There`s a note on the Bioware website today with the news that the new Mass Effect book has been given a title. The name of the book will be Mass Effect: Ascension and will cover the events between the first and second games in the series. I was a bit fan of the first book in the series as it did a great job of setting up the universe without ruining the game and I`m hoping that the second does the same. The book is due out this Summer so that may be some indication(well not really) that we could see Mass Effect 2 next holiday season.

It will be interesting to see if Mass Effect 2 will be an Xbox 360 exclusive or not. With EA buying Bioware/Pandemic this year I think we could see the game come to the PS3 at some point. I`m not sure if that makes sense because Microsoft published the first game and while they don`t have exclusive rights to the rest of the games how much sense does it make to publish a sequel for a game that you have to play on another system.

Thanks to GamingToday for the scoop.