Mass Effect 3 Plot Details Spill Out onto the InternetWritten Friday, December 10, 2010 By Dan WebbAs BioWare prepare for their next game unveiling at tomorrow night's Video Game Awards, EA's online store seems to be determined to upset the applecart by listing the much anticipated sequel in the Mass Effect franchise for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.Yes, we all know it's coming, Ray Muzyka, BioWare CEO, would say - as he has often said to us - "Mass Effect 3, we haven't announced that formally yet, but we always say it is a trilogy," but this is the first time we've heard any sort of details for the title.The listing, which has since been removed, comments that Shepard's fight will take players to Earth, which sounds like it has been taken hostage by those pesky sentient machines, The Reapers."Earth is burning," says the listing, "Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth."That may not come as a surprise to many of our faithful readers, after all, Muzyka teased Earth in Mass Effect 3 when we asked him and Greg Zeschuk whether we would be heading there at Gamescom this year."That is actually one of the things that we hear from fans a lot; they would love to return to earth," said Muzyka with a large grin on his face, "That's a very interesting idea, that's for sure."Whether this is tied to tomorrow's BioWare VGA announcement remains to be seen, but I'd be very surprised if it was a coincidence.Sony Russia has already said that it would be Mass Effect 3 too, as well as us surmising that the crosshairs in the two games are awfully similar, so we'd hazard a guess that 1 + 1 + 1 = Mass Effect 3.I guess we find out tomorrow, once and for all.[Via Joystiq]