Magpie Gamer

What This Is About: "You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." -Mass Effect Reaper Following a leveraged buyout by the Saudi Arabian government , the publisher Electronic Arts has announced the closure of the studio BioWare and the cancellation of their next game, Mass Effect: Universe (previously known as Mass Effect 5). BioWare is a studio that specialized in creating rich worlds with characters that captivated gamers for over 30 years: Baldur's Gate , Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn , Neverwinter Nights , Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , Jade Empire , the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series. A lack of dedicated resources, crunch, trend-chasing, and shifting ambiguous plans from the leadership at Electronic Arts (EA) put the studio into a downward spiral from which they have yet to recover. Electronic Arts decision to close BioWare and cancel the next Mass Effect jeopardizes the studio's incredible legacy. A leake...

I don't know much about musical theory, nor am I a musically inclined person. However, I do love to listen to video game soundtracks. They can be a powerful listening experiences in their own right, or be as evocative as the scores composed for film. Each of these posts will feature a sampling of music tracks from a single game title, or series/franchise in some rare cases. A complete list of these can be found on the Video Game Music page. Composers: Maki Kirioka, Akihiro Honda, Norihiko Hibino, Toshiyuki Kakuta, Shuichi Kobori Singer: Heart of Air, Maki Kimura Release Date: March 2001 (ZOE) and February 2003 (2nd Runner) Set in the 2100's, humanity has branched out from Earth to colonize Mars and Jupiter's moons. Over time the relationship between the three degraded as Earth began to see itself as superior to the Martian people and exploited them for labor and resources. "Ender" became a derogatory term for anyone not born on Earth and growing t...