Seeing as Star Wars: Old Republic takes place within the confines of a massive galactic conflict, every Player vs Player encounter can be viewed as a small battle in one enormous war. More »
Want to see the best exploit of 2012 (so far?) Look no further than new MMO Star Wars: Old Republic, which literally lets you dance your way out of trouble. More »
During EA’s 2011 Gamescom press conference, eight Imperial players attempted to take on one of the game’s first major level 50 instances, the Eternity Vault. The end result? I feel much better about my decision to play on the Republic side. More »
You can’t have a ginormous fantasy epic without at least three different races — elf, human, dwarf, etc. — and you can’t have elves and dwarfs without racism according to fantasy standard-setter J.R.R. Tolkien.
Now that we’ve got a name and a genre to go with the Bioware/EA Star Wars title, we can move onto other questions. Like this one: will Star Wars: Old Republic be making its way to consoles? EA are playing it coy, EA Games president Frank Gibeau saying that, along with a console version of Warhammer Online, it’s “under consideration”. Hardly committal, but then, these are early days. So give it time. If we had two money-printing licenses sitting around on PC, and could theoretically port them to consoles, we’d have them “under consideration” too.
Console Star Wars MMO “under consideration”, says EA exec [Eurogamer]