Star Wars The Old Republic News

Star Wars The Old Republic joins the sci-fi community once again in celebrating May the Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars Day, with free droids for everyone! This year also happens to mark the 25th year since Episode I: The Phantom Menace first came out and Broadsword didn’t pass up the opportunity to give a nod to the first of the prequel [...]

If the 17th century pirate experience isn’t for you, then maybe being a Jedi space pirate is more to your liking. Star Wars The Old Republic is giving players a taste of the outlaw life, or at least dress up as one as Season 5: Pirate’s Plunder officially begins. The new PvP season brings with it a collection of new [...]

Kessan’s Landing is officially open for business as Update 7.4: Chains in the Dark goes live in Star Wars The Old Republic. The update ushers in a new chapter in the Star Wars MMORPG’s narrative and adds new daily missions in the new landing zone at Ord Mantell, as well as a new world boss in the form of the [...]

Star Wars The Old Republic players will be making their way back to Ord Mantell in a few short days as Broadsword Entertainment prepares to roll out Update 7.4: Chains in the Dark on December 5th. Chains in the Dark will introduce a new daily area on the planet called Kessan’s Landing that will also feature new repeatable content, new [...]

Star Wars The Old Republic will be expanding its servers to include the Asia-Pacific later today to cater to those living in Australia and surrounding regions. The new cloud server, called Shae Vizla, will be hosted in Sydney and will be coming online 11 a.m. PST on November 16th for subscribers and to free-to-play players 24 hours later. “We have [...]

Broadsword Online Games has unveiled Star Wars The Old Republic’s next major update and the first one since the studio took over development responsibilities for the Star Wars MMORPG earlier this year. Version 7.4: Chains in the Dark will pick up where the narrative left off in Version 7.2: Showdown on Ruhnuk and will send players off to Kessan’s Landing [...]

Get your running shoes on, or boots, or whatever it is that characters in Star Wars The Old Republic wear because you can now sprint in the game right out of the character creation screen. Yesterday’s Update 7.3.1b finally removed the level requirement to unlock the sprint ability. Previously, you had to wait until level 10 before you can run [...]

Broadsword Online Games continues its efforts to migrate the Star Wars The Old Republic servers to the cloud which started with the Leviathan server earlier this month. The studio is now preparing to transport the Tulak Hord and Darth Malgus servers up into the digital clouds. The transfer is scheduled to begin on August 30th at 5 a.m. PDT with [...]

BioWare is keeping Star Wars The Old Republic players busy this month as it brings back the Rakghoul Resurgence and Relics of the Gree events while they work on transferring the game over to Broadsword. Rakghoul Resurgence is set to go live on August 8th and will run until August 14th. This time around, it’s the planet of Corellia’s turn [...]