Category: Star Wars: The Old Republic News
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Cantina Tour at PAX South: A New Hope
This past weekend, several members of BioWare Austin descended upon San Antonio for PAX South in the latest Star Wars: The Old Republic Cantina Tour stop. In it, guests were treated to the usual Q&A interspersed with prizes for correctly answering…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: A Return to Story for 2015
During this weekend’s Star Wars: The Old Republic Cantina event being held at PAX South, Bioware distributed a letter penned by Bruce MacLean. In it, MacLean lays out more details about the team’s plans for 2015, including a return to story and each ch…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: But Everyone Else Was Doing It Too!
This week, Star Wars: the Old Republic put in a patch that had a fairly large number of tweaks to the game, mostly a lot of bugfixes and updates to various group activities such as changing which comms drop and rebalancing certain encounters. Sadly, h…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Three Things We Want from SWTOR in 2015
Star Wars: The Old Republic may never live up to the lofty expectations many had for it before it launched back in 2011, but the game seems pretty healthy despite all the initial setbacks. 2015 is a new year and with a new year comes new possibilities….
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Was Forged Alliances Really Necessary?
In their prelude to their current expansion, Shadow of Revan, Star Wars: the Old Republic spent five months giving us new big-picture epic content via four Flashpoints collectively known as Forged Alliances. I spent an afternoon playing all four of th…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan – Final Thoughts
On December 2nd, early purchasers of the Shadow of Revan expansion were granted access to two things: the new content that was being added for the $20 purchase of the expansion pack, and the new skills and streamlined combat systems. For people who hav…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan RIP #2 – New Planets
Introducing new environments to explore is a staple of MMORPG expansion packs, and Shadow of Revan does not disappoint. After the prologue missions, the new content kicks off on the relatively obscure planet of Rishi, home to some interesting looking b…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan Review In Progress #1
Since the first official announcement of Star Wars: the Old Republic, BioWare Austin has not been shy about letting its audience know that story is one of the main pillars that they felt was missing from the MMORPG space. A bulk of their effort develop…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Value of 12X Class XP
With the launch of early access for Shadow of Revan on Tuesday, Star Wars: the Old Republic retired a subscriber perk that had allowed hordes of filthy casuals like myself to finally get through each class story and have a character at the now-previous…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan Early Access Begins
Bioware has announced that Early Access for the latest Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion has officially kicked off. Subscribers will have a full week to enjoy Shadow of Revan before it opens to all players. The update also brings to bear the new Di…