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Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will get a number of significant changes to the economic model of the game, designed to make it easier for players to get access to all the content it has to offer.
The biggest change is a significant... |
5 March 2012
04:24 GMT |
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We're letting you know about one of our interesting downloads intended for gamers: the 1.00.06 driver version for the Razer Star Wars: The Old Republic mouse and headset.
The SWTOR gear comes loaded with a lot of features, but the driver also supports the classic Razer Naga gaming mouse. The SWTOR mouse s... |
9 January 2012
10:40 GMT |
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It’s the first full week of the new year and 2012 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years for video game releases in recent memory, a fact that we are ready to celebrate by launching a new series of articles, under the tag Incoming 2012, which will look at the upcoming releases and at why they matter to pl... |
8 January 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has launched a new patch for its MMO Star Wars: The OId Republic, fixing a number of problems that the player base has been reporting but has failed to eliminate a glitch that causes enemies to stop attacking any player character who begins to dance.The main changes in the new patch are a... |
5 January 2012
02:52 GMT |
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As the past is getting ready to swallow 2011 and the present keeps moving inexorably towards 2012 another analyst has offered some information on the trends that he expects to become the norm during next year.Speaking to IndustryGamers David Cole, who is watching the video game industry for DFC intelligence, has stat... |
3 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO from BioWare and Electronic Arts, might be the biggest launch of the year but for one of the main developers working on it the emotions started when he realized the size of the project.Speaking to CVG Alex Freed, who is the senior writer working on the game, stated, “We'... |
20 December 2011
21:41 GMT |
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Doug Creutz, who is an analyst working at Cowen & Company and watches the video game industry, has estimated that more than 1.5 million gamers have been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new MMO from developer BioWare and publisher Activision, before the official launch date.He links his number of pre-launch g... |
20 December 2011
05:54 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld is out in Japan, with 26 full launch titles, and that dwarfs all other launches for the week, including the PC launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the latest MMO from BioWare and Electronic Arts.PlayStation VitaBlazBlue: Continuum Shift II PlusBrowser Sangokushi Touch BattleProject N.... |
19 December 2011
03:39 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be out yet but the leading developers working on the MMO are already thinking about its long term future and what features the BioWare team needs to add in order to keep gamers interested in paying their monthly subscription.James Ohlen, who is the game director working on Star W... |
15 December 2011
20:21 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it plans to launch a new expansion for their MMO Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures on December 15, the same day that the older Star Wars galaxies is set to shut down. The expansion, called Battle of Umbara, will add a whole new combat zone to explore and will also get acce... |
2 December 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at publisher Activision Blizzard, recently talked about how he does not understand the economic fundamentals behind the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic.But two leading analysts of the industry believe that even if it needs to split money with LucasArts, Electronic Arts w... |
1 December 2011
07:02 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the current Chief Executive Officer at publisher Activision Blizzard, has attacked the upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare and Electronic Arts, saying that he does not understand the business fundamentals that underpin the game.Speaking at the Reuters Media Summit Bobby Kotick stated, ... |
30 November 2011
07:40 GMT |
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The developers at BioWare and the publisher Electronic Arts have announced that those who have pre-ordered the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic can get up to five days of early access to the game, meaning that at least some players will be able to get access to the experience on December 15.
