Tag archive: BioWare

Announced by Electronic Arts during an investor call earlier today, the gaming publisher has sold two million copies of Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic and 1.7 million of those gaming consumers have signed up for a subscription to the online role-playing game. However, this number includes all players that are currently taking advantage of the first 30 days of free play-time that comes with the $60 game and does not necessarily mean… Read More

Greetings from a galaxy far, far away! It's been about a month since we last got together to talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Or, more accurately, it's been a month since I raved about BioWare's work on this highly story-driven massively multiplayer online game. The thing about MMOs is that they're so community-driven and content update-driven that it's not fair to either the player or the developer to assess… Read More

In a quiet room, far removed from the hustle and glitz of Las Vegas, EA and BioWare were at CES to show off Mass Effect 3’s new Kinect voice integration. It was a technology that was first unveiled at E3, but seeing it in a quiet room with a chance to experience it first hand was a different experience—and a good one. Utilizing the Kinect for dedicated gamers has always been a challenge. The integration typically comes off feeling like little… Read More

Massively multiplayer gaming has never held much appeal for me beyond the restrictive confines of your typical online shooter's versus map, but that attitude changed when Star Wars: The Old Republic was announced. The sci-fi universe created by George Lucas has always been close to my fanboy heart, and here was a game that promised me the opportunity to tromp around a galaxy far, far away as anything from a Force-using mystic to a… Read More

According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic already has between 1 to 1.5 million early players taking advantage of early access from preordering the game. Creutz has been watching the amount of servers being rolled out for the game as well as the server population. The analyst counted 140 servers over the weekend, an increase from 106 servers there were available the previous Wednesday.… Read More

BioWare has been putting an increasing focus on capturing the hearts and minds of community-minded gamers in recent years. The developer known for its deep, largely solitary RPG has attempted to galvanize its sizable fanbase with socially oriented games/cross-promotions like the Facebook title Dragon Age Legends. Now the studio's parent company, publisher Electronic Arts, is stepping up to increase BioWare's social presence with the… Read More

 Mass Effect 3 will include an online multiplayer mode. Even now that the feature is confirmed, it still feels weird to actually say it. After all, this is a hardcore BioWare RPG we're talking about here, and the third one in a trilogy no less. But it's true: when the trilogy-closing Mass Effect 3 arrives on March 6 of next year, players will be able to connect with fellow fans of the series online. I got to have an actual hands-on… Read More

Behold, Dragon Age fans! Are you beholding? Good. It’s a big day for fans of BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise. For owners of Dragon Age II, a new DLC titled “Mark of the Assassin,” is now available to download on Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The new DLC will introduce the character, party member and slightly murderous elf assassin Tallis, voiced by actress and geek-goddess Felicia Day. Tallis joins Hawke in order to infiltrate an Orlesian estate and… Read More

BioWare has saved one last surprise for its third chapter in the Mass Effect franchise. The game developer has added a brand new, four-player cooperative mode to Mass Effect 3. The new mode will further expand the game’s story and offer a new perspective on the Reaper invasion. “Each of the games have been building up to this overall galactic invasion,” explained Aaryn Flynn, studio general manager for BioWare in Edmonton. “We wanted to do… Read More

There has been a lot of back and forth on the possibility of a multiplayer component for the upcoming action/RPG from BioWare. Part of the confusion was the uncertainty of how a Mass Effect multiplayer would work. Would it be a competitive shooter? Perhaps a co-op way to tackle the game? Or maybe it would just take a what-the-hell approach and become a competitive racing game. Well, those answers will have to until October 19, but the… Read More

Sorry, Old Republic fans, but BioWare giveth, and BioWare taketh away. The hype for the upcoming MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic has been fairly intense. After all, it takes two groups, both of which are populated by intelligent and eager fans that are typically very web savvy, and mixes them together. Fans of the developer BioWare and fans of Star Wars are both fairly well informed in general, so the cross section that is awaiting the… Read More

Earlier today, LucasArts and Bioware announced the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic on December 20, 2011 for North America and December 22, 2011 for all launch territories in Europe. BioWare co-founders Dr. Greg Zeschuk and Dr. Ray Muzyka released this information at the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in London, England during a keynote address to many Star Wars fanatics. The game has been undergoing extensive beta testing from a small group of fans.… Read More

Electronic Arts is planning on putting a cap on the amount of players that will be able to access Star Wars: The Old Republic at the launch of the MMORPG this fall. While no specific number has been announced, there is an exact target of player volume that can be reached with a combination of physical and digital sales of the game. Once that cap is reached, Electronic Arts will halt sales of digital copies and wait until server performance can… Read More

There's a new job posting up on the Lucasfilm careers website for a gameplay engineer position at LucasArts which mentions that “experience with open-world RPGs is a plus” and requires applicants to have at least one console title under their belts. It's far from confirmation of such a game being in development, and it could just the company filling in a role for Star Wars: The Old Republic, though the core of that… Read More