Star Wars Galaxies

Remember Star Wars Galaxies With This Poignant Memory Book

3:30PM December 23, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

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

11:30PM December 21, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

Goodbye, Star Wars Galaxies

3:30PM December 16, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

In Real Life

Calader’s Art Takes Star Wars To The Brink

2:00AM October 14, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

Here Is How Star Wars: Galaxies Will Be Won

12:30PM October 7, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

Finally, A Star Wars Game Where Everybody Dies

8:30PM August 31, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

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

6:00AM July 17, 2011 | Owen Good

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? More »

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

3:00PM June 30, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »