Archive for October, 2011
SWTOR: Ten Things You Need To Know About The Old Republic
We’ve spent dozens of hours exploring the beta, and came away with several core features you should grasp to decide if this new Star Wars game is for you. It seems like we’ve been waiting to play Star Wars: The Old Republic forever. Formally announced in 2008, the MMO has been creeping towards launch ever [...]
SWTOR: There’s Room For Subscriptions, Free-To-Play At BioWare Mythic
SWTOR: There’s Room For Subscriptions, Free-To-Play At BioWare Mythic: BioWare Mythic GM Eugene Evans has been involved with the studio since 1996, and lots has changed about the online game space since the surprising popularity of Dark Age of Camelot back in 2001. “We completely blew through Vivendi’s projections from the game,” Evans recalls of the classic [...]
SWTOR Pre-order Sales for Week Ending 29th Oct
Star Wars: The Old Republic pre-order sales jumped 56,014 this week to total at 752,655 with 8 weeks left until the release date. Join the Forum discussion on this post
SWTOR Friday update talks warzones, EA pooh-poohs launch-day demand concerns
SWTOR Friday update talks warzones, EA pooh-poohs launch-day demand concerns by Massively Electronic Arts boss Frank Gibeau says that fans shouldn’t fret about the possibility of missing out on Star Wars: The Old Republic’s launch day. The only trouble is that he doesn’t say how, opting instead to float a few lines of fluffy marketing speak during a conference call this week. [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Ground-To-Air Battles Glimpsed
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Ground-To-Air Battles Glimpsed by Nowgamer SWTOR enables players to fight spaceships. Star Wars: The Old Republic will be colourful throughout, feature both classic-style droids and more sinister looking enemy droids, and feature sections involving ground-based battles against air-based spacecraft, according to a batch of screens revealed today. Read On Join [...]
SWTOR’s “PC-only configuration” won’t suffer same server issues as BF3 launch
SWTOR’s “PC-only configuration” won’t suffer same server issues as BF3 launch by vg24/7 During EA’s Q2 call to investors last night, games label boss Frank Gibeau assured investors that while Battlefield 3 had seen “unprecedented and historic peaks” which causes a few issues on its game servers, the same thing won’t happen when Star Wars: [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic PvP Battles Explained
Star Wars: The Old Republic PvP Battles Explained by Gamespy. Every week BioWare gives fans some new information about its upcoming MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic. This week’s update doesn’t exactly contain any new revelationsper se… but it does give us a wealth of detail about the game’s player vs player battles. Want to know [...]
Swtor Beta – Patch Notes (Latest build)
Swtor Beta – Patch Notes (Latest build) by alterswtor Welcome If you encounter any issues while using the patcher, please exit and restart it. For more information on the test, view the Test Details. To discuss this with other testers, access the Game Tester Forums. Note that you may need to log into the website to view the [...]
SWTOR: Dimbo’s Radar for the week of 10-29-2011
SWTOR: Dimbo’s Radar for the week of 10-29-2011 By bootlegradiostation My Goal with this News letter is to let you know what’s on my Radar this week in SWTOR. I hope you enjoy my thoughts. 1) First off I want to personally thanks The Flasherman for doing a special 12 hour Mashup Madness here on Bootleg [...]
The Old Republic: Shades of Grey
The Old Republic: Shades of Grey by IGN Playing as a Jedi Knight in the beta for BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, I had a specific goal in mind; I was going to be a neutral force in the universe. Instead of aligning myself with the typical Jedi Light side of the Force or going [...]
SWTOR: Tales of a TOR PvPer – Wait, what?
SWTOR: Tales of a TOR PvPer – Wait, what? By torpvptales Did you ever have a “Wait what?” moment while playing an MMO? With the recent release of Battlefield 3 I find myself perplexed on how often people forget about the objectives. This always ends up with me being alone and saying “Wait, what?” Why do [...]
SWTOR: Warzones Guide
Warzones in Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ are specific areas outside of the main character story, where players face off against each other in exciting Player-vs-Player combat. In order to give you a more detailed look at each of the different Warzones, we’ve launched a new Warzones Game Systems page! This new page will allow [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic Won’t Have Server Error Problems Compared To Battlefield 3 They Say!
SWTOR Server Problems Won’t Happen Compared To Battlefield 3. Aside from EA’s proud announcement yesterday about how it successfully manage to “ship 10 million Battlefield 3 units” for United States (only), we manage to find some tidbits on the company’s big Q2 ’12 Financial call yesterday which talks about the release of Star Wars: The [...]
SWTOR: EA downplays Old Republic shortage fears
SWTOR: EA downplays Old Republic shortage fears By MCV Gamers shouldn’t be too worried about struggling to get their hands on a copy of Star Wars: The Old Republic at launch, EA has said. Despite saying it will “ration” sales of Star Wars: The Old Republic upon its release to ensure it can maintain a [...]
SWTOR pre-order in-game extras detailed
SWTOR pre-order in-game extras detailed. BioWare has detailed exactly what digital items customers get for pre-ordering its impending MMO behemoth Star Wars: The Old Republic. According to a post on the game’s official site, the breakdown is as follows: All pre-orders: Color Stone – a special crystal that players can use to change the color of [...]
