star wars galaxies
PC

Remember Star Wars Galaxies With This Poignant Memory Book

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.

December 21, 2011
PC

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

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.

December 16, 2011
PC

Goodbye, Star Wars Galaxies

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.

October 14, 2011
In Real Life

Calader’s Art Takes Star Wars To The Brink

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.

October 7, 2011
PC

Here Is How Star Wars: Galaxies Will Be Won

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.

August 31, 2011
PC

Finally, A Star Wars Game Where Everybody Dies

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.

July 17, 2011
PC

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

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?

June 30, 2011
PC

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

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.

June 25, 2011
PC

Star Wars Galaxies Designer Eulogises The Dying MMO

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.

PC

Star Wars Galaxies Is Dead

Star Wars Galaxies, the original massively multiplayer online role-playing game, will go offline later this year after more than eight years of service, Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts announced today.

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