Bioware has today announced a release date for their upcoming DLC that will hopefully tie up any loose knots in their space RPG, Mass Effect 3. While a large pack of gamers were quite upset at the original endings that were featured, Bioware has taken it upon themselves to evolve the storyline beyond its original state, and better explain what exactly happened and why.

The Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut is a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of Mass Effect 3. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Extended Cut will include deeper insight to Commander Shepard’s journey based on player choices during the war against the Reapers.

The DLC will be free to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers, with the new content weighing in at a large 1.9 gigabytes so hopefully it contains a good amount of story.

The DLC will be available on June 26th and you can check out the official website which tells you a bit more about what to expect including what save game you will need before playing.

To experience the Extended Cut, load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game. The Extended Cut endings will differ depending on choices made throughout the Mass Effect series, so multiple playthroughs with a variety of different decisions will be required to experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content.

Shit, hope I have a save game from that far back

time to grind the multiplayer... assuming the stupid thing actually works again

Khel - if you finished the game it dumps you back in the Normandy before you it the Cerberus base. If you saved after finishing the credits thats where your game begins again.

1.9gb could just be 5 minutes of HD movies in all the languages...

Guess I'll have to get my Galactic Readiness full again. I don't really have any interest in multiplayer anymore though. :(

Mosfx - Do you have the pc version? If so - http://www.masseffect2saves.com/

You can find a bunch of saves for the PC version here from what sex you are, who you romanced, class etc.

Could save you a bit of time if you want to save time that is.

Guess I'll have to get my Galactic Readiness full again. I don't really have any interest in multiplayer anymore though. :(

Ah fuck, yeah, the galactic readyness thing decays doesn't it. I had mine righht up at 100% but its prrobably back down to 50% again by now :(

I'm happy to help out if you are on PC. I don't mind the multiplayer game and have a couple of high level characters that can help you out if you want.

Yeah, I've got it on PC

I would say this is great but i'm not paying for what the ending should of been. I'll watch the youtube version.

i guess you didn't read this part

The DLC will be free to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers

It's out now, just queued it up to my Xbox, along with Dawnguard 1600 ms points

It's on Origin already. It's not an automatic update, it's in game add-ons with the other DLC.

Awesome, Mass Effect no longer loads on my PC. I click play in Origin, it appears on the taskbar for a few seconds, then closes without an error. Repairing didn't fix it.

Thanks EA.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/mass-effect-3s-expanded-ending-now-with-more-damage-and-more-closure/

^ did you reboot?

I sometimes can't launch BF3 until I reboot.

Yep. No difference.