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Analyst: Amalur Intellectual Property Is Worth 20 Million Dollars (15.9 Million Euro)

The recent problems that have hit 38 Studios, the creator of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, could be solved by selling the intellectual property that the developer has put together, which is evaluated at 20 million dollars (15.9 million Euro). Michael Pachter, who watches the video game industry for Wedbush Securiti...

24 May 2012
09:30 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s “Allies” Update 1.3 Gets Video Description

BioWare released a brand new video for Star Wars: The Old Republic, this time focusing on the upcoming Game Update 1.3, which is dubbed “Allies.” Star Wars: The Old Republic is quite an impressive game but, despite the fact that BioWare is trying to hype it up by offering free weekends of play time for t...

23 May 2012
15:51 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets Another Free Weekend

Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic is getting another free weekend, allowing gamers to get into the title without paying anything in order to get a quick taste of how the experience works. The official blog for Star Wars: The Old Repub...

16 May 2012
10:29 GMT

The Old Republic Shift Might Mean Dragon Age III Delay to 2014

Fans of the Dragon Age franchise might have some time to wait before they get access to the third game in the series because a significant part of the team working on it has been shifted by developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts to the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. Michael Pachter, the analyst watching t...

10 May 2012
03:20 GMT

The Old Republic in Good Shape Despite Subscription Number Drop

Despite the drop in the number of subscribers for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the leaders of Electronic Arts believe that the MMO is still in good health and can increase its player number in the coming months. Frank Gibeau, who is the leader of the EA Games division, told investors that, “When we launched th...

9 May 2012
14:11 GMT

FIFA 12 Digital Sales Push Electronic Arts to Record Revenue

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced better than expected financial results for the fiscal year that ended on March 31 and says that it is seeing the first results of its new digitally oriented strategy. The company says that it has managed to beat expectations from analysts to post a non-GAAP revenue ...

8 May 2012
20:01 GMT

Just 1.3 Million Gamers Are Now Playing Star Wars: The Old Republic

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed that the subscription numbers for its MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have dropped to just 1.3 million people, down from a high of 1.7 million during the month of February. It seems that the number was mainly influenced by the gamers who used their initial 30-day fre...

8 May 2012
10:01 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic on Sale Until Tomorrow

BioWare is celebrating the semi-official Star Wars day, May 4 (as in, May the Fourth be with you) and is offering a major discount for Star Wars: The Old Republic, its recently launched massively multiplayer online game.Star Wars: The Old Republic was hyped up before its release and, while it's quite popular and...

5 May 2012
02:31 GMT

BioWare Plans More PvP and End Game Content for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO from BioWare and Electronic Arts, is set to soon get more content for Player versus Player interested gamers after the team working on it realized how interested the fan base was to compete directly against others.The BioWare team also confirmed plans to develop and launch more ev...

3 May 2012
04:50 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Might Get New Classes and Races

Video game developer BioWare has revealed that it will introduce a character transfer system for its MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic early during the summer and that it has plans to add more content before the end of the year, complete with new races and possibly new classes to try out. Dallas Dickinson, who is a se...

30 April 2012
05:51 GMT

BioWare Plans More Events for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Video game developer BioWare is ready to deliver more events for its MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic after the success and popularity of the recent Rakghoul Plague, which was introduced via the big 1.2 patch for the game. James Ohlen, who is the game director working on The Old Republic, has stated on Twitter that, ...

27 April 2012
03:04 GMT

Patch 1.2.1 for Star Wars: The Old Republic Ends Rakghoul Plague

Video game developer BioWare has launched the 1.2.1 patch for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, introducing a number of new fixes that the player community has been asking for and offering an official end of the Rakghoul Plague in-game event. A number of abilities, like Takedown, Charged Burst, Snipe and Tricks...

26 April 2012
07:58 GMT

BioWare Denies Decline in Star Wars: The Old Republic Subscription Numbers

Despite recent suggestions from an analyst that the subscriber numbers for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic are in decline, BioWare says that gamer interest in the video game has not declined and that it has no plans to merge servers. Daniel Erickson, a writing director working at BioWare, has told PC Gamer that ...

