Drew Karpyshyn, lead writer for BioWare (makers of Star Wars: The Old Republic and other MMOs), has resigned after working for the company for 12 years.  He says, in a blog post, that he’s retiring from the gaming industry to focus on writing novels and possibly screen...

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be hosting its third closed beta weekend soon and developers have announced that invitations are being sent to lucky players via email. Invites are being sent to North American applicants, but the beta weekend time table hasn’t been...

Mass Effect 3 Exec Producer Casey Hudson says that cooperative online missions will be a feature of the next edition of the ME series.  This moves the popular XBox game into MMO territory when the next game comes out in March of 2012. Full details are said to be forthcoming in the...

Star Wars: The Old Republic has announced an official launch date.  Bioware says that the game will be on store shelves in North America on December 20th and in Europe on the 22nd.  You can guarantee that more than one gamer will be reserving copies and not waiting until Christmas to...

With recent news abuzz that Bioware and Electronic Arts may forego an open beta testing phase for its highly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR), critics and gamers alike are concerned that a preview will not be available before the game’s launch. It was recently...

Following Sony Online Entertainment’s announcement that it would be pulling the plug on Star Wars Galaxies, fans have begun to rally support to keep the game from shutting down at the end of the year.  SOE’s decision was influenced by a number of factors, including the...

The SWTOR devs over at BioWare released a new teaser today on the much anticipated Trooper class.  What sets this class apart from the other classes is its non-traditional (in terms of typical MMORPG’s) reliance on technology, mainly guns and other heavy weaponry.  The Trooper...

Every MMO gamer that’s waiting for SWTOR release is salivating at the opportunity to kill some rebel scum or imperial knaves. But do we really know what the PVP system is going to look like in SWTOR? During SWTOR’s Immersion Day in early May, Bioware’s Lead Designer Emmanuel...

The highly anticipated MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, developed by BioWare and Lucas Arts is getting big boosts by BioWare’s parent  company, Electronic Arts, in the best form possible: cold, hard cash. So far, EA is showing its dedication to a breakthrough MMO, committing at least...

Bioware has a history of decent brilliant single-player games – from KOTOR to Mass Effect 2. Their latest project, Star Wars – The Old Republic, is their most ambitious one, which aims to recreate the story experience of a single player game in an MMORPG. Writer and designer...

Shacknews is breaking the news that Bioware is working on multiplayer capability of a game in the Mass Effect franchise and is speculating on whether this will mean multiplayer in Mass Effect 3, or if this is the first step towards a Mass Effect MMO. I blogged yesterday already about...