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Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars announced

by John Callaham Feb 8th 2010 @ 10:00AM

LucasArts loves their Lego-based games. After releasing several games based on the six Star Wars movies and two Indiana Jones games, the publisher is teaming up once again with developer Traveller's Tales for the latest game in the series, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. The game is based on the popular CGI animated series that's in its second year on the Cartoon Network.

The game itself will not only feature characters from the TV series but some characters from the Star Wars movies as well. You can also expect to use extra abilities like long distance Jedi attacks, lightsaber slicing and more. The game is due for release for the PC and pretty much every other game platforms this fall.

Filed under: Action

Star Wars Galaxies gets new update; previous subscribers play for free

by John Callaham Jan 27th 2010 @ 2:00PM

While Star Wars: The Old Republic is still at least a year or more away from launch, LucasArts and Sony Online's MMO Star Wars Galaxies is still giving its players new content. This week the game has added a large new content update called Galactic Civil War: Forces Under Siege. The update has three major cities in the game under attack. Imperial forces can attack with the huge AT-AT walkers while the Rebels can defend by manning turrets and putting up barricades.

In addition to all the new content in the update, Sony Online is giving former players of the game a chance to sign onto Star Wars Galaxies for free starting February 1. The free play will last the entire month and those former players re-sign with the game they get an in-game house painting for their trouble. Current subscribers will get their own in-game house painting.

Filed under: MMO

All You Need To Know: The Old Republic

by James Murff Jan 21st 2010 @ 9:00PM

Games that are coming out soon have a lot of unknowns that the average person might not know. Who is this character inspired by? Is all the talk of volumetric fog or cel-shaded graphics really worthwhile? Do the game mechanics really seem solid, or are they lackluster? In All You Need To Know we provide information to help you fully appreciate what these upcoming games have to offer.

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Filed under: Features, MMO, RPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic

BioWare confirms Spring 2011 target launch for Star Wars: The Old Republic

by John Callaham Jan 12th 2010 @ 8:00PM

Last night during Electronic Arts' financial conference call an unnamed MMO was mentioned for a spring 2011 launch. Today BioWare's message board confirmed what we pretty much figured. Their statement says, "While we have not announced a specific date, we can confirm that we are targeting a spring 2011 release for Star Wars: The Old Republic."

Yep, that means the biggest MMO launch since Poptropica . . . er, World of Warcraft is still over a year away. BioWare's statement adds they still plan to reveal a lot of the 's details throughout 2010 and they also remind folks that they are still taking sign ups for the eventual beta test of the game. Will the game become the MMO champion? Time will tell.

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Filed under: MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic due in spring 2011?

by John Callaham Jan 11th 2010 @ 8:00PM

Electronic Arts' financial results may be below expectations, but the game publisher's CEO John Riccitiello is making some online waves with a statement about an unnamed MMO project that could be referencing the possible release date of BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic. During a financial conference call Riccitiello talked about "our major MMO" and added, " . . . the game is making great progress towards a spring 2011 launch."

Unless he was talking about All Points Bulletin (EA is publishing the game but does not own its developer) it's likely that Star Wars: The Old Republic is the game he was referencing. Of course that may mean the game is still well over a year away.

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Filed under: MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars The Old Republic reveals new Sith-themed planet

by John Callaham Jan 8th 2010 @ 7:00PM

If it's Friday that means it's time for a new reveal over at the Star Wars: The Old Republic web site. With all of the upcoming MMO character classes now revealed, it looks like the game's developer BioWare might be introducing us to more original content they have planned for the long awaited game.

Case in point: today's reveal of Dromund Kaas. No, it's not a new punk band but the home planet of the Sith Empire in the game. The new screenshots of the planet show of a very lush and green planet that is mixed with some cold looking structures and a stormy sky. We are guessing that's what you get when your planet is full of dark side energy.

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Filed under: MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic

Review: Tales of Monkey Island Season One

by Steven Wong Jan 8th 2010 @ 6:00PM

Adventure gaming fans were pleasantly surprised when it was announced last summer that TellTale Games was partnering with LucasArts to revive the Monkey Island series. Spread out across five episodic games, the first season of Tales of Monkey Island revives the irrepressible Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate battling against the Ghost Pirate LeChuck. In the newest adventure, Guybrush accidentally unleashes the virulent Pox of LeChuck upon the world and literally has to go to great depths to set things right. However, similar to games past, the new series has plenty of ups and downs.

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Filed under: Features, Adventure, Opinion

More info on The Old Republic's Imperial Agent

by John Callaham Jan 2nd 2010 @ 5:00PM

Not even the New Year's Day holiday can keep BioWare from updating their official Star Wars: The Old Republic web site. This weekend the site offers up some new info on the previously announced Imperial Agent character class. Interestingly, some of the info on the page has been "redacted". That's appropriate for a class that's basically the "James Bond" of the Star Wars universe.

As the page itself says, "The Imperial Agent is an expert at infiltration, seduction and assassination." BioWare wanted to make a class that didn't quite fit into a typical Star Wars archtype and a super-spy class seems to fit the bill nicely without violating the spirit of the Star Wars universe. Now all we need are super-spy bad guys with lines like "No, I expect you to die."

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Filed under: MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic gets into the Sith in new dev movie

by John Callaham Dec 26th 2009 @ 3:00PM

Recently BioWare revealed that their upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will have two kinds of Force-enabled Sith classes, the Sith Inquisitor and the Sith Warrior. In a new developer diary movie posted on the game's official web site members of the game's dev team go into more detail on the ideas behind each Sith class

The trailer, which shows off some new in-game footage, talks about the differences between the fighting styles of each Sith class (even their light sabers have different design influences) and how BioWare is not treating the classes as just the "evil" side in the game.

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Filed under: MMO, Trailers, Star Wars: The Old Republic

New Direct2Drive sales include Spore and LucasArts games

by John Callaham Dec 24th 2009 @ 2:00PM

Direct2Drive's final day in their 24 Days of Christmas promotion has started and from now until 1 pm Eastern time on Christmas Day you can purchase and download EA's alien evolution sim game Spore for just $19.95, a 50 percent decrease from its normal price on the service.

In addition to Spore, Direct2Drive has put a number of LucasArts published games on sale "for a limited time" for 50 percent off their normal prices. The games on the list include Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Loom, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Star Wars Galaxies, Lucidity, The Dig, The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition and others.

Filed under: Downloads, Adventure, FPS, Multiplayer, Spore

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