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Star Wars: The Old Republic now free to play

John Callaham — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:13:02 +0000

BioWare and Electronic Arts' MMO game Star Wars The Old Republic has now made the transition to a free-to-play game, less than a year after its launch as a monthly subscription MMO. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic to add more free-to-play options [Update]

John Callaham — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:25:01 +0100

Bioware has announced it will allow people to play Star Wars The Old Republic for free up to level 50 (with restrictions) sometime later this fall, while reducing the retail version's price to $14.99. Read more...

Star Wars: The Old Republic now free up to level 15

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:51:53 +0100

EA has introduced a new "free trial" to Star Wars: The Old Republic that allows hesitant players to check out the MMO for free until level 15, in the hopes that it will stem the flow of deserters Read more...

Layoffs hit Star Wars: The Old Republic team

John Callaham — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:52:50 +0100

BioWare has admitted that some of its Star Wars: The Old Republic team members at its Austin offices have been laid off, although specific numbers were not officially announced. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic shedding subscribers

John Callaham — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:06:22 +0100

Electronic Arts announced that its MMO Star Wars The Old Republic only had 1.3 million subscribers in the last quarter, well below the 1.7 million users it had when the game launched in December 2011 Read more...

Rumors of large upcoming layoffs at EA hit the net [Update]

John Callaham — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:41:16 +0100

A story, which cites several unnamed sources, claims that Electronic Arts is getting ready to announce large layoffs that could go as high as 1,000 team members, or 11 percent of EA's workforce. Read more...

Gaming news round-up: December 7-8

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:59:16 +0000

In the latest gaming news round-up, we find out when Star Wars The Old Republic pre-order players will get to play the MMO, a cool way to discourage pirates from getting Serious Sam 3 and more. Read more...

Gaming news round-up: November 12-13

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:19:14 +0000

Today's gaming news round-up includes Nintendo talking about US sales of its 3DS console, a new online stress test for Star Wars The Old Republic and a Team Fortress 2-Saints Row The Third crossover. Read more...

Gaming news round-up: November 5-6

John Callaham — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:10:58 +0000

The weekend's PC gaming news round-up includes word of a new sales milestone for Minecraft, a celeb-filled trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and lots more. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic to launch December 20

John Callaham — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:07:12 +0100

Star Wars The Old Republic, the long awaited MMO from developer BioWare and publishers Electronic Arts and LucasArts, will finally launch on December 20 in the US and December 22 in Europe. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic beta weekends delayed

John Callaham — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:47:44 +0100

BioWare has revealed that it is delaying its planned closed beta weekends for its upcoming MMO Star Wars The Old Republic, in part because the developer needs to test a new build of the game in-house. Read more...

Star Wars: The Old Republic beta weekends to start Friday

John Callaham — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:42:44 +0100

As promised earlier this year, BioWare will be giving some members of the public a chance to play the long awaited MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic in weekend beta events starting this Friday. Read more...

EA to limit initial sales of Star Wars The Old Republic

John Callaham — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:32:09 +0100

Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it will be limiting the number of copies sold for its long awaited MMO Star Wars The Old Republic. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic pre-orders numbers set record for EA

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:35:22 +0100

Game publisher Electronic Arts started pre-orders for the highly anticipated MMO Star Wars The Old Republic just a week ago. However the company announced on Tuesday that the pre-order numbers for the BioWare-developed game have... Read more...

Electronic Arts reveals latest financial numbers

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:53:04 +0100

Game publisher Electronic Arts is the latest tech based company to report its earnings for the quarter that ended on June 30. According to EA's press release the publisher recorded a non-GAAP revenue amount of... Read more...

Gaming news round up: July 20-21

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:28:12 +0100

Comic-Con has arrived and with it comes a ton of interesting game announcements. Let's go over them now: Capcom has announced Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3. This new version of the crossover fighting game for the... Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic pre-orders begin; Collector's Edition revealed

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:54:16 +0100

The long awaited MMO Star Wars The Old Republic can now be pre-ordered from publisher Electronic Arts and a number of game retailers. The game from developer BioWare, set thousands of years before the Star... Read more...

E3 2011: Razer reveals Star Wars The Old Republic products

John Callaham — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:17:47 +0100

Star Wars The Old Republic is aiming to be the biggest MMO game launch of the past several years. Today at E3 2011, PC gaming peripheral maker Razer announced a new agreement to make officially... Read more...

A look ahead to E3 2011 - The Games We Most Want To See

John Callaham — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:30:30 +0100

While there are lots of other game related events that happen every year, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is always the one event where the most new games are announed and/or shown for the first time... Read more...

EA to launch new Origin PC game download service

John Callaham — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:01:39 +0100

Publisher Electronic Arts is launching a new digital download store for its PC games starting today. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new download store will be called Origin and will feature over 150... Read more...