Mass Effect returns in free download you've 14 days to nab

Yesterday marked N7 Day which saw both BioWare and millions of Mass Effect fans come together to celebrate the much-loved RPG series.

Falling on 7 November each year, N7 Day celebrates all things Mass Effect and not a year goes by without some sort of announcement by its proud developers BioWare.

Check out the official launch trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda below!

However, with it having been seven years since its latest instalment, Mass Effect: Andromeda, was released, fans were hoping yesterday would bring us news of a potential Mass Effect 5.

Unfortunately it did not.

That being said, it is perhaps not surprising considering BioWare released the long-awaited Dragon Age: The Veilguard just over a week ago and is hard at work with patches for the latest RPG.

Despite no news of Mass Effect 5, BioWare did not let the day pass without at least some small announcements.

That includes a cameo in another much-loved sci-fi video game.

First showing up in No Man’s Sky over three years ago, a Mass Effect crossover welcomed a cameo from the Normandy itself.

Now to celebrate N7 Day, No Man’s Sky has introduced a “overhauled version” of the Normandy to the game as “a love-letter from one science fiction game to another”.

In the announcement by No Man’s Sky boss Sean Murray, he said: "In the intervening years since that event, we have welcomed a huge number of Travellers, not least a whole new cohort of Switch players and an increasingly large number of Chinese fans.

"Many of these new players have envied those who proudly displayed their Normandy in their frigate collection.

Mass Effect fans know that this legendary frigate only appears when it is most needed!

Today, and for the next two weeks, as a love letter from one science fiction game to another, we are giving everyone another chance to encounter the Normandy in an overhauled version of the original mission and add it to their collection."

So if you want the Normandy itself in No Man’s Sky, you have until 21 November to grab it.