Mass Effect
When LucasArts and BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic, they probably didn’t realize just how big a hit they had on their role-playing hands. When it came time for a follow-up, BioWare was employed elsewhere, which left Obsidian to take the reins for a sequel that turned out to be not quite as compelling. For BioWare’s next hit-in-the-making, Mass Effect, Microsoft wanted to avoid that fate, signing the developer to create…