Tag archive: star wars galaxies

What do you do when the hobby that occupied all of your time is taken away? You fire up a good ole' class-action lawsuit, of course. A group of Star Wars Galaxies players, upset about the closure of the eight year-old MMORPG are claiming that Sony is silencing their many cries out for help on the SWG forum, deleting and locking posts that demand the game become free-to-play or stay open somehow. Due to the impending launch of Star Wars:… Read More

After more than eight years online, Sony has announced its intention to pull the plug on the Star Wars Galaxies massively multiplayer online role-playing game on December 15. Despite having a good run, declining subscriber numbers coupled with the looming launch of competing MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic and Sony's own soon-to-end contract with LucasArts prompted the move. The decision isn't sitting well with fans, 2,465 of whom… Read More

Eight years ago today, Star Wars Galaxies launched. The idea was to take this then-new(-ish) concept of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game apply it to George Lucas' much-loved, highly detailed galaxy far, far away. The game never managed to achieve World of Warcraft numbers — if it had, we'd probably be singing a different tune today — but it was embraced by fans not just for the Star Wars appeal but also… Read More

The Rebirth of Iomega Iomega was once a major power in the PC market. The manufacturer’s Iomega Click drive was, for a while, alone in the class of then high capacity portable storage (yes, once upon a time, 40MB was considered high capacity), but then thumb drives debuted and Iomega came close to dropping out of the market. EMC, the largest pure storage vendor in the business market recently bought the company though, and… Read More

Under this agreement, the parties will begin offering the MMORPG in Japan, starting with the launch of the first expansion, Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed. Developed and operated by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided launched in June 2003 in North America and quickly became the fastest growing online RPG with over 500,000 registered users to date. Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed is the highly… Read More

LucasArts has announced that development on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of its highly anticipated Star Wars massively multiplayer title, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, has been put on hold in order to focus on the launch of the PC version. The console versions of the title have been removed from the game website, and the company has released an official statement to the effect that development on them is now frozen –… Read More