Mass Effect - Blog @ IGN

BioWare joins just about everyone else in launching a blog at IGN.  This one is for Mass Effect and the first entry sees Project Director Casey Hudson essentially introducing the development:

One of the things we wanted to capture with “Mass Effect” is the feeling of a classic science fiction movie – like being immersed inside one of the great films of the late ‘70s / early ‘80s such as Alien, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, or Blade Runner. And it’s not so much the themes and stories of those movies that I’m talking about – it’s the atmosphere. Back then, that thick ambience was often powered by the haunting scores of Jerry Goldsmith or the rich electronica of Vangelis or Tangerine Dream.