death-troopers posts

Time for some early Halloween-themed MMO action as Sony Online's MMO game Star Wars Galaxies has just launched their latest content update. As we previously reported this update is a bit different than normal as it launches a horror-themed quest called Death Troopers.

While players can check out the update and then get themselves ravaged by the Star Wars' version of zombies, you might also want to check out the Star Wars Death Troopers novel by Joe Schreiber which just happens to be in book stores today as well. It served as the inspiration for the Star Wars Galaxies update and is the first time that one of the Star Wars books ties into events in the game.

[Via Massively]

You apparently can't keep those zombies down, even in the Star Wars universe. The long running MMO Star Wars Galaxies is about to experience some undead action via Sony Online and LucasArts in an upcoming content update due out, naturally, in October. The update will be called (wait for it) Death Troopers.

In addition to having flesh-eating beasties in the game universe, this also marks the first time Star Wars Galaxies will have a tie-in to an official Star Wars novel. Del Rey was already planning to release the horror-themed novel Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber on October 13 but Sony Online and LucasArts got wind of the book and decided to do a new quest that related to the events in the novel. Now all we need is zombie Jar Jar somewhere and we are in.