Lair of the Shadow Broker announced for Mass Effect

Readers of our Mass Effect: Redemption series know all about Liara T'Soni's conflict with the Shadow Broker. And now, Bioware has announced DLC, or downloadable game content, building off of the events of that story. Lair of the Shadow Broker was announced this week as coming soon from Bioware. "Two years ago, Commander Shepard died and Liara T'Soni fought in a desperate struggle against the Shadow Broker to recover her former Commander," Bioware writes. "Now that Shepard is back, it's time to even the score."

I had been aware that DLC relating to Redemption might be in the offing; I'm thrilled to see it announced. What happens in the comics happens in the game universe, too, and so it definitely is worth checking into.

If you'd like to catch up on what's been happening with Liara and the Broker, you can get the Mass Effect: Redemption trade paperback from your local comics shop, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Things from Another World.

Lord British lands safely

Good to see that Richard Garriott has landed safely from space. I cut my computer-game teeth on Ultima II (and then the others), the series Garriott created under the name Lord British — Lord British also was a character in the games, himself. Many was the time I trudged back to Lord British to level up. My favorite of all the games remains the time- and space-traveling Ultima II, though — in which, among other things, your character has to fly a Russian rocket to the planets and try to land safely — something next to impossible on the mod that was rereleased a few years ago, simply because the processor made the animation move too fast.

Anyway, good to see he didn't land in a tree, as I did so many times in his game. Possible next stop for Garriott: Planet X to look for Father Anton...