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The Mass Effect RPG series will be getting its own animated feature film in 2012. The game's publisher Electronic Arts announced today that it will be teaming up with FUNimation to produce the movie which will be animated by Japan-based T.O Entertainment, Inc.Casey Hudson, the executive producer of the Mass Effect game series at developer BioWare, will be an executive producer of the movie.

Details about the movie's plot have yet to be revealed but the movie is scheduled to be released via download and DVD sometime in the summer of 2012. EA has already released two animated movies based on the Dead Space series and plans to do the same for BioWare's Dragon Age games.

Electronic Arts has been involved in two direct-to-DVD animation releases for its games Dead Space and Dante's Inferno. Today the publisher revealed that the anime treatment will be given to BioWare's Dragon Age RPG franchise. The anime will be handled by the well known Japanese anime import company FUNimation as the first title in their new Original Entertainment division.

It's going to be a while before the Dragon Age movie is done. Production just started last month and it won't be be released until sometime in 2011. We are betting the movie will be released at the same time as a new Dragon Age game ships out. Dragon Age has already spawned a novel series, a comic book series and a pen-and-paper RPG.