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[Darth Hater] Jumping to Inquisitive Consular-clusions

By Frank on December 2, 2009

Over at Darth Hater, I’ve got a column up about the reaction to the reveal of the last two classes for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Is the mass hysteria and crazy reaction to Bioware’s decision to include two more Force classes justified? What about the fact that the forums have all sorts of threads [...]

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Bioware’s Balance And TOR Careers

Bioware’s Balance And TOR Careers

By Frank on November 7, 2009

Bioware’s been on a bit of a tear lately with Star Wars: The  Old Republic, as the RPG developer revealed the latest class for TOR, the Imperial Agent, a week after their announcement of the Jedi Knight. With this reveal, there now only remain two more classes to show off to complete their picture of [...]

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The Excellently Expected SWTOR Jedi Knight

The Excellently Expected SWTOR Jedi Knight

By Frank on November 2, 2009

By now, folks keeping tabs on Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic know that the latest class reveal is the Jedi Knight, the second in the line of Force users revealed for the upcoming game. While there’s the usual buzz of excitement surrounding any major information chatter for this anticipated MMO, there’s also an undercurrent [...]

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The Dread of TOR Non-Delivery

The Dread of TOR Non-Delivery

By Frank on October 30, 2009

The longer a game is out in the public eye, the more hype and buzz starts to surround it like a palpable bubble of anticipation. With this comes great exposure, and that is both good and bad. This is because while you get a lot of people really excited about a title, you also run [...]

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[Darth Hater] The Massive World Of The Old Republic

By Frank on October 13, 2009

Over at Darth Hater I have a brand new article up about the issue of SW:TOR’s massive world in light of the new Coruscant Developer Dispatch. I talk about how Bioware’s reveal details a lot of good things, but uncovers a possible issue with making the setting a bit too large and segmenting the population [...]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic And The Coruscant Coolness

Star Wars: The Old Republic And The Coruscant Coolness

By Frank on October 13, 2009

Those of you who haven’t yet, ought to check out the new Star Wars: The Old Republic Developer Dispatch on Coruscant. It’s a 6-minute reveal on the world that Bioware is planning to set up for its players in its unique part of Star Wars history, and they talk about everything from concept art to [...]

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[Darth Hater] The Force of EA

By Frank on October 3, 2009

Over at Darth Hater I have a new SW:TOR article up about the dichotomy that is EA, and what role they’ll be playing in the upcoming Bioware MMO release. Will we see the Evil Emperor EA of old, or the more redeeming, non-interfering EA of the past two years? Time will tell, but you can [...]

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The TOR Beta Gold Rush

By Frank on September 30, 2009

Image via Wikipedia So it appears that Bioware is further along with their beta plans for Star Wars: The Old Republic after all – because the site now has a testing portal for the TOR beta where you may submit your interest to be a beta tester. Naturally this is a major announcement and even [...]

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The Turtle-like Pace To The TOR Release Date

By Frank on September 24, 2009

Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) via Flickr Pretty easy to guess, from the really cute picture, who are the players and who are the developers, right? Hint: we’re the ones that can pounce on things and like shinies. With information a bit sparse on the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO lately, the [...]

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[Darth Hater] Sith Sexiness and Faction Balance

By Frank on September 22, 2009

Want to know what I think about some people’s thoughts on the Sith and Empire being overmarketed to the gaming public for Star Wars: The Old Republic? Could we be seeing deja vu with one faction being compensated for anticipated faction imbalances? Find out at my latest writeup at Darth Hater: http://darthhater.com/2009/09/21/sith-sexiness-and-faction-balance/

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