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I’m huge fan of Mass Effect 3 and the other two games that make up the Mass Effect franchise. I love the way these games combine role-playing elements with exploration, with a dash of shooter on the side. If you’re a fan of the latest game the franchise, new DLC content is coming next month.

The new DLC content is called “Omega” and is described as twice the size of any previous DLC pack for the game. The game will see the blue alien Aria working with a new character as they attempt to gain control of the Omega space station. Word of the new DLC content surfaced last week in a video interview shot at the New York Comic-Con.

Apparently, that video has since been removed from the web. I watched it last week though and the game’s producer in the interview noted that the content would cost 1200 MS points ($14.99 USD) for Xbox 360 gamers and would land on November 27 for Xbox 360. BioWare has since confirmed the same release date and price for both PS3 and PC.

[via MCVUK]

A Southern California man faces ten years to life in prison for operating a medical marijuana dispensary, despite the fact that such businesses are legal in the state of California.

Rancho Cucamonga resident Aaron Sandusky was convicted in a federal court Friday of two marijuana-related counts. The first is conspiracy to manufacture marijuana plants and maintain a drug-involved premises. The second count is possession of marijuana plants with intent to distribute — which essentially means he was running a pot shop, notes LA Weekly. On each count, the jury found that Sandusky had worked with at least 1,000 marijuana plants.

Sandusky, 41, faces a minimum of 10 years to life in prison. He was taken into custody after the trial and the sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 2013.

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Melanie Minnie probably won’t be named “Teacher of the Year.”

Minnie, a nursery school teacher in South Africa, took her 19 students on a class trip to a local burger joint. But to get them there, she packed the group into her tiny hatchback, The Sun reports.

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A Chinese source which claims to have had first-hand contact with the upcoming Retina Macbook Pro 13 (link, in Chinese) has noticed that the thermal design has not been build for two “hot” chips, which indicates that there is no discrete graphics processor (GPU) in the 13″ version of the Retina Macbook Pro. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Retina Macbook Pro Review (15″), Apple patent reveals new MacBook battery and SSD configurations,

We’re just under two weeks away from the official launch of Windows 8, and Microsoft is doing its best to spread the word on its new and upcoming operating system. However, it looks like Windows 8 isn’t getting much praise from supply chain manufacturers over in Asia, and expectations have ended up plummeting.

Topeka Capital analyst Brian White traveled to Asia recently to meet with various supply chain manufacturers, but he quickly discovered that they’re not too happy with Microsoft’s latest creation. White says that the response has been “overwhelmingly negative” and expectations after the launch of Windows 8 are surprisingly low.

White also mentioned that one supplier he talked to said that they don’t expect Windows 8 to make an impact until the second-half of 2013, despite that October and the holiday season are usually when computer sales spike. This leads White to believe that “the PC industry is headed for a muted December quarter.”

Microsoft is expected to spend anywhere from $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion on their Windows 8 marketing campaign, which is the most that any company has ever spent on marketing one of their products. Overall, hype for the new OS seems pretty high in general, but I suppose the real test will come a few months after the official launch when Windows 8 releases to the public.

[via Business Insider]

Windows 8 getting underwhelming response from vendors is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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