Mass Effect - "Launch Center" @ IGN

BioWare has teamed up with IGN to create a Mass Effect Launch Center, which has a release countdown timer, a countdown to their review and links to all their previous coverage.

In other Mass Effect news, TeamXbox has their second diary, which asks this question:

I’ve played Mass Effect for nearly 14 hours, and there’s something I can’t really figure out: is an action-RPG or an RPG with action elements? I realize that this is probably splitting hairs, but it makes it tough to classify the game. There really isn’t much action in the game aside from the combat, which is as deep or as shallow as you want it to be.