Major Nelson posted a short and sweet shout out over at his blog to inform all you Mass Effect fans that they have just added new Avatar items on the XBL Marketplace.

Following yesterday's leak, BioWare has stealthily released the second downloadable content for Mass Effect called Pinnacle Station. The brand new DLC is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace for 400 Microsoft Points (US$ 5).

With the announcement of the God of War novel and comics, plus the Prince of Persia comic anthology, one may find that novels and comic books seem to be all the rage lately. Electronic Arts and Dark Horse Comics are jumping on that money train as the two announce that they will be working on the Mass Effect comic series based on the sci-fi video game.

Is there a new DLC for Mass Effect being readied for an August release? BioWare has not said anything about it, but a listing on Xbox Live's new "Games on Demand" category (formerly known as Xbox Originals) did. Innocent slip-up? Making it more suspicious is the fact that it's already been pulled out since.

Speaking with gaming website Joystiq at this years E3, BioWare's co-founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka has confirmed that the second DLC for Mass Effect will be detailed and announced real soon.

A whole load of info about Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360, PC) has apparently been leaked from an OXM interview with developer Bioware. Since we haven't seen a hard copy yet, let's treat this as a rumor for the time being. Among the details revealed in the OXM feature is confirmation that Commander Shepard is alive and well -- for a goodly chunk of the game anyway. Whether or not Shepard survives until the end is still up in the air. More in the full article.

Cheapskates rejoice, Microsoft is adding three of its grade A games to its "Classics" collection - also known as the collection of "it's cheaper now" games. Halo 3, Mass Effect, and Project Gotham Racing 4 are each now available for GBP 19.99 (US$ 28) in the EMEA region.

Looks like Karl B. (and the rest of you who also haven't finished Mass Effect yet) might want to hurry it up! Details for Mass Effect 2 are scant. Even the teaser video shown last night was rather... vague in itself, Shepard-wise. But, here's one thing we could confirm about the sequel though: gamesaves from the first game may be transferred to the sequel!

Come March 20th, Mass Effect will join the ranks of discounted Classic Xbox 360 games in Europe, said ShopTo to Eurogamer. ShopTo in turn heard the news from GEM, the game's official distributor for the region.

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello dropped even more hints at Mass Effect 2's multiplatform future during recent EA's earnings call, saying that BioWare will indeed be releasing the game "on multiple platforms".