Star Wars: The Old Republic announced
October 21, 2008
Our The Old Republic Wiki Database is now live at http://torwiki.com
Allright, folks. Looks like we were right. Tonight BioWare officially announced Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Set 300 years after the events in Knights of the Old Republic (and featuring some familiar faces), Star Wars: The Old Republic will put players on either side of a massive war between the Republic and the Empire. “It’s not a day-in-the-life of Star Wars,” Ray emphasizes; “It’s about being a hero.” They want the game to fit the scale and proportions of a conflict that spans the entire galaxy. The game will follow BioWare’s emphasis on “choice with consequences” with room for players to be ambiguous or conflicted about their motives. In short, Greg says, it’s what BioWare fans want: a perpetual RPG that delivers the full BioWare experience.
KotOR MMO announcement rumored to be coming soon
October 5, 2008
Our Kotor MMO Wiki Database is now live at http://torwiki.com
ComputerAndVideoGames.com claims that an announcement about BioWare’s secret MMO project should be expected pretty soon.
A column that appeared last Saturday reports that the rag is soon off to San Francisco to “file an exclusive report on the game”, after stating that BioWare is working on “a MMO of Knights of the Old Republic”.
Obviously this comes not from the most reliable source. I guess we have to wait and see what happens.
KoTOR MMO confirmed by EA Boss!
July 18, 2008
In an interview with Portfolio.com, John Riccitiello of Electronic Arts, “may” have spilled the beans on the new Bioware MMO being published by EA as Knights of the Old Republic. The article quotes Riccitiello as saying:
Tags: BioWare, Electronic Arts, KotOR MMO, Star Wars: The Old RepublicWe’ve got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development,” said Riccitiello. The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. “And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about — in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it.”
Does Riccitiello mean the oft rumored Knights of the Old Republic Online? “Yes,” he said.
Ex-Lucasarts Employee claims BioWare MMO is Kotor3
June 8, 2008
According to some recently laid-off Lucasarts Employee(s), BioWare’s top-secret MMO project is KotOR 3:
“We’ve continued to receive e-mails throughout the day from folks who it seems are now formerly in the employ of Lucasarts, telling us this and that about the circumstances behind their departure from the company … Some of the titles they report Lucasarts apparently have in this stacked pipeline, whether as publisher or developer, include:
- KOTOR 3 (They say it’s an MMO: most likely a joint project between Lucasarts and BioWare)”
Tags: BioWare, KotOR MMO, Lucasarts, Rumor, Star Wars: The Old RepublicBioWare conducting market research on MMO
January 26, 2008
- Aren’t affiliated in any way with the fields of advertising, journalism (d’oh!), public relations, video game hardware or software developers, video or computer game retail.
- Can’t have participated in more than 3 paid focus groups in the last 6 months
- Must own at least one video game console or handheld system, but no more than four.
- Must play games on the PC, but have no experience with MMOs
- Must own 2 or more video games
- Must have purchased 1-5 games in the last year
- Must play between 1-9 hours a week
Unfortunately this information still does not provides us with any clues as to what the secret MMO project is all about, so we have to continue speculate if the project is the rumored KotOR based Star Wars MMO or something entirely different. Want to hear my personal opinion? I say its Star Wars and here’s why.
Tags: BioWare, KotOR MMO, Market Research, Star Wars: The Old RepublicEA BioWare-Pandemic Acquisition complete
January 7, 2008
BioWare and Pandemic are now officially part of the Evil Empire - also known as Electronic Arts. The acquisition is proceeding for some time now and we have been assured that the internal processes at BioWare will remain unchanged after the acquisition. However we’ve also witnessed many good studios to be renamed something like “EA <somewhere>” followed disbanding the studio after it’s work on the current title has completed. Let’s hope that BioWare will not share the same fate!
Two execs from each of BioWare and Pandemic have been named EA vice presidents and co-general managers of their respective studios. They are for BioWare Corp Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, and for Pandemic Studios Andrew Goldman and Josh Resnick. Greg Borrud has been named a vice president of EA and made chief production officer for Pandemic.
Here’s the official press release:
Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of VG Holding Corp. and has officially welcomed BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios to the EA Games Label. The addition of these studios vaults EA into a competitive position in the RPG, action and adventure genres. The two studios have been recognized for creating some of the highest-quality games in the industry and will bring ten new franchises to EA, based on six wholly-owned IP.
Tags: Acquisition, BioWare, Electronic ArtsQA for the BioWare MMO: We don’t need monkeys
December 18, 2007
At the recent Independent Game Conference in Austin, BioWare’s Brian Dubose talked about quality assurance, why it’s important — and what it really means. “It’s not monkeys at a keyboard,” warned Dubose.
Discussing the QA experience specific to BioWare, Dubose revealed an interesting peek into the process there, especially in light of the recent acquisition by Electronic Arts and BioWare’s current work on a yet-undetailed new MMO.
Read the rest of the summary at Gamasutra.
Tags: BioWare, Game, KotOR MMO, QA, Star Wars: The Old RepublicBioWare likes WoW but wants to improve it
November 29, 2007
In a recent Interview with GameInformer, BioWare’s President Greg Zeschuk and CEO Ray Muzyka admitted to be avid WoW Players and fans of the game but they also stated that they find some aspects of the game too tedious and time consuming and hope that BioWare can do better.
“it’s almost like having another job.” They said they are thinking about ways to make the genre more accessible and easier to “pick up and play and have fun.”
BioWare is currently working on an unannounced MMO which many believe to be set in the Star Wars KoTOR universe.
Tags: BioWare, Blizzard, KotOR MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, World of WarcraftMore evidence for KotOR MMO
October 31, 2007
Since December 2005, BioWare has been cranking away at a mysterious MMO down in Austin, Texas. Sony Online Entertainment, the folks behind Star Wars Galaxies, are located in Austin, as well, and BioWare confirmed to us almost a year ago an unspecified number of SOE employees migrated to BioWare when they moved into the area. [Source].
Tags: BioWare, KotOR MMO, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old RepublicBioWare’s Upcoming MMO Based in KOTOR Universe
October 30, 2007
A source close to BioWare confirmed to us today that the studio’s upcoming untitled massively-multiplayer online RPG will be centered around the Star Wars universe, specifically that of Knights of the Old Republic, which the developer released in 2003. The game garnered critical acclaim and spawned a less-popular sequel, released by Obsidian two years later. [Source]
Tags: BioWare, KotOR MMO, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic
