Star Wars: The Old Republic

Thirteen years ago, EverQuest opened a door that would influence online gaming forever. It taught us how to camp world bosses, how painful dying can be, and most importantly, how to make a ham sandwich and take a shower in under five minutes so you can get back to the game ASAP. It isn’t the [...]

By all traditional measures, the launch for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been successful. But as many developers — especially Funcom and Sony Online Entertainment can tell you, a successful launch doesn’t mean much unless you follow it up soon with high-quality content patches to keep people in… Tags: old republic, sony online entertainment, [...]

24 hours before closure, Star Wars Galaxies does something few MMOs get a chance to: declare a winner. Like the world’s longest game of Battlefield, Imperial and Rebel control is assessed city by city, planet by planet. For years, players aligned to either faction have fought for this territory: now, at the end, it all [...]

Out with the New Hope, in with the Old Republic. Tonight at 9 PM PST, Sony Online Entertainment will close Star Wars Galaxies forever. Before that happens, expect no-holds-barred battles of wackiness, fireworks, a PvP battle on Endor, space battles, and 50-foot-tall giant ewoks. We’ll be there to capture every speck of insanity beginning at [...]

Sci-fi MMO Star Wars Galaxies’ servers will close on 15 December at 9PM PST (1PM GMT), according to a post on the game’s official forum, and reported by VG247. The Galactic Civil War will end 24 hours earlier, with various battles and events ocurring during the morning of 15 December. It’s been a grand intergalactic [...]

Sci-fi MMO Star Wars Galaxies’ servers will close on 15 December at 9PM PST (1PM GMT), according to a post on the game’s official forum, and reported by VG247. The Galactic Civil War will end 24 hours earlier, with various battles and events ocurring during the morning of 15 December. It’s been a grand intergalactic [...]

Sci-fi MMO Star Wars Galaxies’ servers will close on 15 December at 9PM PST (1PM GMT), according to a post on the game’s official forum, and reported by VG247. The Galactic Civil War will end 24 hours earlier, with various battles and events ocurring during the morning of 15 December. It’s been a grand intergalactic [...]

Sci-fi MMO Star Wars Galaxies’ servers will close on 15 December at 9PM PST (1PM GMT), according to a post on the game’s official forum, and reported by VG247. The Galactic Civil War will end 24 hours earlier, with various battles and events ocurring during the morning of 15 December. It’s been a grand intergalactic [...]

Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming MMO/FPS hybrid Planetside 2 is aiming to shake things up a bit. Taking a Halo-esque approach to its sci-fi universe, it aims to combine the persistent world of an MMO with the visceral, responsive mechanics of a first person shooter. As part of our six page preview in issue 233 of [...]

We’ve already reported on John Smedley’s take on MMO that use a subscription model. The Sony Online Entertainment president told gamesindustry.biz they’re on the way out, basically: “In my opinion [Star Wars: The Old Republic] is going to be the last large scale MMO to use the traditional subscription business model. Why do I think [...]