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SWTOR’s character creation screen gets a makeover for Legacy of the Sith
All those Star Wars: The Old Republic players who will be flocking to make new characters with the flexible combat styles system next month...
Star Wars The Old Republic marks 10 years with 4K re-releases of its original trailers
Cast your mind back 10 years ago when Star Wars: The Old Republic was kicking out some impressive cinematic trailers that laid the groundwork...
Star Wars The Old Republic will release its next Operation in January so players can get geared up
The variety of things coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic with the Legacy of the Sith expansion are pretty game-changing, all things considered....
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Charles Boyd on BioWare, newbie acquisition, economy, and beyond
So it’s been two years since I wrote a piece on Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’m sorry. You’ll have to tell me what...
Perfect Ten: 10 enemies we need to fight more in MMORPGs
When I wrote up the contents of every MMORPG bestiary, I stuck mostly with concepts rather than specifics, aside from dragons and slimes. There...
Star Wars: The Old Republic lays out the philosophy for player gear with Legacy of the Sith
If you hate randomness in gearing, you're going to like the philosophy that Star Wars: The Old Republic is bringing to the table with the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic runs Sage, Vanguard, and Scoundrel combat styles through their paces
Have you figured out what class and combat style combination you'll be rolling when Star Wars: The Old Republic launches Legacy of the Sith...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
Star Wars The Old Republic unveils legendary items arriving with Legacy of the Sith
Much of the noise made about the Legacy of the Sith expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been focused around combat styles,...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs have endings – or at least end points?
I suspect most MMO players are going to read that question and immediately balk at it. We think of MMOs as being defined in...
Star Wars The Old Republic brings combat styles for Sith Warrior and Bounty Hunter advanced classes to PTS
It appears that Star Wars: The Old Republic is ramping up its combat style testing efforts. Now that the Sith Assassin and Sorcerer classes...
Massively Overthinking: Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?
Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...
One Shots: Boom, said the world
You'd think that a world that's already been nuked into a radioactive wasteland wouldn't need any additional bombs lobbed at its surface, but several...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why do we know so little about Fate of Gundabad?
Over the past few months, my general sense of rising hope for Lord of the Rings Online has been tempered by a nagging disquiet...
Combat style testing for Star Wars The Old Republic now moves to the Assassin and Sorcerer classes
Public testing for the new combat styles of Star Wars: The Old Republic's classes rolls on. As of yesterday, the game's PTR has started...
Star Wars: The Old Republic makes a mystery merchant always available
According to Wookieepedia, the man known as Kai Zykken is "a male Human who was captain of the Corellian Run Scoundrels, a pirate gang...
Star Wars The Old Republic talks system design as a new KOTOR remake is unveiled
The gameplay loops that keep players chasing goals in Star Wars: The Old Republic is all powered by system design, which is the topic...
The Soapbox: Single-player open worlds will never equal those of MMORPGs
These days it seems like sprawling open worlds are becoming an ever more popular choice for single-player games, from the newer Assassin's Creed titles...
Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs
About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called "but I already have that game" about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of...
Perfect Ten: MMO character customization options that don’t get enough love
There are two types of people in the world: those who can't get through the character creation menu fast enough to start playing "LordBladezz"...
