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The Noisiest, Dirtiest Bars And Taverns In Video Games

Gergo Vas 9 March 2013 3:00 PM

Bars, clubs and noisy taverns are always crucial locations in a story-driven game. They are save points, places where we can sell useless stuff from our inventory, gather information, meet a key character or just simply get into trouble.

23 December 2011

Remember Star Wars Galaxies With This Poignant Memory Book

Owen Good 23 December 2011 3:30 PM

A week ago Star Wars Galaxies closed down for good. Today, the MMO published its official “memory book,” a whale of a tome at more than 200 megabytes in PDF form, recalling all of the worlds, races and principal events of the MMO’s eight-year run.

21 December 2011

See How Star Wars: Galaxies Danced Out In Terror And Was Suddenly Silenced

Luke Plunkett 21 December 2011 11:30 PM

Not with a bang, but several bangs. Then a whimper. And a succession of people just standing around, awkwardly, wondering what they’d done with the last eight years of their lives.

16 December 2011

Goodbye, Star Wars Galaxies

Owen Good 16 December 2011 3:30 PM

Tonight is the end of Star Wars Galaxies, once a crown jewel of Sony Online Entertainment’s MMO portfolio. There is now less than an hour before the total shutdown of the eight-year-old MMO.

14 October 2011

In Real Life

Calader’s Art Takes Star Wars To The Brink

Luke Plunkett 14 October 2011 2:00 AM

Based in the UK, Georgi “Calader” Simeonov works at Splash Damage, meaning he had a hand in the lovely “nothing but blue skies” art design of multiplayer shooter Brink.

7 October 2011

Here Is How Star Wars: Galaxies Will Be Won

Owen Good 7 October 2011 12:30 PM

With the dawning of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star Wars: Galaxies, aka “that other old MMO,” is headed for extinction. The game is going to wind up with a gigantic PvP throwdown for dominance settling once and for all (sorta) who runs the galaxy, Empire or Rebels. Here’s how it will be scored.

31 August 2011

Finally, A Star Wars Game Where Everybody Dies

Luke Plunkett 31 August 2011 8:30 PM

In the Star Wars universe, nobody ever really wins anything. When good “wins” evil remains, and when evil remains, good goes into hiding to repeat the cycle. That won’t be the case when MMO Star Wars Galaxies ends, though. When it ends, it’ll end.

17 July 2011

Free-to-Play? Star Wars: Galaxies Cannot Make "a Change Of This Magnitude"

Owen Good 17 July 2011 6:00 AM

When Sony Online Entertainment said it would shut down Star Wars: Galaxies by the end of the year, many teeth were gnashed and many garments were rent. A lot of people, thinking SOE failed to consider this, postulated about taking the game to a free-to-play model, and voila, the orphanage is saved! If only they wanted to save it, right?

30 June 2011

Some Star Wars Galaxies Players Aren’t Taking The End Of Their Galaxy Very Well

Luke Plunkett 30 June 2011 3:00 PM

Star Wars Galaxies, a game that’s probably more notable for how disappointing it was rather than its moderate success, is closing down later this year. For most, it elicits a shrug, but for some fans, it’s grounds for a lawsuit.

25 June 2011

Star Wars Galaxies Designer Eulogises The Dying MMO

Michael McWhertor 25 June 2011 11:00 AM

The original MMO set in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars Galaxies, is ending its online existence this December, making way for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Contracts expire and so too must the occasional online community.

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