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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.

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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’s latest developer blog has been posted, and it provides plenty of details on Update 1.5 – specifically missions pertaining to Section X and HK-51. There’s also plenty of spoilers for character’s in-game storylines, but thankfully players can avoid those by not logging in; thus avoiding anything spolieriffic. You can read up on the entire thing through the link. Remember: SWTOR goes free-to-play tomorrow, November 15. Thanks, Massively.

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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For those who find reading words a bit of a headache, BioWare has releaded a handy video guide to the upcoming free-to-play option for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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SWTOR update 1.5 has landed on the public test server.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic walked away with four awards this week during GDC Online.

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SWTOR update 1.4 files have been dug around in by some industrious types, and it looks as though some more content is on the way according to what was unearthed.

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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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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s public testing server has been switched over by BioWare in preparation for the new Mega Servers the developer plans to implement into the game.

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SWTOR Game Update 1.4, Terror from Beyond, has a developer video available for viewing below the break. In the update, players will be “called upon to face a mysterious new threat that has emerged from one of the most obscure places in the galaxy: the Gree planet of Asation.” It seems as those the Gree have been “safeguarding ancient technologies” on the planet for a very, very long time, and somehow, one of these called the “Hypergate” has been activated. It has caused nasty creatures to come through, and players will be dispatched to Asation to close the Hypergate and stop this terrible menace before it gets out of control.

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EA labels president Frank Gibeau believes subscription-based games are here to stay in some capacity, but it depends on the the type of game being developed.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play incentives have been expanded upon by BioWare due to players vote. Now, rewards for current and returning subscribers will include a Party Jawa, which Massively describes as a “fun-loving native of Tatooine who has nothing better to do than bring the festivities to you.” The reward chart will also include 250 cartel coins for those who purchased the digital deluxe edition of SWTOR. The MMO goes F2P in November.