Star Wars: The Old Republic is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a slate of new content and a look to the future. Yesterday on December 20, Star Wars: The Old Republic lead producer Keith Kanneg published a new blog post (opens in new tab) thanking players for their support over …
Read More »BioWare on the art of telling Star Wars stories for a decade
Star Wars: The Old Republic has been telling stories set in the Star Wars universe for nearly 10 years. That’s a lot of time when you consider how closely guarded and relentlessly policed Star Wars content can be, and it’s even more impressive when you consider how The Old Republic …
Read More »The 12 most intriguing MMO races
Reverse fantasy racism Humans? Yawn. Dark Elves? Been there, done that. Orcs and dwarves? Join the club. By virtue of their similar fantasy settings, MMOs often fall into the trap of giving players too many clichd race choices (species, not nationality) when it comes to character creation. The more homogenous …
Read More »BioWare “looking at” bringing The Old Republic to Mac
(opens in new tab) If a massively multiplayer online game is going to succeed it needs to attain the widest audience possible, and to do that the games need to be available to the widest audience possible. The easiest ways to accomplish this (besides attaching the game to a popular …
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic review diary, level 1-15
After several years of waiting, Star Wars: The Old Republic has finally gone live, launching BioWare’s first foray into the MMO genre. We’ll post a full, cohesive, in-depth, Midi-chlorian-filled review next month, but in the meantime we’re writing weekly review diaries to fill you in on what we’ve done so …
Read More »Remembering Star Wars Galaxies
My eyes shot open as I heard a knock on my bedroom door; the telltale sign that I had overslept through my alarm. I‘d been up late the night before fighting Force-sensitive witches on Dantooine, so it certainly wasn’t out of the question. “Come in,” I croaked, swinging my hand …
Read More »The Old Republic beta brought in 2 million players
Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be out for a few more weeks, but that hasn’t stopped EA and BioWare’s upcoming MMO from putting up some impressive numbers. The beta alone has pulled in over 2 million testers, helping the game’s beta become what EA is calling “one of …
Read More »New Star Wars: The Old Republic video walkthrough takes you through the Esseles
Today we got a look at a new Star Wars: The Old Republic developer walkthrough for a low-level flashpoint called the Esseles, which is the name of the ship transporting the group of players in the video to the planet Croissant. As the players navigate their way through the starship, …
Read More »E3 2011: Star Wars: The Old Republic second look – you really should be bananas about this game
When we walked in for our second demo of Star Wars: The Old Republic, we were repeatedly told that the game was a genre changing MMO unlike anything that had been done before. However, when we sat down to actually play the game we discovered that it’s actually not that …
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