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Exclusive Mass Effect 2 footage coming soon to XBLA.

As you probably all know by now, we’ve long been advocates of original video content on Xbox Live. When Microsoft teamed with James Wann, Peter Cornwell, Peter Gunn and Andrew Douglas for “Horror Directors Do Comedy“, we were the first to let you know. We also broke the news when Felicia Day brought “The Guild” to XBLA, and we were there on day one when Netflix first became available on your home console.

Today we learned from our sources at Xbox Live that our friends at Machinima.com will be joining the XBLA video club with their original series, “Art of the Game”! The first episode is set to debut on Monday the 18th, and will feature exclusive, never before seen footage of Mass Effect 2. Machinima’s history with producing awesome gaming videos should make them a good fit for the Xbox Live community, as well as providing a welcome alternative to watching Jessica Chobot pretend to like video games while reading text off of a teleprompter.

We’re all super pumped for Mass Effect 2 here at Crave (especially Erik Norris, who just wrote a long, embarrassing love letter to Bioware earlier this week), so we’ll certainly be watching. To get a better idea of what to expect, check out this episode featuring the art design of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Then pretend that they’re talking about aliens and robots and stuff like that instead of superheroes and you’re halfway there!

We talk to the game’s Marketing Manager, Jarrett Lee

One of the most hotly anticipated games at this year’s E3 was Mass Effect 2, the sequel to Bioware’s beloved space-opera action RPG. We had a chance to play the game a little bit ourselves, and talk to one of the marketing managers about what’s new in Mass Effect 2, which characters and features carried over from the first game, and what new threats Shepard and his team will face now that the Revers and the Geth have been all but eliminated. Check out the interview right here:

Check back every day for tons more exclusive interviews with the developers behind this year’s hottest games!