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BioWare is to close down Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Asia Pacific servers and merge them with the North American servers. A specific timeframe for the closure has not yet been revealed, although it has been announced that Mastar Dar’Nala (PvP) will transfer to The Bastion (PvP), Gav Daragon (RP-PvE) …
Read More »Star Wars shooter First Assault in development… but may never be released
A digital-only precursor to the ill-fated Battlefront III is in development at LucasArts, but may not now ever be released. That’s according to Kotaku, which says that Star Wars: First Assault is a 16-player multiplayer shooter that was at one stage scheduled for a release this spring. The idea behind …
Read More »Zen Studios releasing Star Wars pinball tables across various devices
A number of Star Wars pinball tables are being released by Zen Studios. How you can acquire them, however, depends on what device you’ll be playing on. Xbox 360 owners can grab them as an expansion to Pinball FX2 for 800 Microsoft Points. PS3 owners, meanwhile, receive them as an …
Read More »VIDEO: The Star Wars fighting game that never was
Long-dead developer Studio Gigante was at one stage working on a Street Fighter II style Star Wars game – and you can see the video here. The video was posted online by Gigante co-founder Josh Tsui, who is currently president of developer Robomodo. What you’re seeing is described as an …
Read More »Obsidian pitching for a new Star Wars RPG
Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic II creator Obsidian is planning to pitch a brand new Star Wars RPG to Disney. The move, of course, comes as the world still comes to grips with the news that Disney, fresh from the acquisition of LucasArts, is working not only on …
Read More »Star Wars The Old Republic gets a gay planet… that’s locked behind a paywall
BioWare has made good on its promise to bring homosexuality to The Old Republic… sort of. PCGamesN reports that the planet of Makeb will soon be open for business and is the only location in the game where characters are able to engage in romantic options with same sex NPCs. …
Read More »Telltale "could do a great Star Wars story game"
Having single-handedly proven that episodic, narrative-driven gaming is very much a financial reality, Telltale has name-dropped some other key IP. Many of Telltale’s staff are former developers from LucasArts – a perfect reason, it argues, why it could do the Star Wars IP justice. Coming from LucasArts we always felt …
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic promises that gay relationships are coming
BioWare is to continue its fine work in the area of same sex relationships by bringing them to MMO title Star wars: The Old Republic. The studio has previously attracted praise (and, from the right at least, some criticism) for integrating gay relationship options into games like Mass Effect. Players …
Read More »First Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion skips retail
BioWare is working on the first major add-on or its Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic – but it won’t be coming to the High Street. The Rise of the Hutt Cartel is due for release this spring and will only be available via download, according to IGN. The title …
Read More »Free Radical dev responds to Battlefront III allegations
'We were not perfect. We made mistakes, but third-parties had a hand in our failure'
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