Mass Effect 3 co-op multiplayer confirmed [Update]

Australian magazine PC Powerplay has revealed its next issue's cover, and it proudly touts "Multiplayer comes to Mass Effect 3--Fight alongside your friends as the galaxy goes to war!"

Andrew Yoon

October 10, 2011 6:00 AM

BioWare won't really be able to tip-toe around this one. Australian magazine PC Powerplay has revealed its next issue's cover, and it proudly touts "Multiplayer comes to Mass Effect 3--Fight alongside your friends as the galaxy goes to war!" The RPG studio has been incredibly coy about a multiplayer expansion to the popular Mass Effect franchise, offering non-denials like "we're exploring multiplayer in all of our games and all of our franchises." An online multiplayer pass was discovered for the game one week ago. "That’s right - Mass Effect 3 is getting multiplayer!," the magazine teases (via Eurogamer). "We travel to BioWare’s office in Edmonton for hands-on time with the series’ first foray into online gameplay, and chat with Mass Effect Series Producer and Mass Effect 3 Project Director Casey Hudson about the decision to go multiplayer in the epic battle for the galaxy." OXM is also promising "exclusive" details on the game's multiplayer mode.

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One rumor pegs the multiplayer offering as a standalone co-op mode, with Horde-inspired battles. Update: Casey Hudson, executive producer of the Mass Effect series, confirms the addition of co-op, promising "they're real, and they're spectacular. Rest assured it's nothing of what you've feared." Mass Effect 3 will be available on March 6th, 2012.

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Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Australian magazine PC Powerplay has revealed its next issue's cover, and it proudly touts "Multiplayer comes to Mass Effect 3--Fight alongside your friends as the galaxy goes to war!"
- Nixx2004
  
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  October 10, 2011 6:14 AM
  
  Noooooooooo!
- Big Luke
  
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  October 10, 2011 6:20 AM
  
  I'm actually surprised PCPP got an exclusive like this, since Game Informer launched here in Australia (and is in every EB Games store) at half the price and (in my opinion) better content I had assumed its reader base had dropped a fair bit.