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WorstUsernameEver
May 11, 2011

Star Wars: The Old Republic Interview

There’s certainly no shortage of coverage for the upcoming Bioware’s MMO lately and GameRevolution is the latest to join the fray with an interview [archive.org backup] with associate lead designer Emmanuel Lusinchi. Here’s a sampling: GR: Do you have plans…

Brother None
May 9, 2011

Recycled Characters in BioWare Games

This is a regular criticism for BioWare titles, but it only seems to have occurred to this GamesRadar US recently, as Dragon Age II’s release spurred the creation of an article on similar characters across both Dragon Ages, both Mass Effects, Jade Empire…

Brother None
April 21, 2011

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic For Less Than $7.50

Today in Direct2Drive’s “30 Days of Deals” promotion, we have BioWare’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. North American buyers can get it for $7.46, though EU users have to pay a bit more at £5.96 (â‚¬6.76).

BuckGB
April 18, 2011

A Winning Formula: The Common Thread of BioWare Games

Bright Hub briefly editorializes about the successful formula that BioWare tends to use in many of their titles, which they describe as including player choice, multiple endings, and a compelling story. A player whose character is trying to save the…

BuckGB
March 21, 2011

With Friends Like These…

In a piece entitled “With Friends Like These…”, Games On Net profiles some of the most memorable companions we’ve adventured with across Black Isle and BioWare’s catalogue of RPGs, including Fallout’s Dogmeat, Baldur’s Gate’s Minsc and Boo, Planescape: Torment’s Morte,…

Brother None
March 17, 2011

The Old Republic Can Challenge World of Warcraft

EA Games boss Frank Gibeau explains to Industry Gamers why he feels the Old Republic is capable of challenging WoW’s MMO space dominance, the main reasons apparently being that WoW is old hat, Star Wars has universal appeal, and there…

Brother None
February 15, 2011

The Very Important List of PC Games, Parts 1 and 2

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s crew has been putting together a list of the “greatest, most important PC games of all time”, rating their importanceness and doing short writeups. Included in part one are System Shock (importanceness: Quite High), Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines…

Brother None
February 15, 2011

The Art of Video Games

The Smitshonian American Art Museum is setting up an exhibit for video game art/history, wisely constructed over five eras so it won’t be crowded out by just recent games. Consumers even get to vote. It puts RPGs under the “adventure genre”…

BuckGB
February 11, 2011

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Romance Retrospective

In their latest “Digital Love” editorial, EmpireStateGamer takes a closer look at the romance options available to the protagonist in BioWare’s original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. This is familiar territory for most of us, but there might…

Brother None
January 30, 2011

25 Best PC Games of the 2000s

GameSpy lists its top 25 PC games of the most recent decade, or in other words, the games we were playing from 2000-2009. Included are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at #16, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind at #14,…