SWTOR launches in Asia Pacific Territories with regional servers
Good news Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore: Star Wars: The Old Republic has officially launched your country with regional servers. Two versions of the game are available: the Standard Edition for $79.99 AUD/$89.99 NZD/$389.00 HKD/64.90 SGD, and the Digital Deluxe Edition exclusive to Origin for $89.99 AUD/$99.99 NZD/$465.00 HKD/$76.90 SGD. Each version of ... Read More»
Best SWTOR Guide for Leveling, Skills and Builds – Aeon SWTOR Guide
SWTOR game was made thoroughly and wisely. A gamer cannot instantly master all the aspects of the game. It will take time to level up. A lot of strategy guides are available to help players level up and advance their play in this game. SWTOR AEON Guide, is a comprehensive and detailed SWTOR guide. Players ... Read More»
BioWare Discusses the Possiblity of a Mass Effect MMO
It was only a few weeks ago that Casey Hudson promised that Mass Effect 3 would not be the last we hear of the Mass Effect series, but is an MMO the next step for the franchise? Speaking to the Penny Arcade Report, the BioWare founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka hinted that the company ... Read More»
Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [February 19th - 25th]
The UK PC Charts have been released and as we can see, Football Manager 2012 is still at the top. Star Wars: The Old Republic has managed to regain its second place and is followed by two ‘The Sims 3 ‘titles and Skyrim. Syndicate that was released this week can be spotted at the sixth ... Read More»
The Hard Way: A Lesson for Hepler
The Hard Way: A Lesson for Hepler by Elizabeth DeLoria The internet can be a scary place. Jennifer Hepler, a senior writer on some of BioWare’s biggest games, including the Dragon Age series and Star Wars: The Old Republic, learned that on Sunday when some internet users discovered her more controversial opinions. “If you're a ... Read More»
Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [February 12th - 18th]
The UK PC Charts have just been revealed and as we can see, Football Manager 2012 is once again at the top place, followed by The Sims 3: Pets and The Sims 3. Star Wars: The Old Republic is losing places each and every week, whereas Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has lost eight places. This week’s ... Read More»
Guild Wars 2 isn’t like any MMO you’ve played before
Brought to you by Destructoid: This weekend, ArenaNet gave select members of the press a chance to see the current beta of Guild Wars 2. We had the opportunity to create Human, Charr, and Norn characters of any class, and play through each race's level 1-30 zones. Additionally, we had access to the Ascalon Catacombs, ... Read More»
BioWare writer’s vagina versus the Internet
Brought to you by Destructoid: Jennifer Hepler is hated by people on the Internet, as Destructoid reader Ben recently informed us. That's not unusual in itself, as there are few public figures who aren't hated by a significant cross-section of the online population. However, when you consider what Hepler did -- or didn't do -- ... Read More»
Ex-SWTOR developers reveal The Banner Saga
What do you do after making one of the biggest games of the year? You make the game you want to play: The Banner Saga. Arnie Jorgensen, Alex Thomas and John Watson left BioWare after five years as lead developers on Star Wars: The Old Republic, to work on a passion project combining their love ... Read More»
Drew Karpyshyn Leaves BioWare
As the Mass Effect trilogy comes to an end, so does writer Drew Karpyshyn’s twelve years at BioWare. The writer behind the first two Mass Effect games, Knights of the Old Republic and The Jade Empire has officially retired from BioWare and video games to focus more on penning novels. As well as writing for ... Read More»
Bioware writer Drew Karpyshyn to retire from games industry
Bioware writer Drew Karpyshyn has announced he is leaving the firm and the game industry as a whole. According to a post on his personal blog and picked up by RipTen, Karpyshyn will leave the firm to work on his fantasy novel Children of Fire and the next Star Wars: The Old Republic novel. “During ... Read More»
NCSoft Conference Call Confirms Console Version of Guild Wars 2
How many times have we heard an MMO developer tell us that there will soon be a console version of the game? Champions Online, All Points Bulletin, and even my own beloved Star Trek Online all failed to make the jump. DC Universe made it, but with little fanfare or praise for doing so. Yet it is strange ... Read More»
BioWare Wins 5 of 4chan’s /V/GAs – Not Really a Good Thing
Not too long ago we reported on 4chan’s democratic awnser to the Spike VGA’s, the Vidya Gaem Awards (otherwise known as the /V/GAs.) Now that they’ve come and gone in a blaze of fire, who won what? The awards, hosted by dramatic reading star ‘Duke,’ celebrated the best of the industry and doused the worst ... Read More»
Star Wars: The Old Republic Finally Gets Australian Release Date
We waited, and we waited, and then we waited some more - and it finally paid off. Australia and New Zealand will finally be getting its own Star Wars: The Old Republic Servers as well as a localised release come March 1st. EA Australia today confirmed that the game will officially be released in Australia, ... Read More»
No gamepad support for Mass Effect 3 PC, says BioWare
BioWare has said it won’t support gamepads for the PC version of Mass Effect 3. Community manager Chris Priestly confirmed the news on the company’s forums, meaning controllers such as a plugged-in Xbox 360 PC controller will not do the trick. It’s all keyboard and mouse, gringo. “The PC version does not support controllers,” said ... Read More»