25 April 2012
04:15 GMT

Analyst: The Old Republic Is Already Losing Subscribers, Will Drop to 1.25 Million in One Year

The analysis group Cowen and Co., which frequently comments on the state of the video game industry, has announced that it has seen data suggesting that the subscription numbers for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, created by BioWare and Electronic Arts, are already dropping, with just 1.25 million players set to...

20 April 2012
08:39 GMT

BioWare Expands Star Wars: The Old Republic Legacy Free Play Time

Video game developer BioWare has announced that it is expanding the number of players who can take advantage of the Legacy Promotion for Star Wars: The Old Republic while also giving them more free playing time with the MMO. The move was made by the developer because of player feedback on the official forums. Greg ...

17 April 2012
07:03 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Offers Friday Bonuses for High Level and Returning Players

Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced three offers for those who are playing the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, as long as they manage to reach certain criteria before certain dates. High-level players, meaning those who have an active level 50 character will get 30 days of free...

13 April 2012
02:57 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.2 “Legacy” Available for Download Today

Star Wars: The Old Republic, the popular online game from BioWare, is set to receive its second big patch later today, in the form of Update 1.2, entitled “Legacy”. BioWare set out to deliver a sprawling online experience based on the hugely popular Star Wars franchise and, judging by its pretty big numb...

12 April 2012
06:31 GMT

EA Gets Criticized for Same-Sex Relationships in Mass Effect 3 and SW: TOR

Electronic Arts has revealed that it has begun receiving a lot of messages in recent weeks through which players of its games, particularly Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, are outraged because of the same-sex relationships present in those titles. Gay romance scenes are nothing new when it comes to en...

6 April 2012
03:08 GMT

New Star Wars: The Old Republic Free to Play Weekend Starts Today

BioWare is organizing another free to play weekend for its recent Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG, offering anyone interested a chance to try it out later today. Star Wars: The Old Republic came out last December and, while it's quite popular, BioWare has resorted to offering free-to-play weekends in the las...

5 April 2012
05:02 GMT

Blizzard Admits World of Warcraft Players Are Trying Out Star Wars: The Old Republic

Blizzard has admitted that quite a lot of its fans have suspended their subscriptions to its World of Warcraft online game in favor of other titles, like the recent Star Wars: The Old Republic, but it’s confident that many will come back sooner or later. World of Warcraft is still one of the most popular MMORP...

22 March 2012
19:11 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Update 1.2 Brings Changes to Crew Skill System

BioWare has just detailed the array of changes that will be made to the Crew Skill system in Star Wars: The Old Republic once the major update 1.2 is released. Star Wars: The Old Republic is now quite popular among online gamers, but BioWare wants to make the experience even more pleasant by releasing all sorts of u...

21 March 2012
05:28 GMT

BioWare Announces New Free Weekend for Star Wars: The Old Republic

The development team at BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that they are launching yet another free weekend for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which will start on Thursday, March 22 and will run until Monday, March 26. Another free weekend for the MMO was run during last weekend and only th...

21 March 2012
05:19 GMT

Class Choices Crucial for Future Star Wars: The Old Republic Content

Gamers who have managed to already consume all the class specific content delivered by the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic can look forward to more from developer BioWare in the coming months and should be careful about the choices that they have already made. Gabe Amatangelo, who is the leading designer working on ...

16 March 2012
03:50 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets Free Weekend Pass Trial

Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that all those interested in their Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO will be able to try out the experience for free during this extended weekend. The Weekend Pass Free Trial opens on Thursday, March 15 at exactly 12:01 AM Central Daylight Time ...

14 March 2012
05:15 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Update 1.2 Gets Showcased in New Video

BioWare has just deployed a brand new video for its Star Wars: The Old Republic massive multiplayer online role playing game, this time showing off the array of features included in the upcoming Update 1.2, called "Legacy".Star Wars: The Old Republic is close to reaching 2 million subscribers and BioWare wants to mak...

