Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster is Being 'Absolutely Actively' Looked Into, More Andromeda Footage Arriving Soon

In an interview with Game Informer at gamescom, Patrick Soderlund, executive vice president at EA Studios, spoke about the very real possibility of a Mass Effect Trilogy remaster. In addition, the EA spokesperson said that much more footage from the upcoming Andromeda will be released "in the not so distant future".

Game Informer: One of the things I asked you last year when we sat down at E3 was about Mass Effect. At the time, there were two publishers that hadn't really dipped into the remaster world: you and Activision. Activision has since released a number of remasters or ports, and now they are working on a full-on remaster for MW. Revisiting this as the last man standing on remasters, has anything changed? Like a Mass Effect trilogy remaster?

Soderlund: What's changed is that there is proof in the market that people want it, maybe more than there was when we spoke. There were some that did it before, but I think there is even more clear evidence that this is something that people really want. The honest answer is that we are absolutely actively looking at it. I can't announce anything today, but you can expect us most likely to follow our fellow partners in Activision and other companies that have done this successfully.

On top of this news, Soderlund also offered a small update on when we'll be able to see more from Mass Effect Andromeda, which is set for a March 2017 release.

I get people want to see gameplay and I just came back from a short vacation and I played through the first three hours of the game. It's very playable, and there is no alarm about, 'Why aren't they showing it?' It's strictly that the game will get the right type of exposure at the right time and that we can the right voice for it. Right now we're focused on our big titles for [October through December], and when that's done, we'll shift to Mass Effect. You'll see a lot more very shortly.