Mass Effect Annihilation now a June 2018 release

They can make it in 2099 if they like, i play games not books

If they are actually adding content to the book, I'd be very surprised. They commissioned reasonably well-known, award-winning SF/Fantasy authors to write these novels, and I would think asking Catherynne M. Valente to go back and write more would require some sort of additional financial investment. I would've just published the novel as is and got it over with, if the intent is indeed to wrap up ME:A and never speak of it again.

Yeah, they were confirmed ingame, along with hanar, elcor, volus and quarians. Oddly, the blog neglects to mention volus and hanar but does mention batarians, so no-one knows who the hell is going on the boat

The book plot sound like it shows what the Quarian Ark went through that caused its pathfinder to send the message you get at the end of MEA. It's no different than the Uprising novel being about what happened to the Nexus prior to the game starting. A cancelled DLC (that going by the devs never existed anyway) wouldn't have changed the a plot that happens prior to any possible DLCs timewise.

Meaning?

Ah, Yeah. PR saving face bullshit. Can you tell I'm still salty? 

This still perplexes me. Did EA honestly think they wouldn't make money of DLC?

Books are fine and good when they don't replace what should have been in game content. I probably won't buy the book. I will read a plot synopsis online eventually but I am not going to buy a book letting them know it was ok to shelve dlc.

1) Planned prior to game release.
2) Just like any novel released in the ME universe, the books add a little backstory/lore. "Nexus Uprising" told the story how we got exiles in MEA, "Mass Effect Initiation" will likely give us more background story on the Andromeda Initiative and "Mass Effect Annihilation" tells the story what the other Milky Way races got through when arriving in Heleus and why we don't see them in game.

No it isn't replacing a DLC and very likely won't tell any cut game content. It had the working title "The Missing Ark" well back in October 2016 before the official announcement of the books. The DLC (if a Quarian DLC was planned) would've been a story of our pathfinder probably meeting and having an adventure with the Quarians, while the book likely will deal with the Quarian Pathfinder as one of the protagonists. Of course I have no idea how the book plays out, but I can't see any reason why the story of what the Quarians experience first when arriving in Heleus should change from what they had planned.

So IMO there is no reason to be upset about this particular book.

The memes are killin' it.

+1 Who cares?