The Frequently Asked Ques... |
8 November 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that it has now launched the third phase of the Pre-Launch Guild Program for its MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.This basically means that a number of guilds, created by players, will be transferred to the game for launch day as long as they met a set of criteria.Four member... |
4 November 2011
06:07 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced adjusted net sales of 1.03 billion dollars (726 million Euro) for the second quarter of its current fiscal year, which ended on September 30, beating its internal projections and the estimations made by analysts.At the same time the company says that it has posted a ... |
28 October 2011
09:15 GMT |
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Free-to-play MMO projects are all the rage these days, with developers reporting growing player numbers and higher revenue, but at least one leading MMO developer believes that subscriptions are still important.Speaking during an interview with Eurogamer, Mike Morhaime, who is the president of Blizzard, stated, &ldqu... |
28 October 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic, from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, is the biggest MMO launch of the year and one of the leading developers on the game says that playing it actually makes it hard to enjoy other titles in the same genre.Speaking to The Gaming Liberty Ray Muzyka, who is one of the co-fou... |
19 October 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that they are moving the European launch date for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic so that it coincides with the December 20 one that was announced for North America.The announcement was made by Stephen Reid, who is the leader of the community outrea... |
18 October 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning might have launched with high hopes and talk of World of Warcraft slaying, but since then the game has lost players and seemed to be destined to be turned into a free-to-play project to get increase gamer numbers. At the GDC Online event Eugene Evans, who is the leader of the Mythi... |
14 October 2011
02:51 GMT |
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After a very long wait, which included rumors about further delays, the developers at the Austin studio of BioWare and the executives at publisher Electronic Arts have announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be launched this year, on December 20 in the United States and two days later in Europe.This is good n... |
8 October 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Ever since BioWare was bought by Electronic Arts a number of long term fans have talked about how the developer will be forced to create the game that the publisher is interested in and will need to give up all its creative freedom.But speaking to Eurogamer Greg Zeschuk, who is one of the co-founders of BioWare, has ... |
5 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that the beta testing phase for its upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will be kicking off again this weekend, with the number of players invited to take part in the testing increased.The company is not saying exactly how many players will take part in the weekend test... |
5 October 2011
04:54 GMT |
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After Valve's Gabe Newell had nothing but good things to say about the Origin digital distribution service from Electronic Arts two executives from that company talked about the respectful competition between the two companies.Peter Moore, who is the new Chief Operations Officer working at Electronic Arts, has t... |
4 October 2011
16:31 GMT |
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It's been another rather busy week for the Games section of Softpedia as the flow of new titles seems ready to overpower even the most dedicated of gamers.We have full reviews for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, the realism and multiplayer focused title from Tripwire Interactive, Driver: San Francisco, th... |
2 October 2011
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The leading executives at developer BioWare have said that they are planning an aggressive schedule of content launches for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which will begin just after the official launch of the game.Ray Muzyka, who is one of the co-founders of BioWare, has told GamesIndustry.biz that, “I... |
28 September 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts and developer BioWare have finally announced that launch date for their Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, telling players to prepare to play it on December 20 in North America and on the 22nd in Europe.The announcement will come as a relied for those who were worried that the game might slip ... |
26 September 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has confirmed that it will be offering companion characters in its upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic an option to engage in same sex relationships.The company has also said that this option will not be implemented when the game is launched but that it will be added via a patch some... |
14 September 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts says that, while at the moment its digital distribution service Origin is only delivering first party titles, there are plans in place to expand its offerings and make it a clear competitor to the Valve created Steam platform.Speaking at a digitally oriented UBS conference in Lond... |
12 September 2011
08:42 GMT |
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No, Star Wars: The Old Republic does not yet have a launch date yet, but this has not stopped the developers working on the MMO to talk about the choices they have made during the development process, this time focusing on how the graphics style was chosen.
Speaking to Metro about how the development team created ... |
25 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Dragon Age II has been a pretty divisive video game and actually managed to split the player base, with some long-term players coming from Origins hating the changes that BioWare brought while others were attracted to the experience exactly because of them.
It seems that BioWare has been keeping a close eye on how... |
22 August 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed during a presentation for its upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic that it plans to limit the availability of both physical and digital copies for the title in order to make sure the launch of the game goes smoothly.EA and developer BioWare say that server crashes... |
19 August 2011
05:50 GMT |
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The EA Sports division has announced that in 2012 players will be able to pick up a new installment of the FIFA Street franchise, which will use much of the underlying technology now included in the main FIFA 12 release, including Player Impact Engine and better Artificial Intelligence on both attack and defense.The ... |
16 August 2011
10:27 GMT |
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For this end of the week round up we have a Weekend Reading feature that deals with the way the future of gaming might look if all games become, at the same time, platforms for the sale of more content and a EndWeekGame piece that tells the world what we are planning to engage with during our extended weekend.We also... |
14 August 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Cowen & Company, one of the analysis firms that watch the video game industry, has announced that it has increased its estimates for the BioWare made MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, with sales now projected at more than 3 million units during its first year on sale.It seems that the main reason for the increased est... |
12 August 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Fans of the Star Wars: The Old Republic might continue to be frustrated by the fact that the game still does not have a clear launch date but they can take comfort in the fact that the developers at BioWare do not plan to place any sort of geography based restrictions on the video games.Stephen Reid, who is a senior ... |
10 August 2011
18:31 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by the announcements that Blizzard has made about Diablo III, from the fact that the game will require an always-on Internet connection to run to the fact that there will be no mods allowed for it.