10 March 2012
11:21 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Might Reach 2 Million Subscribers in June

Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, has managed to get 1.7 million subscribers towards the end of February, and at least one analyst believes that the game will continue a steady growth and will reach 2 million paying players during June of this year. Dog Creut...

9 March 2012
05:41 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Update 1.2 Comes in April, Brings New Content, More Mechanics

The development team at BioWare working on the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have announced that they plan to release the 1.2 update for the game during the month of April and offered some details on the new content and the updated game mechanics that will be introduced. The new content includes the Lost Island Fl...

6 March 2012
08:01 GMT

Analyst: The Old Republic Can Be Long-Term Subscription Success

A report coming from market research firm DFC Intelligence has stated that Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, has the potential to remain successful in the long term while using the subscription business mode, despite a general weakness when it comes to the viab...

5 March 2012
16:51 GMT

BioWare Austin Looking for Star Wars: The Old Republic Testers

The Austin studio of video game developer BioWare has announced that fans of their recently launched MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic can get a chance to test upcoming content for the MMO in the coming weeks as long as they have the free time and live in the state of Texas in the United States. Joveth Gonzales, who i...

2 March 2012
03:05 GMT

Mass Effect Universe Has Large Possibility Space

Video game developer BioWare managed to deliver one of the most successful MMO launches of the last few years with Star Wars: The Old Republic. The leaders of the team now seem to be thinking about outright creating an MMO built around their Mass Effect universe. Greg Zeschuk, one of the co-founders of the BioWare d...

28 February 2012
04:30 GMT

BioWare Offers Information on Second Major Patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic

The developers at BioWare have offered some more information on the second major update for Star Wars: The Old Republic, saying that they will focus on making adjustments to game animations, tweaks to docking with planets and a new ability to roll on equipment. They also mentioned that more options for customization...

27 February 2012
09:23 GMT

Weekend Reading: The Old Republic of Continuing Subscriptions

Publisher Electronic Arts has announced, about two weeks after the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, that the game has managed to get 1 million players and that they together had put in more than 60 million hours of real world time into the MMO. Since then the company has also revealed in early February that th...

25 February 2012
13:01 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Coming to Australia and South East Asia in March

BioWare and Electornic Arts have confirmed that they’re going to officially deploy their latest Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG next month in territories like Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Star Wars: The Old Republic was launched late last year and quickly became the fastest selling MMO ...

16 February 2012
09:11 GMT

Problems Reported with PvP Ilum Quests in Star Wars: The Old Republic

A number of players who are engaged with the Player versus Player aspect of the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have reported a number of issues with the planet Ilum, saying that kills are sometimes not registered and that daily and weekly quests requirements cannot be met and no rewards are offered. It seems that t...

9 February 2012
05:57 GMT

BioWare Plans Video Features and Blogs for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Video game developer BioWare has announced that it plans to launch a new series of video guides and weekly features for loyal Star Wars: The Old Republic players, showing them some of the features of the game that they might not be aware of. Eric Musco, who is the social media coordinator working on the Star Wars MM...

6 February 2012
12:11 GMT

EA Posts Sales Figures for Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12, User Count for SW: TOR and Origin

Electronic Arts has released some impressive figures about two of its most successful games, Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12, while hyping up the popularity of its Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO and the Origin digital distribution service on the PC.  EA posted its financial earnings yesterday and, amongst the variet...

2 February 2012
09:31 GMT

BioWare Announces Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Summit for Early March

Video game developer BioWare has announced that it plans to organize the first Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Summit, between March 4 and 6 in Austin at the Double Tree Hotel. The developers say that guild leaders or their representatives will be able to meet the development team working on Star Wars: The Old Rep...

2 February 2012
09:02 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1.1 Now Available for Download

BioWare has just deployed a fresh patch for its latest Star Wars: The Old Republic online game, in the form of update 1.1.1, which aims at solving some of the various issues that popped up after last month’s patch 1.1 (aka Rise of the Rakghouls). Star Wars: The Old Republic became quite popular back in Decembe...

