Mass Effect 2 was tailored to provide a sense of consequence from the actions of players. If you killed someone in Mass Effect, they would not be around for Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect continued this trend by putting us in situations to make decisions in which the outcome wasn’t clear. We’ll know the impact of our actions in Mass Effect 3. The team at BioWare is making sure it covers as many bases as it can in regards to Mass Effect 3′s story arc. There are over 1,000 different variables the team has to sift through before the game is completed.

Bloomberg News is reporting that Dubai International Capital has purchased an undisclosed yet “substantial” stake in Sony. Apparently it was known early this month (November 2007) that Dubai as looking to invest $500 million in a Japanese company, though it cannot be confirmed that money was all spent on Sony, which is based in Tokyo more »