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EA said during its call to investors last night that full game downloads contributed nearly $100 million during Q4 in fiscal year 2013, a figure which is up 64% year-over-year.

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EA has announced that it has signed an exclusive multi-year publishing deal with The Walt Disney Company for the Star Wars franchise, with games to come from BioWare, DICE and Visceral.

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Steam is celebrating International Star Wars Day with a sale on games taking place in the venerable universe.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic players will soon be able to radically alter their characters in handy-dandy customisation booths.

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A new playable species is coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic with Game Update 2.1. It’s the Cathar, and you can check out a video preview of the playable race below. That’s all that has been shown so far, but there’s another look on Facebook. Thanks, Talkar.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic developer could be gearing up to announce that the galaxy’s resident feline race – the Cathar – will become playable. Either way it’s teasing something cat-related.

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The first digital expansion for Star wars: The Old Republic is finally live to all comers. Grab Rise of the Hutt Cartel now for $20, or $10 if you’re a subscriber, and gain access to new missions, a higher level cap, Elder Game content, Macrobinoculars and Seeker Droids, and the planet Makeb. Not convinced? Check out the launch trailer through the break.

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The latest Star Wars: The Old Republic dev blog post highlights the most crucial, anticipated, and weight addition to the MMORPG accompanying the Rise of the Hutt Cartel digital expansion: macrobinoculars. Yes friends, now you can survey your surroundings in keen detail. This is what we live for; this is why the bones of our hands are permanently fused into the WASD configuration – so we can gaze at virtual landscapes in freedom. Beautiful. It also allows you to find hidden objects or something; I don’t know, I’m too busy questioning my life choices to read the whole thing.

Thanks, Massively.

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion has received its 2.0 update, entitled “Scum and Villany”. We’ve got the trailer right here.

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Sony and Microsoft have to do something dramatic or the traditional console market is in trouble, according to former BioWare leader Greg Zeschuk.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Rise of the Hutt Cartel has received its 2.0 update, entitled ‘Scum and Villany’. It raises the level cap for all classes to 55 and much more. Check out the full patch notes here.

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Disney is closing LucasArts development studio, laying off a reported 150 staffers and according to a representative for the firm, development on Star Wars 1313 along with Star Wars: First Assault is in limbo.

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inXile has confirmed that Chris Avellone will officially join the design team for Torment: Tides of Numenera, according to a press release issued by the firm.

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GDC 2013 is now under-way in San Francisco and it’s already produced some very interesting news, including a heavy focus on next-gen and indie chatter. Dave Cook recaps.

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BioWare has announced the closure of Star Wars: the Old Republic’s Asia Pacific servers, with local gamers to be shuffled over to new homes on North American hardware.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s first major expansion “Rise of the Hutt Cartel” has been dated by BioWare during GDC.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic has gained 2 million new accounts since going free-to-play, according to the latest State of the Game letter from executive producer Jeff Hickman. He also said that “thousands of new players jumping in every single day,” and the MMO’s “high capacity servers are teeming with people.” This spring, the game’s Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion will launch, and a new customization feature giving players more options to change their character’s appearance using Cartel Coins will be released for the MMO sometime this summer. You can read the entire blog entry through the link.

EA confirmed last night that John Riccitiello is to step down as CEO at the end of the month, and Ex-Sega and Microsoft boss Peter Moore is the front-runner to replace him.

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EA CEO John Riccitiello has resigned, effective March 30, citing personal responsibility for the publisher’s lowered guidance and missed financial targets.

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Composer Jeremy Soule has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his first classical venture, Symphony No. 1, “The Northerner” (Opus 1).

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