The Bearded Trio

Fancy playing an open world AAA Star Wars video game in the same style as Mass Effect or Fallout 4?  Imagine how awesome that would be?  Well, that might just be what's in the works at EA.  We know this due to a recently discovered job advert on their website.  The job listing , discovered by GameSpot  opens with the words "Lead a team to deliver Online features for a Star Wars Open World project." EA own the rights to Star Wars at this time and their recent track record hasn't done themselves any favours with gamers.  Star Wars Battlefront II was weighed down with micro transactions which were not just cosmetic but important for progression in the game.  Past Star Wars games have also been announced only to be cancelled months later.  For those two reasons I'm not going to get too excited over this recent news.  I don't want to see my heart broken, not again.  Not after Lucasarts' 1313.  I can't go through that kind of br...

The Old Republic continues to stay afloat with over 1M monthly players The Star Wars MMO from Lucasarts and Bioware still draws in over 1 million players, EA announced following the game's appearance during a press event attended by Polygon. In 2012 EA adopted the popular free-to-play model which really helped the game after a less than stellar opening.  EA's Frank Gibeau said the game has grown significantly. "Since it was induced in November, we've added more than 1.7 million new players on the free model to the service," Gibeau said at the time. "And the number of subscriptions has stabilized at just under half a million. "The really interesting thing that's happening inside the service right now is monthly average revenue for the game has more than doubled since we introduced the free-to-play option. And as we look forward, we're going to continually invest in new content for the service and for players every six weeks or so."...

Games giant Electronic Art has confirmed that will offer a first look at its Strategy for Star Wars during its E3 press conference which will take place from June 10th. EA labels president Frank Gibeau confirmed that the press conference will include ”a first look at our plans for the Star Wars partnership with Disney.” Last month it was confirmed by Disney that EA signed a multi-year licence deal for the rights to produce Star Wars games. We will keep you posted.  Rob