Mass Effect 3 & Beyond on IGN is an interview with BioWare's Ray Muzyka about the future of the Mass Effect series and other forward-looking topics. Dr. Ray comments on the reception Mass Effect 2 has met with, a reminder that the ME trilogy is now considered a franchise to progress beyond the next installment, creating original IPs, why Shepard is not offered the option of gay relationships like the protagonist in Dragon Age, what the future holds for BioWare, and more. They also ask about his thoughts on creating an MDK 3, since BioWare developed MDK 2, and he replied: "You'll have to ask Interplay, they have the license for that. MDK 2 was a fun project to work on. We learned a lot from that. In fact, a lot of the people who worked on Mass Effect 2 worked on MDK 2. Casey [Hudson], the executive producer, was an artist on MDK as well, when he started at BioWare." MDK 2 was a sequel to MDK, Shiny's third-person shooter. MDK, of course, stands for "Muzyka Don't Know."