SWTOR: Saving the Galaxy One Errand at a Time
SWTOR: Saving the Galaxy One Errand at a Time by ForceJunkies We all know that Star Wars: The Old Republic promises us a rich, interactive story. We know that as we progress our characters, we’ll be rewarded with quest dialogue voice-overs instead of simple boxes to click through. We know we’ll get to see frequent [...]
SWTOR: Get to Know a Dev: Director of Production – Dallas Dickinson
SWTOR: Get to Know a Dev: Director of Production – Dallas Dickinson By ForceJunkies Every week, at least for the foreseeable future, we’ll be presenting you a new segment called “Get to Know a Dev” where we get all the developers you know and love to answer a few serious questions like, “Where is the [...]
SWTOR Laura Shot Third: Planning the Getaway
SWTOR Laura Shot Third: Planning the Getaway by Forcejunkies: IGN published another positive SWTOR review this morning. This time the authors take on the Star Wars game world and the layers of depth they’ve seen so far. Here’s the full article. The first thing that popped in my head when I opened the article was, “Coruscant? Tell [...]
The Old Republic: Setting a Scene – Finding depth in the Star Wars universe
The Old Republic: Setting a Scene – Finding depth in the Star Wars universe. Nick Kolan: The Star Wars universe is a vast and varied place. It’s a place where entire planets are dominated by a single meteorological phenomenon, where a planet can be covered by a single continuous city or eternal drought. It’s also [...]
SWTOR: Dungeon Runs in Star Wars: The Old Republic
SWTOR: Dungeon Runs in Star Wars: The Old Republic @IGN: Massively multiplayer games like The Old Republic live and die based on how well they encourage different players to mingle and work together. Creating interesting group content isn’t simply a reason to ramping up enemy health and damage, it’s about requiring players to think about how [...]
Is Star Wars: The Old Republic on the Wrong Side of History?
Is Star Wars: The Old Republic on the Wrong Side of History? by gamepro: Not too long ago, I asked Tom Chick to preview Guild Wars 2 for us. He came back to me with Nine Things in Guild Wars 2 That You Won’t See in Other MMOs. It contained interesting little tidbits like this: “Underwater creatures might kidnap townsfolk who [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic earn awards at Paris Games Week 2011
The results are in from Paris Games Week 2011, and two big-name MMOs have taken spots amongst the show’s award-winners. ArenaNet’s upcoming (eventually) Guild Wars 2 took home the Prix du Public — that is, the People’s Choice award — while BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic walked away with the Prix du Jeu MMO… Read On Join the Forum discussion [...]
7 New Star Wars: The Old Republic Screens
Seven new screens added in our gallery @gamershell BioWare sent us additional screenshots from Star Wars: The Old Republic, illustrating this upcoming MMO set in the Star Wars universe. The action takes place thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader, when war between the Old Republic and the Sith Empire divided the galaxy. Players can choose to [...]
EA raises forecast on digital revenue because of Star Wars: The Old Republic
Oct 27 (Reuters) – Electronic Arts Inc’s second-quarter results beat Wall Street estimates and the video game maker raised its earnings forecast because of the upcoming holiday title “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” which it expects to be a hit. For the third quarter, the company raised its earnings outlook to a range of 85 [...]
SWTOR: Force Reflection: Emote or Combat Duel?
SWTOR: Force Reflection: Emote or Combat Duel? In-game combat for roleplayers in MMOs can be had in two main ways. The first consists of what we call an “emote duel.” This consists of, majority of the time, a die roll which decides on which player lands the successful blow. This is determined by the highest [...]
SWTOR: Beyond the Grind: Only the Shaddoe knows
SWTOR: Beyond the Grind: Only the Shaddoe knows: This is not exactly normal, but because of the last Beyond the Grind being so late, we have two episodes in the one week. And it’s a good thing we do. As some of you may be aware, one of the regular hosts for this roleplay-centered podcast is a member [...]
SWTOR Impressions from a Veteran MMORPG Player
SWTOR Impressions from a Veteran MMORPG Player: I’ve mentioned before that I have played a lot of MMORPGs. We’re talking years of games- free to play, subscription based, betas and more. I’ve tried every MMORPG I can get my hands on and surprisingly, really enjoyed some of the oddball ones that my friends had never [...]
SWTOR: Facebook Image Of The Week
This weeks Facebook image of the week: Once home to the Jedi Archives, the Jedi Temple on Coruscant now lays in ruin years after the Sith’s sacking of Coruscant. Join the Forum discussion on this post
SWTOR: Class Preview: Jedi Knight
SWTOR: Class Preview: Jedi Knight By tentonhammer During the last two weeks Bioware invited the press (including us) to take part in The Old Republic Beta experience. Today an embargo was lifted allowing us to preview our experiences with the Republic faction throughout the origin worlds and capital city, Coruscant. Over the next week we will [...]
SWTOR Class Preview: Jedi Consular
SWTOR Class Preview: Jedi Consular by tentonhammer The Jedi Consular is one of the many classes in The Old Republic billed as a triple threat. This means that they can perform the role of Healer, Damage Dealer, or Tank depending on which advanced class you choose to pursue. In other games, these types of classes have [...]
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