Posts tagged mass effect


November 8, 2013


What’s the scary truth behind bioweapons seen in Mass Effect? Daniel Kayser and Sebastian Alvarado discuss the real science behind the genophage.

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  Mass Effect’s genophage is one of the few fictions in gaming that is easiest to consolidate with real science. That’s probably because we can already manipulate and engineer viruses that manipulate genetics within biological systems. In Mass effect, the

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Science fiction games are littered with dead and dying stars. Mass Effect has its supernova-blasted Mu Relay, eezo mines near neutron stars, and Adepts slinging miniature black holes around. In the Halo universe, artificially triggered supernovae are the ultimate weapon for exterminating Flood-infested systems. In

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