We knew it was coming but Electronic Arts has finally confirmed it. During their financial conference call today with investors, company execs officially announced Mass Effect 2, the sequel to the best selling sci-fi RPG from developer BioWare.

Specific info on the game itself was not revealed but the execs did say it would be coming for "multiple platforms" for release in their fiscal fourth quarter of 2010. That means a release date for sometime between January and March 2010. Of course, the original Mass Effect was published by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 in 2007 before EA bought BioWare. The PC version (which you can see a screenshot above) was released by EA in May 2008.