Yesterday, The Old Republic came down for its weekly Tuesday morning maintenance and with it came a small patch that caused the first major player revolt in the game's short life. The patch was mainly for minor bug fixes, but it included a major nerf to a crew skill that was so overpowered that nearly everyone was using and abusing it to amass huge amounts of credits.The slicing skill allows ... more.

I really wish we were joking about this, but we're not. BioWare has teased the first big content patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic by releasing one image from the expanded Karagga’s Palace operation that will be added next month. At first, the image doesn't look too exciting as TOR is filled with giant robot bosses you have to de... more.

Just before the game launched, an analyst estimated that The Old Republic may have upwards of 1.5 million players already in the game. Now that the game launched, EA has confirmed that there are 1 million people playing the game and according to them that makes it the fastest growing subscription MMO i... more.

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The other day, EA released some images of the Jedi vs Sith "freeze mob" they pulled off in Times Square for the release of The Old Republic. Today a video of the event was released, and you get a really good look at both the Jedi and Sith costumes they created for the big night.The Darth Malgus is particularly good, ... more.

When Star Wars Galaxies was shut down last week, there was a promise of a "memory book" coming soon. No one really knew what it would be, and today they posted the massive tome in the form of a 200MB PDF on what remains of the game's offic... more.

In a really good retrospective on Star Wars Galaxies over at Industry Gamers, SOE's overlord John Smedley expressed regrets about some of the decisions that were made in the course of the game's life. In addition to saying that if he were to do it all over again he would have delayed the game a ... more.

So we've seen a full Star Wars sleeve tattooed on a young lady's arm before, but I hadn't seen someone tat their entire back until now.  The ink is strong with this one.... more.

With Star Wars: The Old Republic officially available to everyone now, BioWare has created a short documentary about the game. Where Blizzard puts a "making of" DVD in their WoW Collector's Editions, BioWare didn't do that with The Old Republic; so this little promotional piece is probably the closest we're going to get.It runs eigh... more.

Happy Hanukkah to everyone who started celebrating it this week! It doesn't matter what holiday you're celebrating, you can always throw a little Star Wars into it!... more.