Sith Sunday – SWTOR in the news

It’s been a rather big week for SWTOR news this week – the larger number of people involved with beta-testing is certainly creating some momentum, including on our own forums: 1. Bioware released a music trailer (more on that from us later in the week), an in-depth developer blog on music in SWTOR, and the [...]

Is privacy going the way of the dodo?

Well, it’s official. Anonymity is on its way out on the internet. Recently, Blizzard Entertainment announced the RealID system for the World of Warcraft MMORPG. The stated idea of the system as to provide a social aspect to the game. If that was what they intended, they failed miserably. What they have created, is a [...]

Courage and ‘Hope’

Last year was absolutely EPIC at E3. The cinematic trailer for The Old Republic was a masterpiece. The Sith assault on the Jedi temple on Coruscant in ‘Deceived’ has to be seen to be believed. No one doubted that Star Wars: The Old Republic was going to be epic before that trailer. After it? There [...]

SWTOR: Comic-Con news roundup

The SWTOR PR-people have been on a roll in recent months with a regular drip-feed of new information to keep interest well and truly piqued. This weekend saw the SWTOR show roll into San Diego’s Comic-Con. In the lead-up, IGN conducted a Q&A session with the SWTOR team (Dallas Dickinson – Senior Content Producer, BioWare, [...]

E3 2009 – Bioware and Lucas Arts’ press conference

June’s E3 expo saw Bioware‘s Ray Muzyka and LucasArt‘s Darrell Rodriguez front the assembled throng to outline progress on SWTOR. Not surprisingly, there was no talk of release dates but there’s some other interesting information given, including the disclosure that all players and non-player characters will be fully voiced, apparently making it one of the [...]