But we also managed to deliver a Softpedia review for Pro Cycling Manager 2011 this week... |
7 August 2011
04:21 GMT |
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We know a lot about the BioWare-made MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic but, despite all the information about the combat, the development of characters and the way the story is build, the developers and publisher Electronic Arts are still not ready to give a clear launch date for the game.
James Ohlen, who is the ga... |
4 August 2011
16:11 GMT |
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This is my first week back, doing the Gamer's Week roundup after two weeks away and I must say that it's a good week to come back, just before the beginning of August and the important game releases that it is set to bring.This week we have created a full Softpedia review of Alice: Madness Returns and a Qui... |
31 July 2011
07:41 GMT |
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We still do not have a clear launch date for the BioWare developed MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, but publisher Electronic Arts is already talking about how the game will perform when it is out and about the infrastructure that will be needed to support the players that are interested in the experience.
Frank Gi... |
27 July 2011
18:31 GMT |
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The analysts who are watching the video game market for Cowen & Company have announced that they have raised the first year estimated sales figures for the DICE developed and Electronic Arts published Battlefield 3 from 8 to 11 million copies. The decision from the analyst firm was made because of the strength of th... |
25 July 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that they are planning to make at least one important announcement linked to the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic at the panel that they will be holding at ComicCon during Thursday.
The official announcement says, “At 3:30PM on Thursday... |
18 July 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO that is being developed by BioWare and will be published by Electronic Arts, might not yet have a clear launch date, but the executives in charge of it are more than happy to talk about how the fact that they spent a lot of money on it is a sign that the game will deliver both qua... |
1 July 2011
14:51 GMT |
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A group of players who have created a petition to keep the MMO Star Wars Galaxies running past its already announced end date have revealed that they are planning to launch a class action lawsuit against Sony Online Entertainment.
It seems that the group is 50 members strong at the moment and that the main reason ... |
30 June 2011
04:54 GMT |
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There are people who have seen Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, at the E3 trade show for the last 3 years and a lot of gamers hope that the game will finally be launched in the last half of this year.But the new features that BioWare has shown at the 2011 E3 a... |
8 June 2011
22:49 GMT |
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Video game company Electronic Arts will have its E3 new conference during Monday but one major piece of news that it plans to deliver has already been revealed with various news outlets reporting that the publisher will introduce a new PC based digital distribution service called Origin.It seems that Origin will be v... |
3 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The two leading developers working at BioWare have said that they are prepared to see a lot of comparisons between Star Wars: The Old Republic, their upcoming MMO, and the Blizzard-created World of Warcraft.
Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, who are two founders of BioWare and now also lead role-playing game developmen... |
20 May 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, has said that in his evaluation the development costs associated with Star Wars: The Old Republic, the upcoming MMO from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, amount to about 80 million dollars, which means that the gam... |
9 May 2011
18:51 GMT |
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The upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which is being worked on by BioWare and should launch in the second half of the year, will be one of the biggest launches of the year for publisher Electronic Arts, but one analyst believes that an MMO based around the Mass Effect series could be an even greater success.... |
9 May 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts, one of the biggest in the industry, have announced that, for the fiscal year that has ended on March 31, it has lost no less than 276 million dollars, while the revenue generated during the same period has reached 3.589 billion dollars.
For the previous one-year fiscal period,... |
5 May 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic has been widely seen as being one of the biggest video game launches of 2011, but publisher Electronic Arts seems to be hedging its bets when it comes to the release date, suggesting that it might finally be set for the early days of 2012. Frank Gibeau, who is the president of the EA Game... |
5 May 2011
05:49 GMT |
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