The May issue of EGM just arrived … late, I’ll note … and what do my wondering eyes see in the Quartermann rumours column?

Worldwide force

Yeah, we’re all stoke for developer BioWare’s epic-in-the-making role-playing game Mass Effect, but we’d rather they light up something else … you know, like a new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game. Well, they must have gotten my requests – I hear they’re forming a new team to make a KOTOR massively multiplayer online game. But that’s not all: My spies also discovered that their current PC-only Dragon Age is coming to the PS3. Oh yeah, and the DS game they’re making? Looks to be a new Baldur’s Gate.

1.) I’m really looking forward to Mass Effect. That game is going to be so kickass. I’ve already warned Katie that she’s going to lose her spouse the month that comes out.

2.) A DS Baldur’s Gate would be incredibly hot. A requirement, though: Has to have Minsc in it. You know, Minsc? “Evil, meet my sword! SWORD, MEET, EVIL!!!!!!” or “Squeeky wheel gets the kick!”? Man I love that game. I still greet people sometimes by very distinctively saying “Heya!”, like NPCs had a tendency to do in the game. Now I want to play Baldur’s Gate …

3.) BUT OMG do I want to play a KOTOR MMOG more. I really think Galaxies should have been set in the KOTOR timeframe in the first place. I love that setting; endless possibilities, no Lucas-created characters to get in the way, a still functioning Republic, lots of Jedi … absolutely perfect setting for a Massive game. Sign me up right the hell now please.

4.) Possibly even more interesting than this concept is the fact that they’re ‘forming a new team’ to make the KOTOR MMOG. That means that whatever they’re working, right now, isn’t the KOTOR game. Curiouser and curiouser, he said to himself.

What would you want to see in a KOTOR Massive game? I go ahead and throw one out there: I want to be able to play as a droid. HK-47 has got to be an interesting enough character to prompt PC droids, right?