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When BioWare announced plans to release a new DLC expansion for its sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 2 earlier this week, it also released some screenshots to the expansion, titled Lair of the Power Broker. One of them is the one you see above and some observant Mass Effect 2 fans made mention on the game's official message board that the weapons seen in the shot haven't appeared in the game yet.

Yes, that does mean that BioWare plans to release a new weapons pack for the game before Lair of the Power Broker is made available. BioWare's Jarrett Lee made a post on the message board saying more info on the weapons pack DLC will be announced "very soon." Oh and there's some interesting stuff coming up for Lair of the Power Broker as well. Lee states, " ... the very coolest part of the DLC (imho) will be something we absolutely won't reveal in the marketing or PR, to avoid spoiling it. I think most of you will find it to be our most satisfying DLC release yet for ME2." Works for us.

BioWare has already released a number of downloadable content, both free and paid, for its hit sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 2. However most of that content were basically expansions, story wise, for the main game. However it looks like at least some of the future DLC for Mass Effect 2 will serve as a transition for the events that will happen in Mass Effect 3.

In a chat with Videogamer.com, BioWare's Casey Hudson admitted the developer has plans for lots of Mass Effect 2 downloadable content and he added, "We'll start to have packs that'll tell the story between Mass Effect 2 and 3." There's no word on when they will be released or exactly what kind of story they will tell.

BioWare just announced the details for their next paid downloadable content pack for their hit sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 2. It's called The Equalizer Pack and has you playing a character called Robert McCall who tries to help innocents in New York City who are being plagued by crime.

What? What's that BioWare? We are confusing the Equalizer Pack with the 1980's TV show? Oh. Well. Sorry. The Mass Effect 2 Equalizer Pack will add some new items for Commander Shepard, including a Capacitor Helmet, and Archon Visor, and Inferno Armor. It will be released Tuesday for 160 BioWare points.

By the way, how cool was The Equalizer? Are we right, fellas over 40?

Earlier this week Electronic Arts announced that the upcoming BioWare RPG Mass Effect 2 would be able to download new content for the game for free if you owned a new copy. Now comes word via Bitmob that if you buy your copy of the game used you will have to pony up $15 to sign onto the game's download portal The Cerberus Network and get the newest DLC updates.

Of course, this shouldn't affect most PC gamers since their copies of Mass Effect 2 can't easily be traded once opened and used, unlike used console copies which are traded constantly at GameStop and other outlets. Meanwhile our sister site Joystiq confirmed with BioWare's co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk that The Cerberus Network is just for the download of free DLC for the game, saying, "We'll definitely have for-pay DLC down the road too."

If you own the PC version of Mass Effect and downloaded the game via Valve's Steam service you might have encountered some problems installing the new Pinnacle Station paid DLC content that BioWare released earlier this week. Reports from BioWare's message board states that Steam owners get a "Mass Effect CD key not found" error when trying to install Pinnacle Station.

However it appears the bug is with the DLC file and not with Steam. In a response to the issues, BioWare's Jack Lamden states on the message board, "The PRC installer that works with the Steam version of the game should replace what's currently on the EA store tomorrow sometime. You would just need to redownload the PRC and attempt to install again." That post was made on Tuesday night so its possible that the new version that works should be available to download from the EA Store now.

Several months ago we were told that if we still had our save games for Mass Effect 1 to hold onto them because they could be used in the sequel Mass Effect 2. Now in a new chat with PCWorld.com, BioWare's lead producer of the game Casey Hudson has given us some clues as to how those Mass Effect 1 save games will work in the sci-fi RPG's sequel.

Hudson states that when you import your save file into Mass Effect 2, ' . . . now we can continue mining all that information. And it's not just what your ending was, or a couple of the big choices, you know, where we could have stuck a conversation at the beginning and asked you what you did and moved on. This is literally hundreds of things." In other word a conversation with, say, a NPC in the original could have repercussions when you meet that same character again in the sequel. It definately makes us want to go back and replay the original. In the meantime Mass Effect 2 is due out in the first quarter of 2010.

Last week we reported that BioWare was hinting that more downloadable content was on its way for their sci-fi RPG Mass Effect. Now it appears that more hints have appeared about said content via a video uploaded to YouTube. The video comes from a new Xbox 360 Platinum Hits edition of the game that included a new documentary on the game.

The ShakyCam video clearly shows team members chatting about a future expansion that will be lighter in tone than the previous release Bring Down The Sky. It sounds like it will add some kind of combat arena for characters to fight in with the setting described as a "casino gaming fight club space station." There's still no work on when it will be released nor the previously announced new PC patch for the game.

[Via Joystiq]