their voices heard. Now, I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know if the ending is as awful as these petitions make it out to be. All I know is that I’m in favor of altering an artist’s work after it's been released. BioWare should go back and put a musical number in the first act of Mass Effect 3, make all the Reapers ride rontos, and then have Han shoot first. Oh, and then in ten years, release it again in 3D. That's what the fans want!

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