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Star Wars Species Update

May 03, 2001 8:31am CST tags: MMO, StarWars
More color sketches on the Star Wars Galaxies website, in the Wookiee and Zabrak section. Star Wars Galaxies is an upcoming MMORPG by Verant.

SW: Galactic Battleground Info

May 01, 2001 1:32pm CST tags: LucasArts, StarWars
LucasArts has updated it's E3 page, unveiling their latest Star Wars game. Star Wars: Galactic Battleground is an RTS based on the Age of Empires engine. The E3 site has a feature list, a couple of screenshots as well as some concept art. Thanks Well Rounded Entertainment.

Star Wars FAQ Update

Apr 27, 2001 3:38pm CST tags: MMO, StarWars
The FAQ section at the Star Wars Galaxies website has been update with a new Q&A addition as well as 3 Q&As from the developer board. Star Wars Galaxies is an upcoming MMORPG by Verant.

Star Wars Species

Apr 26, 2001 9:16am CST tags: StarWars
The Star Wars Galaxies website has been updated with more colored character art. This time for the Rodian and Mon Calamari species.

Star Wars Species Update

Apr 19, 2001 9:27am CST tags: MMO, StarWars
More concept art for the Star Wars MMORPG Galaxies has been posted in the Bothan species section. They have added some colored concept art if you dig on that.

LucasArts E3 Teaser

Apr 09, 2001 10:17am CST tags: LucasArts, StarWars, E3
LucasArts has posted a teaser image from a new game that they plan on showing off for the first time at the upcoming E3 show this year. Thanks Mixnmojo. Surprise it looks like something from StarWars!

Final Star Wars Species

Apr 02, 2001 3:04pm CST tags: StarWars
The eight (and final) Star Wars Galaxies player species has been unveiled. The last species are the Zabraks and as usual there is concept art included with the bio. Thanks Blues News.

Big Star Wars Q&A

Apr 01, 2001 10:39am CST tags: MMO, StarWars
Over at the Star Wars Galaxies forums is a lenghty Q&A with Creative Director Raph Koster answering a ton of questions related to this MMORPG from Verant.

StarWars Galaxies Update

Mar 23, 2001 5:00pm CST tags: StarWars
More updates on StarWars Galaxies are gracing the pages of the official website. Another new race is revealed along with a couple of concept images of what it will look like.

New Star Wars Species

Mar 16, 2001 6:39pm CST tags: StarWars
The Star Wars Galaxies website has been updated with a look at another species from this massive multiplayer game. This time there's a profile of the Trandoshans.

Star Wars Species

Mar 08, 2001 4:25pm CST tags: StarWars
The Star Wars Galaxies website has been updated with another species profile. This time there's info on the Mon Calamari. Thanks Fez1.

Star Wars FAQ Update

Feb 24, 2001 9:05am CST tags: StarWars
The official Star Wars Galaxies FAQ has been updated, with two more Q&A's added.

StarWars Games

Feb 21, 2001 8:31am CST tags: MMO, StarWars
Because StarWars is so damn cool, here's a couple of bits on upcoming StarWars games. Firstly here is a huge update on StarWars Galaxies (the MMORPG Verant game, Thanks VE) This is in response to the story yesterday, I Wanna Be A Stormtrooper!

We can do all of these things without having player stormtroopers. In fact, if you're a stormtrooper, most of these things are off-limits. A stormtrooper is shock troops and guards, and that is all they do. Heck, when one wanders away from his post guarding the Falcon in the first movie, he gets a call in under ten seconds demanding to know where he went! We don't see part-time stormtroopers anywhere in the fiction that I know of [...] letting you participate in politics, have your own player association, engage in crafting, visit the cantina, mine for rare crystals, and hunt wamp-rats--are much easier to do for you if you're reservists, covert ops, special agents, and so on. We even assumed people would get ahold of stormtrooper armor and pretend to be stormtroopers (we joked about having real ones, if they figured it out, shoot you on sight!). But BE stormtroopers? Nah--and THAT'S what I meant by saying "I just don't see any way to make stormtroopers work."

StarWars Galaxies scares me. The game is going to be so stupidly popular its just... stupid. StarWars + Massive Multiplayer = $$$. Also, the guys at TheForce.net have been digging a litle deeper on the Jedi Knight II story. They havent come up with anything concrete yet but they have ruled out Nihilistic from the developer list. Thanks o0JediBeavis0o. Oh, did I mention the official page was updated recently with another race? Well it was.

I Wanna Be a Stormtrooper

Feb 20, 2001 8:54am CST tags: StarWars
There is a new petition online, for people to sign who would like to play a stormtrooper in Verant's upcoming massively multiplayer online Star Wars game.

Star Wars Species

Feb 13, 2001 8:15am CST tags: StarWars, Sony
The Sony/Verant Star Wars Galaxies website has unleashed the first two characters of this massively multiplayer online game, the wookie and the human.

StarWars Galaxies Info

Jan 27, 2001 8:18am CST tags: MMO, StarWars
The Verant StarWars Galaxies website is getting more updates in their FAQ about the progress and information on their MMORPG StarWars universe game that will ruin many lives and families for sure. Being a Jedi is for pussies. Thanks VE

Star Wars Update

Jan 22, 2001 3:40pm CST tags: StarWars
The Star Wars Galaxies site has been updated with a report by content supervisor Haden Blackman, who recently got to see a gameplay demo from Verant's upcoming massively multiplayer game. Thanks Blues News

The team led me through the prototype, showing me several models and locations in the process. The demo was beautiful, but one thing really stood out: as Andy wandered a stretch of Tatooine desert, an AT-AT appeared on the horizon. The AT-AT lumbered toward Andy's character and as it approached, I saw that it had been built to scale - it was massive. The AT-AT came to a stop directly over Andy, whose character looked up to see the underside of the mammoth vehicle, then looked at the AT-AT's huge feet. At that moment, I felt like I was truly exploring the Star Wars universe, face-to-foot with one of the Empire's most dangerous weapons. And then, a few seconds later, the AT-AT asked Andy's character "What's up?" and I was told that the vehicle was being controlled by another team member located elsewhere in the building. Although the AT-AT's sudden ability to talk temporarily ended my sense of immersion, that feeling would overtake me again and again throughout the presentation. When the lights came up again, I realized that I hadn't touched my soda, and all I wanted to do was see everything again. I felt like I had just watched The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, all over again.

Some screenshots Verant? Aw?

Star Wars Online Updates

Jan 18, 2001 11:28am CST tags: StarWars
Apache spotted this post on the Star Wars Online forum where Verant's Raph Koster talks about upgrades of content and possibly system requirements during the life of the game. They do plan to continue to improve the game after release, besides just the normal bug fixes.

MMORPG StarWars Update

Jan 07, 2001 10:14am CST tags: MMO, StarWars
Apache @ VE spotted this forum thread discussing more information and updates for the MMORPG StarWars game that Verant is working on (But not Brian Hook).