User blog comment:JakePT/Mass Effect 3 Revealed at Videogame Awards/@comment-1691295-20101209215544

Joystiq claims that a 'reliable source' has tol them that re game is Mass Effect 3 and that it will feature multiplayer.

I'm skeptical of multiplayer, but I'm assuming that that portion of the game is being done in Montreal and hopefully isn't diverting resources away from the main single player game.

I will say though that of all RPGs/BioWare games Mass Effect seems best suited to multiplayer.

It might even be the case that multiplayer would be diverting resources to the rest of the game due to higher expected sales from a multiplayer multiplatform release.

We'll see.