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The biggest Star Wars: The Old Republic demonstration to date

David — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:28:26 +0000

The folks over at Torocast have a 30-minute video of the PAX 2010 preview of SWTOR by Bioware. The footage is raw and there are some glitches, but it’s one of the most in-depth demos to date. Thanks to Darka on our forums for starting the conversation on this. There’s an enormous amount of information [...]

Put on the hardhats people…

Edward — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:44:14 +0000

Okay, who wants to build stuff? Whether it is swords, guns, buildings, starfighters, capital class starships like Star Destroyers or space stations like the Death Star… Um, wait a sec… No, I don’t think I want to build a Death Star. People tend to blow them up before they can really be used. And it [...]

Blaster versus Lightsaber

Edward — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:25:33 +0000

Ok, we all know what happens when someone brings a sword to a gunfight. Now it is POSSIBLE for a highly skilled and sneaky sword wielder to beat a person with a gun. It has been done. Much as I detest the idea of drawing on Hollywood for examples, the 1971 Charles Bronson movie Red [...]

Space Combat in SWTOR: a glimpse

David — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:04:08 +0000

It’s been the hot point of discussion over the past month or two in SWTOR circles, and things are about to get much hotter. Bioware have released a trailer of the space combat component of SWTOR. As you’ll see in the trailer below, it’s looking like a mighty nice aspect of the game, particularly given [...]

Good Sith and Evil Jedi? Wha…?

Edward — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:12:52 +0000

Jedi and Sith. Light and darkness. Good and evil. Simple, right? Bioware seems to be hell bent on making what we thought was simple complicated. The whole good/bad thing gets kind of fuzzy, like Dr. Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters put it. Those of us who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy know about [...]

Sith Sunday – SWTOR in the news

David — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:38:19 +0000

1. From the official SWTOR site: the Mandalorian Wars get a lore update, and new playable species are announced. Sith Pureblood (Sith Warrior), Zabrak (Sith Inquistors), Miraluka (Jedi Knight) and Mirialans (Jedi Consular) are the four newies. 2. From the SWTOR forums: some nice debate on holiday events being included in SWTOR, a thread on [...]

Time to fight!

Edward — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:21:40 +0000

Well, it’s official. And yes, I admit I had a geekasm when they announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic would include space combat. Yes, I even went ‘squee’. Can you blame me? Most of my fondest memories are of X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance. What can I say? I [...]

Profile: Gestahlt (SWTOR forums roleplayer)

Edward — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:11:05 +0000

For this week’s piece I am interviewing another regular at the TOR forums. Just about anyone who follows any of the Star Wars: The Old Republic Website forums at all has likely seen a post by this writer. Love this writer’s work or hate it, you have to respect the skill and sheer writing ability [...]

Sith Sunday – SWTOR in the news

David — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:50:17 +0000

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?

Edward — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:24:50 +0000

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 [...]

To Beta or Not to Beta

Edward — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:13:20 +0000

Ok, the day has finally come. Lucasarts and Bioware have finally announced game testing for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We are approximately 10 months from launch and from what we have seen so far of the game in demos and videos, it looks remarkably well polished and ready to go for a game just [...]

How Do We Get There? And Can We Smash Things Along the Way? Huh? Can We?

Edward — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:53 +0000

We all know what this is, right? Who doesn’t want to drive something like that? As long as those pesky airspeeders are kept away, you would be virtually unstoppable. One of my favorite memories from a video game is from Battlefront 2 when you get to pilot the AT-AT in an assault on the Rebel [...]

Do We Get Rolled By Character Roles?

Edward — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:48:15 +0000

Lots of people from all over the place seem to be getting upset about the fact that Bioware ‘seems’ to have followed the pattern many other MMORPGs have over the years. It’s called the holy trinity: healer, tank and damage dealer. What is wrong with that? For a character to be a jack of all [...]

Jon Stewart interviews George Lucas

David — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:41:51 +0000

Via the Kansas City Star: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart will be interviewing George Lucas as part of Celebration V, the festivities marking the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. The event kicks off on August 12th at the Orange Country Convention Center in the United States. The obvious question: how do we get [...]

Sith Sunday – SWTOR in the news

David — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:34:07 +0000

It’s hard to do a roundup of SWTOR news at the end of a huge week like the last one has been, but here goes: 1. The Wall Street Journal has a great article contrasting financial reform in the United States to some Star Wars lore of a similar vein. 2. For the comic-obsessive (like [...]

Introducing: TOROZ Pro iPad and iPhone application

David — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:39:32 +0000

Over the past two months that our free TOROZ Reader app has been available, we’ve been rapt at the level of interest it’s created. Every day a handful of people at least have downloaded the application so they have a simple way of browsing SWTOR news. Over that time we’ve been working on a Pro [...]

Courage and ‘Hope’

Edward — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:53:00 +0000

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 [...]

Hope: the new SWTOR trailer

David — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:23:23 +0000

Today saw the launch of the second cinematic trailer, and like the first it’s a tasty piece of art. Hell, it’s more than that, it’s a piece that evokes the same level of excitement that the movie releases did for me – it’s a tight, dramatic 5 minutes that further tweaks the excitement levels. Plus [...]

New SWTOR cinematic trailer: preview

David — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:43:33 +0000

Thanks to the Jedi Archives Online, the sneak preview of the cinematic trailer launching at E3 in a few days, is available for your viewing pleasure. As you’ll see below, not surprisingly there’s not much given away but it certainly provides a taste of what we can expect. There’s already a huge discussion thread running [...]

Twi’lek, Chiss and E3 predictions

David — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:35:52 +0000

With the E3 Games Expo imminent, the pre-expo information has picked up in a big way. One of note is an in-depth piece over at Gamespot. Although a playable Rattataki race was confirmed back in May, I don’t believe Twi’lek and Chiss have been confirmed prior to now. The article also contains some great descriptions [...]