Tag Archives: BioWare Austin

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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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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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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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s first full expansions – The Rise of the Hutt Cartel – is releasing in Spring 2013, developer BioWare Austin has revealed. Get the details below.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic lead designer Daniel Erickson has made his departure from BioWare official.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic developer BioWare Austin has set itself the goal of releasing a major update to its MMO every six weeks.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is shifting to a free-to-play model after trying to capitalise on subscriptions from launch. General manager at BioWare Austin Matthew Bromberg has revealed to CVG why it’s making the switch.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is apparently going free-to-play because gamers are scared of commitment – just like your last significant other kept saying.

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A string of tell-tale signs suggest that BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has left the EA-owned company, while EA claim the one-time BioWare Austin general manager is simply following his plan to take some time off after the reorganisation of the company in May of this year.

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Despite lay-offs at BioWare Austin, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still fielding a significant development team.

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Bioware has announced the first Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Summit, which will take place in Austin, TX March 4 – 6 at the DoubleTree Hotel Austin. During the event, guild leaders will be able to discuss “the state of the game” with the developers from BioWare Austin. Guild leaders or a designated officer in case the guild leader is unable to attend, will participate in Q&A sessions with developers, roundtable feedback discussions, and will get a preview of some upcoming game features. Bioware said its goal with the event is to “facilitate an open discussion between guild leaders and the game design team.”

Space is limited and will be “invite-only” with some invitations already sent. Interested guild leaders which have not been invited already, can fill out the application here.

On a scale of one to ten, this ranges at holy fucking shit.

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In what appears to be a revolving door situation at Disney, the company has seen game design director Frederic Markus jump ship to LucasArts.

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Update: BioWare’s just stated this on TOR forums:

“Star Wars: The Old Republic is currently being developed for the personal computer (PC) using the Microsoft® Windows® operating system.

While we recognize that there are other operating systems and platforms available for games today, our development is specific to the personal computer using the Windows operating system at this time.”

Original: One we missed from that GAME list last week: a 360 version of The Old Republic.

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