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Casey Hudson of Bioware has strongly suggested that fans can expect the final installment in the trilogy of their Mass Effect series to arrive at the end of next year, or the start of the year after.

Speaking with MTV, he said that the release was deliberately staggered so that the developer would have time to take in any feedback regarding Mass Effect 2 and implement that into its sequel.

Mr. Hudson had this to say:

“We’re already working on Mass Effect 3 right now. We do want to develop it in concert with listening to the way people are experiencing Mass Effect 2,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of DLC coming out for Mass Effect 2 that we’re also working on, and then we’ll kind of blend that into developing and finishing Mass Effect 3. We don’t want to take forever with it. We want people, to be able to conclude this trilogy, that have been with us over the years… [Development will be] along the same kind of time frame as Mass Effect 2,”.

With a developmental time frame similar to Mass Effect 2, it only seems reasonable to expect the title to arrive, more likely, at the start of 2012.