Is your Mass Effect 3 Purchase Readiness Rating at $40? Good news: thanks to Best Buy, that's enough for you to be able to complete the operation (by buying the game). The retailer has marked last month's sci-fi epic down to $39.99 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

We're wondering now about the wisdom of opening our post about buying Mass Effect 3 with a joke that will basically only make sense to people who have already played it. Oh, well, bookmark this, and you can chuckle after you've started.