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3 Dec 2009

A WoW player's guide to Star Wars: The Old...

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Lok’tar ogar, and welcome fellow MMO fans. We know that it’s tough to keep up with all the news about Star Wars: The Old Republic when you’re busy with daily quests and guild raids. But even if you have no plans to relocate from Azeroth to greener pastures in a galaxy far far away, BioWare’s first MMO deserves your attention. That’s why we put together this WoW-friendly field guide to help you make sense of the ... » Read More

25 Aug 2009

GC 09: Star Wars: The Old Republic - hands-on

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What you've got here is basically Mass Effect, set in a Star Wars universe and massively multiplayer-enabled. So when you're not talking to a human-controlled player, you get fully-voiced cutscenes and interactions, with the same conversation system that Mass Effect uses so convincingly. This applies to every non-player character, making this the first fully-voiced MMO. Fact. ... » Read More

6 Jul 2009

Star Wars: The Old Republic – hands-on

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“The Sith is an action-point class. Do you play many MMO games?” “A few.” “So he plays a bit like the rogu... oh, you’ve got it.” At that point, with the help of BioWare’s Rich Vogel, we’re knee deep in Republic corpses, taking down wave after wave of plastic-clad troopers. ... » Read More

20 Nov 2008

Star Wars: The Old Republic

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The past decade has made it clear that gaming, not film, is the medium where the great Star Wars tales of this generation are being told. While George Lucas was busy working on the mediocre-at-best Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Baldur’s Gate developer BioWare was crafting the outstanding role-playing game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which earned PC Gamer’s Game of the Year award in 2003. ... » Read More

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