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Mass Effect 2 Cerberus News Updates Will Stop Until Next DLC

CDN goes on a hiatus in preparation for the next Mass Effect game.

Daily updates from Mass Effect 2's "Cerberus Daily News" ticker will cease on Jan. 24 as the service makes a transition into what appears to be a primer role for new Mass Effect content coming in 2011. A total of three weeks of updates are planned for 2011, according to a recent CDN posting. One week of content will precede one more ME2 DLC release, while two weeks will precede the release of Mass Effect 3.

The writers behind CDN have been filing in-character reports for the Mass Effect intergalactic news organization on a daily basis since late January 2010. These one-to-two paragraph updates tend to be more entertaining than fiction-building, but there have been a few informative posts over the past year that flesh out the universe of ME2 and beyond. If you're interested in pouring over all of them in light of this news, most appear to be available over at the unofficial Mass Effect wiki page. 
 

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The Jan. 2, 2011 update is the posting that revealed the upcoming hiatus. "Daily postings will cease except for three weeks in 2011: a week of posts will precede a downloadable content release, and two more weeks will lead up to the release of Mass Effect 3," it reads. 

No details on this forthcoming bit of ME2 DLC have been made public, but it's been said before that developer BioWare will "start to have packs that'll tell the story between ME2 and ME3." Perhaps this next one will be the big, meaningful bridge content fans have been waiting for.

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Didn't know they kept updating the CDN

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 Shepard, what does the scouter say about his powerlevel?!!    

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@Th3dz: 
IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would like to see some Mass Effect 2 DLC that lets us get back together with either Kaiden or Ashley.

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I've always thought those updates were a cute little distraction.  I had no idea they were updated daily.  That's kinda cool...for another 3 weeks anyway.

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Never bothered reading them, but now that they won't be up updating them I'm intrigued in reading them.
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More DLC sounds great as I've recently finished everything BIoware has to offer- and, damn, was it good.

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Sweet! More ME content is always good!

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Woo more Mass Effect 2

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I loved all of the DLC they've released(except Firewalker but that was free so it's not a big deal) but I hope that this next one is an expansion as big as what Dragon Age got.

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Oh hey, that's my lady Shepard under some weird lighting. I bet most people did a second take on that image and thought "who the hell is that & what's wrong with her face?!" 
 
Heres hoping the last DLC is more "Lair of the Shadow Broker" and less "Overlord". Please, no more geth or mechs.
  

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" What's up with that visor in the pic?  I had a similar visor but it was always vertical and covered only one eye.  My Shep was male though, is that why it's different? "

There are different visors. If I recall correctly, this one is from the Dr.Pepper promo and increases shield strength (useful for sentinels) and displays your opponent's power rating (useful for meme spouters). The vertical one increases weapon damage, right ?
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More Mass Effect is always a good, good thing.

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they would have to much more dlc for me2 to be the 2011 goty -- the previous dlc releases were great but far too short to keep my occupied for a significant period of time.

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I'm surprised they kept it going daily as long as they did, and upkept the quality.  Looking forward to more DLC in the meantime.

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@Killjoi said:
" Oh hey, that's my lady Shepard under some weird lighting. I bet most people did a second take on that image and thought "who the hell is that & what's wrong with her face?!" 

All I can say is I'm glad to see a screenshot featuring the real Shepard, not that male imposter dude.