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TORWars Podcast #77: The Big Subscribers Discussion

Hello again, fellow TORWarriors, and welcome to this week’s podcast!  This is a very different show for us, as we deal with a couple of serious subjects in the SWTOR universe.  Of course, as we always do, we cover all the latest news, stories, updates, and future plans for Star Wars: The Old Republic.  Beyond [...]

Star Wars: The Old Republic official podcast launches, talks past and future updates

As far as things with both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Episode I’ in the title go, the first official SW:TOR podcast is the least likely to make fans cry. Hosts Eric Musco and Brooks Guthrie talk to Daniel Erickson and Damion Schubert and the process of getting the Legacy update live and discuss what’s coming next [...]

TORWars Podcast #74: Rakghouls, Rakghouls and More Rakghouls

Yes, friends, that time is upon on once again – it’s time for another TORWars podcast!  This week’s show is, once again, overstuffed with Star Wars: The Old Republic news and information.  We’ve got the very latest in breaking SWTOR news stories, we cover the most recent developer comments, and we take a good look [...]

Rakghoul plague strikes Star Wars: The Old Republic in secret world event

When Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Legacy update launched last week, players didn’t know that it was carrying a secret payload. Sudden world events have been cropping up in BioWare’s MMO since yesterday, when a news broadcast warned players to stay away from Tatooine. The Rakghoul plague, which BioWare invented for the original Knights of [...]

Star Wars: The Old Republic patch 1.2 out tomorrow, raid monsters prepare for beating

It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for the Legacy system improvements contained in patch 1.2 for Star Wars: The Old Republic, but The wait is almost up. TOR will finally get the tangled, dysfunctional family trees that a Star Wars game deserves when the update goes live tomorrow. The patch will let us weave [...]

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Dumbest Glitches

Adventurers across the stars are witnessing some of the most engaging online experiences while playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. Traveling across planets, defeating mighty foes that stand in their way, and of course sometimes running into a very well known fact: Nothing is sacred within the Star Wars galaxy. Here are a few hilarious [...]

How Bioware wrote Star Wars: The Old Republic

The most ambitious aspect of Star Wars: The Old Republic is the staggering amount of writing involved. Every class has their own storyline that unfolds over dozens of hours. Every character you speak to has their own voiced dialogue. It has to be one of the biggest writing projects undertaken by a game studio. How [...]

BioWare working on server transfers for SWTOR, but no ETA yet

We like Star Wars: The Old Republic so much that we put a (very big) number on it, but it definitely has a few kinks that need ironing out. Foremost, certain servers are more crowded than movie theaters on Episode One’s opening day, but their occupants are as disappointed as, well, Star Wars fans on [...]

Avoid These Star Wars Servers

It’s now the day after Star Wars: The Old Republic officially launched and certain servers are experiencing long wait times to join. Around the IGN offices we’re having the same problem, but we keep chipping away at our Star Wars: The Old Republic review in progress… Tags: old republic, star wars

Star Wars: The Old Republic could have been A Game of Thrones MMO

Bioware’s multi-million dollar Star Wars MMO is alive and kicking. Throngs of players are battling through its vast zones, looting and levelling and making “I used to play Skyrim but then I took a TOR in the knee” jokes. It’s hard to imagine that it all began with three men sitting in a room in [...]