Last April, the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO held its first live in-game event. The Rakghoul Plague event, as it was called, had players running around Tatooine and infecting each other with a deadly plague. Of course, that was…
Star Wars: The Old Republic Gives Up, Goes Free-To-Play This Fall
It was so cute to watch BioWare and EA try to stave off suggestions that Star Wars: The Old Republic would be going free to play for so long. They didn’t want to admit that they had made a World…
Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Kind Of Going Free-To-Play
The Old Republic has not been the success story that EA and BioWare had hoped it would be. Sure, the game still has quite a few players, but it’s nowhere near the levels that titans like WoW enjoy. One method…
Star Wars: The Old Republic May Be Going Free-To-Play
For a minute there, it seemed like Star Wars: The Old Republic was going to be the next big MMO that could take on WoW at its own game. Interest in the game quickly wore off, however, and the developers…
Star Wars: The Old Repbulic Patch 1.2 Going Live on Thursday
Subscribers to Electronic Arts (EA) and Bioware’s Star Wars MMO have been waiting months for many of the features that were promised at the launch of the game in December. Users won’t have to wait much longer, since Patch 1.2…
Star Wars: The Old Republic Live Action Fan Vid
Is Star Wars the best movie trilogy ever, or is it the best movie trilogy ever?. I love Star Wars, have since I was a kid. It’s a shame George Lucas and company never made any more films after Return…
WoW Producer Admits Star Wars Has Hurt Subscriptions
It is rare for a dominant game developer to acknowledge the competition. It is even rarer when that developer is Blizzard, who has controlled the MMORPG market since its debut seven years ago. At World of Warcraft’s peak, it boasted…
SWTOR: The Old Republic 1.2 Update Trailer at GDC 2012
Ugh, just when I said I was going to quit SWTOR for good and didn’t want to keep farming Ilum to make it to Battlemaster, they go and release this 1.2 Update trailer. Which looks to be making some key…
SWTOR: The Cold Republic Is The Ultimate Old Republic Mixtape
Rap music and Star Wars, some could say they go together like peanut butter and Metamucil. As a fan of both (rap and Star Wars), I never once thought the two entities could co-exist. Richie Branson has proven me wrong.…
SWTOR: BioWare Highlights Upcoming Developments In Video
Following up their emergency patching of the SWTOR client earlier today, BioWare also has taken the time to let us know what they have in development for the future. They’ve released the video below, providing glimpses at features we can…
SWTOR: The Old Republic Update 1.1 Breaks Ilum, Players Rage
Ah, the continuing drama of a MMORPG. If you’ve ever played (or developed) a MMO game, then you know how it’s a continuing struggle to balance and fix critical problems involving the game. SWTOR isn’t immune to these struggles, showcased…
SWTOR: The Old Republic Is Being Won By The Empire
The original Star Wars trilogy featured the defeat of the Empire, but in The Old Republic the Empire is dominating. In the first week after launch of The Old Republic, a million Warzone matches have been played. Warzone is the…
SWTOR: Star Wars The Old Republic Launches, Early Review
There’s already one important birth celebrated in December, now we have two. Early this morning, at 12:01 A.M., the servers for Star Wars: The Old Republic went live. Thousands of gamers scrambled to their various PvE, PvP, and RP servers…