the old republic
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Coruscant, Where Nothing Grows — Except Power
7:00AM Owen Good
Oh great. I’ve been calling it Corrus-kant all these years. Next someone’s gonna tell me I’ve been mispronouncing Eidos, too. Well, however it’s pronounced, this six-minute vid shows us how BioWare built the city-planet of the Star Wars Universe. More »
Culture
Gamescom Booth Blitz: The Old Republic
6:30PM Brian Ashcraft | The good thing about The Old Republic booth is that it sure looks all Old Republically. Just imagine publisher LucasArts made it look New Republicish? More »
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Mandalorians Up For A Fight In The Old Republic
2:30PM Luke Plunkett
Here’s a new trailer for Bioware’s Old Republic, telling the tale of the Mandalorians. You know, those guys Boba Fett dresses up like. More »
News
The Old Republic Introduces Bounty Hunters
12:00AM Owen Good | The Old Republic’s Web site has put up a bio for the upcoming game’s bounty hunter class, giving us all a look at a proto-Fett who activates his jetpack with a wrist-worn laptop or something. More »
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The Old Republic: Your ‘Personal Star Wars Saga’
5:00AM Owen Good | Bioware and LucasArts have put out another video documentary on Star Wars: The Old Republic, teasing the storyline and characters of the MMO, set in a “relatively unexplored timeframe of the Star Wars canon.” More »
Old Republic Combat Will Be Choreographed, Fabulous
9:20AM Owen Good | Regular-kind MMO combat ain’t gonna cut it in Star Wars: The Old Republic, says BioWare. The developer is gunning for something a little more impressive. To hear BioWare honcho Greg Zeschuk describe it, we’re all gonna be thinking “From the top now! Five, six, seven, eight!” every time you fire up the oversized lightsaber in PvP. More »
The Drawback of Multiplayer: Other Players
5:00AM Owen Good | People who call me an elitist are quite mistaken: I’m actually a misanthrope. It’s not that don’t associate with certain people, I don’t associate with most people. Present company excluded of course. Or included. However you want to read it. John Walker at Rock, Paper, Shotgun feels somewhat the same way, and that’s why he’s fired up about The Old Republic. And he has a novel argument for why it’ll save MMO gaming, for antisocial types like myself. More »
