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- 18 July 2008: KoTOR MMO confirmed by EA Boss!
- In an interview with Portfolio.com, John Riccitiello of Electronic Arts, “may” have spilled the beans on the new Bioware MMO being published by EA as Knights of the Old Republic. The article quotes Riccitiello as saying: We’ve got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development,” said Riccitiello. The first title, based on [...]
- 8 June 2008: Ex-Lucasarts Employee claims BioWare MMO is Kotor3
- According to some recently laid-off Lucasarts Employee(s), BioWare’s top-secret MMO project is KotOR 3: “We’ve continued to receive e-mails throughout the day from folks who it seems are now formerly in the employ of Lucasarts, telling us this and that about the circumstances behind their departure from the company … Some of the titles they report [...]
- 26 January 2008: BioWare conducting market research on MMO
- Rumor has it, that BioWare is secretly preparing to conduct an extensive market research study on their upcoming MMO. Supposedly, the studio is currently looking for volunteers within certain internal channels that meet the following criteria: Aren’t affiliated in any way with the fields of advertising, journalism (d’oh!), public relations, video game hardware or software developers, [...]
- 18 December 2007: QA for the BioWare MMO: We don’t need monkeys
- At the recent Independent Game Conference in Austin, BioWare’s Brian Dubose talked about quality assurance, why it’s important — and what it really means. “It’s not monkeys at a keyboard,” warned Dubose. Discussing the QA experience specific to BioWare, Dubose revealed an interesting peek into the process there, especially in light of the recent acquisition by [...]
- 29 November 2007: BioWare likes WoW but wants to improve it
- In a recent Interview with GameInformer, BioWare’s President Greg Zeschuk and CEO Ray Muzyka admitted to be avid WoW Players and fans of the game but they also stated that they find some aspects of the game too tedious and time consuming and hope that BioWare can do better. “it’s almost like having another job.” They [...]
- 31 October 2007: More evidence for KotOR MMO
- Since December 2005, BioWare has been cranking away at a mysterious MMO down in Austin, Texas. Sony Online Entertainment, the folks behind Star Wars Galaxies, are located in Austin, as well, and BioWare confirmed to us almost a year ago an unspecified number of SOE employees migrated to BioWare when they moved into the area. [...]
- 30 October 2007: BioWare’s Upcoming MMO Based in KOTOR Universe
- A source close to BioWare confirmed to us today that the studio’s upcoming untitled massively-multiplayer online RPG will be centered around the Star Wars universe, specifically that of Knights of the Old Republic, which the developer released in 2003. The game garnered critical acclaim and spawned a less-popular sequel, released by Obsidian two years later. [...]
- 30 October 2007: Bioware and Lucasarts together working on a product
- Today, BioWare and LucasArts issued a press release announcing the two are collaborating on a “ground-breaking interactive entertainment product.” The release promises more information is coming at a “later date,” though everything point to the long-hinted-at Star Wars MMO. [Source].
- 8 August 2007: BioWare adopts Stream Processing Engine
- BioWare has licensed StreamBase’s Stream Processing Engine for use in it’s unannounced MMO. StreamBase has previously provided Complex Event Processing software to financial institutions as well as the government and military sectors. Complex event processing, is a new technology where a software system supervises events streaming through the enterprise’s software infrastructure. Complex event processing has also [...]
- 12 June 2007: Bioware MMO slated for release in 2009
- In an interview with Information with Information Week regarding their use of StreamBase Stream Processor Engine, technical director Bill Dalton said that the game (KotOR Online?) is due out in 2009. [Source]
