Well folks, it’s been one hell of a ride - but for me, part of this journey is coming to an end. 30 Hours Would be Ideal So I’ve discovered that between working a day job, attempting to jump-start my freelance writing career, being a new father and writing two columns for TORWars a week, something’s [...]
There has been a fair bit of controversy surrounding both BioWare and Star Wars: The Old Republic of late. Several rounds of layoffs, the F2P announcement, competition from upcoming MMOs like Guild Wars 2 and now news that EA may be shopping for someone to buy them out as their stock starts to drop – [...]
Welcome back, TORWarriors, to another weekly dose of Star Wars: The Old Republic meta discussion. Today, I’m touching on an oft-debated topic in the MMO genre and SWTOR specifically: theme park vs. sandbox. You Must be This Tall I discussed this issue in the first column I ever wrote for TORWars; there’s no [...]
To paraphrase Charles Babbage, the father of modern computer science: Propose to a player any new game, however ingenious, and you will observe that the whole effort of their mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a Star Wars MMO, he will [...]
Welcome back to Open Tor Policy, ‘Pubs and ‘Perials, Jedi and Sith. Today we’re venturing into the surely contested territory of Star Wars: The Old Republic and its same gender romance arcs (SGRAs), but what’s life without living dangerously? Gender Bender Let me start with a crystal-clear declaration here: I fully support the addition of SGRAs [...]
Yes – I know exactly how it sounds, but I’m actually taking the title at face value and remembering a time when reading the manual of an MMO was, for me, a huge part of its enjoyment. A time when exploration meant something, when secrets lay around every corner and gamers didn’t have everything handed [...]
TORWars Podcast #151: Aren't You the Pretty Kitty?: It's that time of week again, my fellow galactic travelers! That's right, I'm talking about TORWars ...
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