Strong news! Hot on the heels of the announcement that Mass Effect 3 will boast the series’ first optional male-on-male “romance”, RPS reader Daniel Żak writes in to point us torwards some tweets from Bioware marketing director David Silverman in which he reveals that not only are Bioware working on a trailer showing female Shepherd, but she’ll feature on the box of the Collector’s Edition, which will show male and female Shepherds on either side.

It sounds like the buff, tough, buzzcut-sporting, all-that-is-man male Shepherd as the series’ figurehead, but this is still a step away from a deeply male-centric way of selling games, so hooray for that. A fan-made video of lady shepherd doing what she does best follows…(more…)