While there hasn't been an official announcement yet, the release date of "Mass Effect 4" is expected to happen at the upcoming E3 2015 in June.
According to Video Gamer, there is a big chance for BioWare to announce the highly anticipated game's release date on the said event and most likely it will hit the shelves before the end of March 2016.
The publication mentioned that Wedbush analyst, Michael Pachter announced the upcoming games that will probably be launched this year until first quarter of next year.
"FY:16 is expected to feature incremental releases Mass Effect 4, Mirror's Edge 2, a new Need For Speed game, and Star Wars: Battlefront, as well as meaningful re-orders for Battlefield Hardline, which launched in late Q4:15."
In line with the release date news, DSOGaming reported that a new plot setting to the third-person shooting game will be set in Helius Cluster, without the orders from Commander Shepard.
"The next Mass Effect game takes place in the Helius Cluster (a cluster of 100s of solar systems in the Andromeda Galaxy), far removed by time and space from Commander Shepard's heroic acts and the final events of the Mass Effect trilogy," the leaked details said.
"You are a pathfinder, a combat trained but un-tested explorer leading an expedition into the Helius cluster to establish a new home for humanity. As you explore this sprawling series of solar systems (over 4x the size of Mass Effect 3), collecting resources and building colonies, you will encounter the savagery of untamed lands in the form of cut-throat outlaws and warring alien races. To survive and colonize the wild reaches of space, you will need to grow your arsenal, your ship, your crew and make strategic (and often uneasy) alliances to fight against increasingly menacing foes. Along the way, you will encounter the remains of a once powerful and mysterious alien race, the Remnant, whose forgotten technology holds the key to gaining power in this region of the galaxy. As you uncover who the Remnant were, and the mysteries their ruins contain, you are drawn into a violent race to find the source of their forgotten technology that will determine the fate of humanity."
While it hasn't been formally announced yet, there are reports claiming that Shepard and the rest of his team will no longer appear in "Mass Effect 4" following lead writer Mac Walters' previous statement.
"Well, I can't get into details, but the idea is that we have agreed to tell a story that doesn't relate necessarily to any of the Shepard events at all, whatsoever," he revealed to IGN.
"That's what we've been deciding for a while. But throughout it all, one of the key things is that it has to be 'Mass Effect.' It can't just feel like a spin-off. 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."
In addition to the new setting, "Mass Effect 4" is reportedly going to make multiplayer campaign available once it's been released.
"If anyone is concerned that online will take away from single player, I assure you that SP will be MASSIVE in the next Mass Effect," Wynn tweeted.
Things are getting real now and I need an excellent Producer to come shape online for the next Mass Effect - https://t.co/L4G3OBAn87 - Chris Wynn (@The1Wynn) February 11, 2015
