Posts Tagged Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Star Wars: The Old Republic digital expansion is now live for all SWTOR players to enjoy. We’re thrilled to bring you the first Digital Expansion: Rise of the Hutt Cartel, available today, April 14, 2013. This Digital Expansion brings exciting new content to Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ including the new planet of Makeb, a [...]
Posted 15 April 2013 | Comments OffTime to get testing SWTOR fans as update 2.0 is now live on the test servers. The update includes the following… New gear available only to level 55 characters. A new Operation: Scum and Villainy. New abilities and skill trees for all 16 Advanced Classes. New level 55 Hard Mode Flashpoints: Hammer Station, Athiss, Mandalorian [...]
Posted 20 February 2013 | Comments Off
In the latest development blog from the SWTOR team, they take a look at the technical changes coming in the v1.5 update. There are a series of comparison screenshots to show the graphic enhancements but you do have to look pretty closely to see the changes. They are subtle improvements such as translucency on foliage.
Posted 30 October 2012 | Comments OffIf you’re still puzzled by what you can play when SWTOR goes free, then perhaps this new video from the development team will help explain things a little better. It did look like they were locking down a lot of features but this might persuade you to jump in.
Posted 19 October 2012 | Comments Off
The SWTOR team are back to answer another round of community questions and this week they tackle topics such as automatic transfers, server stability fixes, lore and more. Read the full update.
Posted 28 July 2012 | Comments OffAnother week and another batch of questions have been posted answering queries from the SWTOR community. In this week’s installment topics include more frequent class balance updates, changes to PvE relics, cooldowns not resetting on death and more. Next week’s thread for questions has also been opened up in advance.
Posted 24 July 2012 | Comments Off
According to reports there has been another round of layoffs at Bioware Austin although the exact numbers is unknown. This news follows a Tweet (since been removed) by an employee at Bioware Austin. Gameasutra has now also confirmed that Star Wars: The Old Republic’s executive producer Rich Vogel has left the company voluntarily after a seven year [...]
Posted 17 July 2012 | Comments OffRecently shown at the San Diego Comic-Con, Bioware has now released the video showing off the companion assassination droid HK-51. Buried deep beneath the icy surface of Belsavis rests an army of the deadliest, most feared machines in the known galaxy. Thought to have been lost when an Imperial freighter was destroyed, they have recently been rediscovered by [...]
Posted 17 July 2012 | Comments Off
He’s known for his predictions (which are not always right I might add) and today at the Develop conference in Brighton Michael Pachter, analyst for Wedbush Securities, commented on the current state of the MMO market. As part of his session at the conference, he used Star Wars: The Old Republic as an example of [...]
Posted 11 July 2012 | Comments Off
The transition to merge server populations in SWTOR is on-going and in another update today they mention that later this summer there is going to be further population mergers to try and strengthen the game for existing and new players. Later this summer, we’re taking steps to further strengthen destination server population. Ultimately, we are [...]
Posted 11 July 2012 | Comments Off
The SWTOR team are finishing off the working week with the latest community Q&A which covers topics such as the class stories, future species and more. Questions for next week’s Q&A can also be added now via this thread. We’re not done yet as a new official podcast is also now live. In this second [...]
Posted 7 July 2012 | Comments OffLet’s be honest, Star Wars: The Old Republic did not quite capture the imagination of the MMO community, certainly not as much as EA or Bioware had expected it would. Today in an interview with GamesTM, the developers have been quoted as saying that they are “looking at” the the option of the game going [...]
Posted 16 June 2012 | Comments OffBioware and EA today announced the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic in more countries including Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, [...]
Posted 26 April 2012 | Comments Off
I quite liked the old site but the guys art Bioware decided to revamp the Star Wars: The Old Republic site with a shiny new look that is a little less cluttered. We are excited to unveil the brand new Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ website! We’ve completely rebuilt the website from the ground-up, with the intention of [...]
Posted 18 April 2012 | Comments Off
A story on Startupgrind reports that EA are set to layoff between 500 and 1000 jobs based partly on EA’s expecations not being reached with Star Wars: The Old republic. An estimated 3M copies of the game have been sold so far but subs are apparently in decline. EA has responded in a statement made to MCV this afternoon [...]
Posted 16 April 2012 | Comments Off
