"Mass Effect 4" is what's keeping many gamers excited and pumped up for 2016. Enthusiasts are hoping that game company Bioware would show the title at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next month since fans are itching to see what the game looks like. There are not a lot of details about the title although the developer has not failed to keep fans up to speed about its development, informing them milestone after milestone. Still, the leaks involving the game are giving fans a whole lot more to see. 

A massive leak weeks back revealed that "Mass Effect 4" will no longer feature Commander Shepard, who has been at the forefront in every "Mass Effect" game released. If this is hard to believe since the info was extracted from an uncorroborated leak, then fans can perhaps take the word of lead game writer Mac Walters. Talking to IGN, he shared that players will be up for a new ride without Shepard at the helm. 

"The idea is that we have agreed to tell a story that doesn't relate necessarily to any of the Shepard events at all," Walters said. "It has to feel like a Mass Effect game at its heart, at its core. Just without the Shepard character or the Shepard specific companions." 

It looks like Commander Shepard won't have anything to do with "Mass Effect 4." What Bioware chose to keep though, according to the leak, is the involvement of an ancient yet advanced alien race that bears knowledge of a technology and has crafted a relic that players will have to acquire in order to control the new menacing, meteoric milieu called Helius Cluster and eventually find a mankind a new home. 

Just recently, Bioware celebrated its 20^th anniversary. Edmonton and Montreal General Manager Aaryn Flynn took to Twitter to acknowledge the momentous occasion and, in the process, revealed the game studio's ongoing work for the N7.

"Mass Effect 4" is currently in major development. Its name is just a moniker developed by the Internet community in recognition to it being the fourth in the franchise. Bioware has yet to reveal the name of the new "Mass Effect" game but information should be available in the coming months as it is widely believed that the title will be revealed by the start of 2016.