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I am a late comer to the Mass Effect franchise, and I wish I had found it sooner. The first game is almost three years old now, released in November of 2007, and its sequel was just released this last January, 2010. I kept hearing about it, but just never thought about it until I found a cheap, used copy of Mass Effect and tried it out.
I was hooked.
Mass Effect, and its vastly superior successor Mass Effect 2, has set a new level for video game storytelling in my mind. …

It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been to my blog before and seen my sci-fi novella or my tech poems that I enjoy science fiction. However, I rarely see many sci-fi movies, if for no other reason than I’d rather spend my time playing games and reading science fiction books. However, today is Labor Day and I had some spare time on my hands, so when my buddy Shawn invited me to go see District 9 with him, I quickly agreed.
I’m not sure if I enjoyed the …