Today is a very special day for Mass Effect fans.
We've worked incredibly hard to bring together most of the original Mass Effect trilogy's voice cast to share a very important message with you.
We need to #SaveMassEffect.
Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico gubernatorial election, defeating Republican Greggory Hull. (via NBC)
She becomes the first Native American woman to be elected governor in U.S. history.
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
This is our Suicide Mission.
EA shut down BioWare. Cancelled Mass Effect. Figured we'd quietly walk away.
Instead:
🔴 236,000+ signatures in 6 days
🔴 A #SaveMassEffect billboard in Times Square
🔴 Both Commander Shepards in our corner
🔴 The Expanse devs joining the fight
🔴 Mass Effect's own composers speaking up
The Reapers underestimated us too.
Your mission, Commander:
1️⃣ Sign (link below 👇)
2️⃣ Repost this
3️⃣ Reply with your Shepard's class + your ride-or-die squadmate
No one gets left behind. #SaveMassEffect
Just want to say thank you to everyone who joined my stream and funded the #SaveMassEffect GoFundMe in 10 minutes! You guys are insane!
We have plans for 3 mobile billboards that will rotate fan submitted tribute images and we'll open submission for those soon. We want this to be a community effort as much as possible!❤️
🚨 WE'RE IN TIMES SQUARE!
Together with @kalaelizabeth, we've managed to get a #SaveMassEffect billboard up in Times Square, NYC, all day today!
📍 1560 Broadway, above the Pelé store (Duffy Square)
⏰ 15 seconds every hour at :35
HOLD THE LINE! ❤️
"My species is mono-gendered; male and female have no real meaning for us."
So no, chuds, @bioware did not and was not "retconning" the Asari to use pronouns because they were going "woke". Liara explains to Shepard in the OG Mass Effect that she is "not precisely a woman". When she and other asari use feminine pronouns like "she" and "her," they do so primarily as an efficient means to ease communication and bridge the linguistic gap with gender-binary species (like humans, turians, and salarians) who rely heavily on those concepts.
But you're nothing but LARPers and tourists who have never ACTUALLY played any of the Mass Effect games, and just want to continue your diatribe about how "go woke, go broke".
I can finally talk about Mass Effect Universe.
Since Bioware closed I can now reveal that I was part of the Mass Effect Council, saw what BioWare was building, and provided feedback during development.
• Set 600+ years after the Reaper War
• You play as a customizable N7 agent
• Instead of being a walking gun rack, you're a cross between John Wick and James Bond
• Shepard's legacy preserved, regardless of your ending
• A galaxy divided into three major factions
• Humanity, Krogan, Batarians, and more allied together
• Council races forming their own alliance
• The Geth emerging as a third superpower
• A galactic Cold War instead of another Reaper style invasion with a shadowy adversary
• Geth-built megastructures
• Connections between the Milky Way and Andromeda
• Experimental technology implanted in you as a unique point of difference
• Hacking and manipulating the environment
• See through walls, identify systems, remotely trigger hazards and more
• Handcrafted missions like ME1-3
• But with Hitman-style freedom in how you complete them
• Brutal close-range executions
• Squadmates who can clash with each other
• Romance wasn't being sanitised
• Liara returns - now an incredibly powerful Asari Matriarch
From what I saw, BioWare was making Mass Effect for us, the fans, not for people who don't exist.
It looked incredible.
And now we may never get to play it.
Find out more here: https://t.co/kdWhbLdU0T
#SaveMassEffect