1 February 2012
06:52 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Can Co-Exist with World of Warcraft and Rift

The developers working on Star Wars: The Old Republic are keen to keep the game subscription-based and believe that there are enough players interested in the MMO genre to power the success of their own product, market leader World of Warcraft and competitors like Rift. James Ohlen, the game director working on Star...

26 January 2012
07:38 GMT

The Old Republic Development Was Like Teaching Elephants to Do Ballet

The developers at BioWare who have created the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have likened the development process for the video game with “teaching elephants to do ballet”, because of the large number of different teams that needed to be coordinated to produce content.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times t...

23 January 2012
19:51 GMT

Concerns Over The Old Republic Profitability Hit EA Share Price

A market analyst has sparked a run on the shares of video game publisher Electronic Arts after he expressed a number of concerns linked to the future prospects of the recently launched MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.Analyst Todd Mitchell, who is working for Brean Murray Carret & Co has told investors that he had &ld...

23 January 2012
15:01 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Most Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year for 2011, Says AbleGamers

The AbleGamers Foundation, which aims to push forward the cause of gamers that must deal with disabilities, has selected the BioWare made MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic as the Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year for 2011, saying that the game manages to offer a lot of options for gamers who must play with physica...

23 January 2012
08:07 GMT

New Video Shows Off the Content That’s Coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic Soon

In order to keep players interested in its recently released Star Wars: The Old Republic online game, BioWare, its developer, has just deployed a new video where it shows off the array of new content that will soon appear for it. Star Wars: The Old Republic has barely been out for a month and already quite a few pat...

23 January 2012
04:54 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets New Patch to Fix PvP Exploits After Update 1.1

BioWare has just deployed a brand new patch for its Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, this time to fix the variety of exploits related to its Player versus Player mechanics, which appeared after the recent release of update 1.1, also known as Rise of the Rakghouls. Star Wars: The Old Republic had a pretty smooth laun...

20 January 2012
04:30 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Get Surprise Events between Official Updates

Video game developer BioWare has just launched Rise of the Rakghouls, the first major update for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, but the company is keen to let players know that they are not taking it easy from now on and that solid support for the game is planned for the future.The overall aim of the developm...

19 January 2012
17:41 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1 Breaks PvP Combat, Causes New Issues

Barely did Star Wars: The Old Republic receive its first major patch, in the form of update 1.1, also known as Rise of the Rakghouls, and already new issues and glitches have been encountered, while the Ilum PvP area has now been flooded by lots of new players. Star Wars: The Old Republic is among the biggest and mo...

19 January 2012
08:18 GMT

Analyst: Electronic Arts Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on The Old Republic

An analyst has estimated that the total expenditure for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic from publisher Electronic Arts is over 500 million dollars (about 391.1 million Euro), which takes into account both the development and the marketing costs for the project.The estimate comes from Doug Creutz, who is an analys...

18 January 2012
18:41 GMT

Fan Base Disputes BioWare Claim that Only Low End PCs Have FPS Problems

Ever since BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, launched their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic a number of gamers have been complaining about the low performance of the game, even though the specs of their machines exceeded the minimum system requirements.Since then BioWare, through the v...

17 January 2012
04:47 GMT

SWTOR: BioWare Offers Details on Family System in Upcoming Legacy Update

Star Wars: The Old Republic has just received its first big update with the 1.1 Rise of the Raskghouls content but the developers at BioWare are unable to slow down and they are already talking about another significant update, which will introduce a whole new Legacy System.One of the core features of the new patch w...

16 January 2012
20:21 GMT

BioWare Details Star Wars: The Old Republic Update Plan

BioWare, the developer of Star Wars: The Old Republic, has just revealed what areas of the online game will be updated with its next major patch, confirming that features like the Legacy or Guild systems, not to mention the ability and perk mechanics, will be modified. Star Wars: The Old Republic is getting ready to...

16 January 2012
14:11 GMT


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