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Bioware has released a new SWTOR video, featuring a “first look” at The Rise of the Hutt Cartel update slated for spring. Watch it below, and have a look at the screenshots while you are at it.

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A teaser page for Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Return of the Gree update has been launched. Details are provided on the new recurring event, Relics of the Gree, which will thrust players into the planet Ilum for a spot of investigation.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion will finally deliver long-awaited same-sex romance options, a BioWare mainstay sadly missing from the MMORPG at launch. But as PCGamesN points out in a biting editorial, these new romance options will only be available on a single planet, Makeb, and you’ll have to be high level and fork out some cash in order to access it. Ouch. The expansion is due in northern spring.

SWTOR executive producer Jeff Hickman has revealed his latest State of the Game report that same-gender romance between players and NPCs on Makeb will be added to the MMO with the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion, slated for spring. More SGR options will be added “in the future.” The expansion also adds several new systems, five new levels, a large new planet, new storylines, new skills and new abilities. Hickman also noted that the game has seen an increase in player numbers since going free-to-play, and changes to “a special PvP area,” are slated for Update 1.7, and more endgame content and the ability to copy characters to the test server are all on the way. More information can be found through the link.

BioWare has released update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate for Star Wars: The Old Republic onto the servers today.
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Bioware has announced SWTOR Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate will launch next week. The update introduces the new Ancient Hypergate Warzone where players will team up to gain control over powerful energy pylons. These pylons can be used to “unleash the power of the ancient Gree hypergate” against one’s enemies. The update will also include six Heroic Space Missions for each faction. Servers will be brought down in the game to apply the update on December 11.

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be offline for two hours on Thursday, December 6, between 2:00AM CST and 4:00AM CST. That’s prime gaming time for Australians, unfortunately. The maintenance will be followed by a new patch, and BioWare has promised to make notes available post-release.

BioWare has made a few changes to Star Wars: The Old Republic’s free-to-play option to the benefit of Preferred Status players.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic has just gone free to play, but that doesn’t mean the content’s going to stop, with a few hints dropped as to where the story’s going next.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic fans keen on new content can check out upcoming Update 1.6, Ancient Hypergate, on the MMORPG’s test servers. The beta includes a new warzone in which players battle to control a portal which promises to deliver reinforcements but can damage the controlling team, as well as a six new heroic missions for each faction, which reward elite gear and Black Hole Commendations. More details on the game’s website.

Thanks, Massively.

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s free-to play option has gone live, and it allows players to complete the storylines of all eight classes to level 50 for free.

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SWTOR is going free-or-play next week, Bioware has announced.

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SWTOR has a new developer dispatch video available which discusses some of the new content coming with Game Update 1.5: HK-51 Activated. In the video, members of the development team outline some of the missions present in the new Section X area on Belsavis, how players will search the galaxies for clues in order to unlock the HK-51 Companion as their very own Assassin Droid, and more. There’s also a look the final pieces of the Dread Guard gear set and a rare new mount earned by taking on Operation: Explosive Conflict in Nightmare Mode.

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The free-to-play version of Star Wars: The Old Republic won’t be quite as restricted as previously advertised.

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BioWare has enabled the Cartel Market, a microtransaction shop in support of the MMORPG’s upcoming free-to-play option, on the public test server. According to the test server’s patch notes, all participating players have been set to free-to-play and will be periodically awarded a small amount of coins to aid in testing. If you’re keen to check it out, be sure to look through the known issues before firing off complaints. Satr Wars: The Old Republic is expected to implement its free-to-play membership offering by the end of the year.

SWTOR update 1.5 has landed on the public test server.

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

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SWTOR Update 1.4: Terror From Beyond is now live.

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SWTOR update 1.4 will contain some new elements for players when it launches such as moods, the ability to teleport back from whence you came after using Group Finder to complete a mission, and more.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic has migrated all players onto high-population servers in a bid to end the MMORPG’s tumbleweed feeling.

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