BioWare isn’t sitting around blowing kazoo’s over the wide success of Mass Effect 2. Well they might be, but if so they’re doing it while already involved in the undertaking of Mass Effect 3 development. Come on guys, you sure you don’t want to take your two weeks vacation? You definitely earned it.

BioWare’s Christina Norman confirmed the news by stating she was working on something for the game called “Project Wombat”, from the tweet:

“ME3 Trivia: Today I started work on “Project Wombat” for Mass Effect 3.”

She hinted it could be some a gameplay system for the title, having mentioned the ammo system for Mass Effect 2 was called Project Sasquatch prior to its full unveiling.

Norman wouldn’t confirm what Wombat was however:

“Wow a lot of speculation on what Project Wombat is. Sorry I can’t say! I can say the name has nothing to do with the project.”

In other news Epic’s Mark Rein has said Mass Effect 3 will be using Unreal Engine 3, like its predecessors in the trilogy. He states:

“BioWare chose UE3 for the Mass Effect trilogy because they wanted to make an immersive third-person perspective shooter game with sci-fi environments.”

EA Partners SVP, David DeMartini agrees:

“We have a great working relationship with Epic from both the development and licensee perspective, and we’re continually pleased with how they keep their game engine technology competitive, which helps us deliver the excellent quality games that EA customers expect.”