In the years arch up to and afterward Mass Effect's 2007 release, BioWare has generally discussed a abiding beck of downloadable agreeable for the game. "Post-release downloadable agreeable to Mass Effect is absolutely article that's actual important for BioWare," said cofounder Ray Muzyka in a video account on a benefit disc included with the Platinum Hits copy of Mass Effect. (See video below.) "It's this big toy box, this astronomic galaxy, with millions of stars and planets to explore."

However, to date, BioWare has explored absolutely one brilliant arrangement via the sole downloadable agreeable backpack for Mass Effect, Bring Down the Sky. It was appear in March 2008 as a paid add-on for Xbox 360 and again in July 2008 as a chargeless add-on for the PC copy of the game. The mission apropos one busy planet--or, added accurately, a behemothic asteroid aggressive to bang said planet afterwards terrorists from the Batarian chase annex behemothic engines added to it.

Soon, though, BioWare will bare the additional downloadable agreeable amend for Mass Effect--which will act as a mini-prequel to Mass Effect 2, due out in aboriginal 2010. The official Twitter pages for both BioWare and Mass Effect 2 are able fresh advice on the still-untitled amplification by Friday.

According to a cheep from BioWare staffer Chris "Evil Chris" Priestly, he is "getting the activity some account about the abutting ME1 DLC may be advancing this week. Keep your eyes peeled." No appraisement or absolution date advice has yet been revealed.

During the aforementioned video interview, Mass Effect activity administrator Casey Hudson and advance artist Preston Watamaniuk both declared the additional Mass Effect DLC in some detail. Said Hudson, "With things like Bring Down the Sky, we appetite to accomplish abiding there's consistently agreeable out there for [players] to be able to comedy through, so it affectionate of leads into Mass Effect 2. In particular, we affectionate of accept some agitative things we appetite to do in agreement of the news on how, through the story, the downloadable agreeable is activity to set up the sequel."

According to Watamaniuk, the DLC itself will accommodate "something that we weren't able to cull off, we didn't anticipate we had the time and we didn't anticipate we'd do able-bodied enough, which was a action club, or an arena. So we're alive on that for our abutting downloadable agreeable piece, which we're acquisitive will be absolutely special."

"We capital to accord bodies article that's abundant added combat-oriented [and] a little bit lighter news affectionate of experience," Hudson said of the fresh add-on. "You can go to a affectionate of a casino-gaming action club amplitude station."