Bioware and LucasArts have announced on both their twitter feed and website a change to the release date of their highly anticipated MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game will now launch worldwide on the 20th December 2011, with the European release date having been pushed forward 2 days.
The co-founders of BioWare, Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk were in London this weekend for a presentation at the Eurogamer Expo. Rich Burley from Newb Review, Chris Hartnup of Gaming Lives and I caught up with the doctors in a boutique Soho hotel to talk about the studio and where they are planning to take the company.
Key points from yesterday: PlayStation Access: They’re coming to Motion Ramp Park in Bristol from 29th September to 1st October. All you fans out there could win the chance to play loads of games before release: Uncharted 3 – Multiplayer / 3D Goldeneye 007 – Singleplayer Batman: Arkham City – Singleplayer Dark Souls – Singleplayer Battlefield 3 Resistance 3 – [...]
The Mass Effect 3 demo is finished and ready for E3 2011, according to Casey Hudson (Exec Producer of Mass Effect Series). BAFTA Games awards head to the US in order to grow it’s presence/membership across the other side of the pond. There’s more PlayStation Network maintenance today, so it will be offline until 7am tomorrow morning (2nd June 2011) [...]
There’s some great insight into the writing process behind Commander Shepard over on Patrick Weekes’ LiveJournal (writer at BioWare). Weekes, Dragon Age’s David Gaider and the rest of the BioWare team constantly need to balance the immersion of male/fem Shepard and Hawke with the risk of projecting real-world biases on their characters. Weekes put the question out to community yesterday: [...]
In this brand new DLC for Mass Effect 2 Commander Shephard has to save a deep cover agent (Dr Amanda Kenson) who has got herself into a spot of bother in Batarian Space. She’s uncovered something about an imminent Reaper invasion apparently. As everything is to be kept top secret, Shephard will have to undertake this mission alone. This will [...]
Bioware have released this latest clip from one of the flashpoints from Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). In a nutshell, flashpoints are story driven missions where your choices make a difference to the enemies you fight and the outcome of the flashpoint. You can also repeat flashpoints as often as you wish and they contain some of the best [...]
Bioware’s blockbuster space RPG Mass Effect 2 finally arrives on the PlayStation 3 in the UK on the 21st Jan 2011. Powered by the new Mass Effect 3 engine and featuring 6 hours of bonus missions (that DLC that Xbox 360 owners had to pay for separately!) it is looking like a very tasty proposition. Exactly what improvements using the [...]
Watch as Mike Laidlaw (lead designer) shows how Dragon Age 2 can be played as an action RPG or more tactically with some timely use of the pause button.
Gender in the media. It’s always a fun topic on the internet. Here’s a 2-minute video so you know where I’m coming from. Now let’s talk about games. Over the weekend, a load of game trailers premiered at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Among them were the first trailers for two brilliant role-playing franchises, Mass Effect and The Elder [...]
If you missed last night’s Spike TVs Video Games Awards, don’t fret as we have a load of the exclusive game reveals/trailers right here for your viewing pleasure. It also means you don’t have to watch a boring awards show to catch the first Mass Effect 3 trailer.
Hot on the heels of the first image from Bioware’s next major project comes a teaser trailer showing some actual footage.
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