Video Games - E3 2009 - PAX

Looks like BioWare has confirmed that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released in the spring of 2011! Both G4 and Massively are reporting that spring will be the season. Lets just hope they can avoid delays. I remember waiting for over a year for Wrath of the Lich King the World of Warcraft expansion and the anticipation was palpable. But I’m...

Finally! PC Games has dropped the veil on the final two classes. Ask The Gamers: Now that all the player classes have been revealed, do you know which one you want to play? Comment at the bottom! Well that’s certainly a novel way to make sure you don’t have a huge overpopulation of Jedi Knights and Sith Warriors. The Jedi Consular and Sith Inquisitor...

Although the inclusion of the Jedi Knight class has been assumed almost since the announcement of the game itself, and especially since the Sith class was confirmed, it is still nice to know for sure that Jedi Knights will be a playable class. When it comes to combat tactics, BioWare isn’t very descriptive other than saying, “…the...

GamesRadar describes gameplay in SWTOR: Story’s all well and good, but how does it play? The answer is very well, right from the off. Your attacks are mapped to the number keys so, if you’re playing as a Sith character (as we did), 1 is your standard lightsaber strike, 2 is a harder melee strike, 3 can be used to jump in from above or from...

When it comes to game development, says Dalton, “For any game these days, we have very large teams. For MMOs, in particular, we have a lot of stuff going on. Everything everybody does is challenging. Producing the art, source code… [More from Gamasutra] Christian Nutt over at Gamasutra delved into how development teams come together on such...

If you’ve been following the news about Star Wars: The Old Republic you know that one of the main game features that will set TOR apart from other MMOs is the introduction of an in-depth storyline. The deep storyline progression is one of the main ways your character progresses. Get more information about the story from Jake Neri (courtesy of...